Building great IT architecture takes time and planning. By assessing what is already in place, then visualizing what it should be, one can make great enterprise architecture a reality. To achieve the dream architecture, learn what to build, how to build it, and what to build it on in this paper. In this paper, learn what to build and how to build it. Let's assume that as the IT architect, one is not lucky enough to work in a clean environment - a place in which one gets to build the enterprise IT architecture from scratch. Like most IT architects, one will be building around a current environment in which good intentions stopped short of being perfect.
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