eGovernment Architecture and

Systems
Objectives
• After completing this unit, you should be able to:
• Understand the role and function of enterprise structure
• Describe the steps and approaches to development of enterprise
architecture
• Describe eGoiv architecture, the role of different eGovernment
components, and their interactions in the architecture
• Distinguish major types of egovernment system and understand their
functionalities
• Identify and explain the main features of different types systems
• Compare the critical differences between the systems, and
• Describe how these system are applied in eGov
Contents
• Enterprise Architecture
• Development of EA
• EA Building Approaches
• Examples of EA
• IT Infrastructure and Architecture
• A Typical eGovernment Architecture
• eGovernment Systems
1. Enterprise Architecture
An Object Architecture : refers to its design , construction, and
orderly arrangement, is fundamental to its existence.
Poor architecture may waste materials and time, or result in poor
outcomes. Ex : poor design and construction of a plane would most
certainly jeopardize its ability to fly without crashing
Enterprise Architecture is large and complex, can be subdivided
into : data architecture, technical architecture, network
architecture, software architecture , and so on

Term of EA rose prominence in 1987 through the Zachman

Framework for Enterprise Architecture, developed by John
Zachman
EA….(2)
• Essentials of EA
• An organizations’s strategy , which describes its mission and expectations
• Information/data resources needed to perform its mission
• Technologies, business function and processes, and the people needed to
perform the mission
• Organizational structure and its physical distribution
• Relationship between the system elements and their environment
/context
• Governance structure, standards, and design principles thet guide and
constrain its development
• Transitional processes for new innovation and additions
• Organization’s future direction
• Right balance between innovation, risk, and cost, and
• Coordination and interface between ICT designers, planners, strategies,
and business designers
EA ….(3)
• Business architecture and IT architecture
• Includes various subcategories : business architecture and IT architecture
• Both of which are closely associated with each other
• Creating IT architecture is a recursive process driven by the business
architecture
• Ensures that both categories are properly linked and meet the
organization’s long term objectives

Business
IT Architecture
ARCHITECTURE
EA ….(4)
• Enterprise architect
The person who develops enterprise architecture is called the
“enterprise architect”
Specific architect are assigned to develop each architecture in EA,
for example :
• Business architect – deals with business model, process, organizational
design
• Service architect – deals with service, data and application
• IT Infrastructure architect – deals physical technology model
2. Development of EA
• EA Frameworks
Performance

Business

Service

Data

Technical
Development of EA …(2)
• Performance expectation
Functioning of any enterprise or organization revolves around its strategic
goals and performance expectations.
• Business architecture
In this level, high-level business model and processes are drawn to describe the
organization’s ability to achieve the performance expectations. Also examines
the relationship among roles, capabilities, and business units and subunits, in
order to achieve the organization’s objectives
• Service architecture
Dividing the organization’s function into services help maintain its distinct
character without affecting the structure of technology, application and data
• Data architecture
All data/information necessary to fulfil the objectives are determined by
examining and identifying the information currently available and assessing
what new information is needed
• Technical architecture
In this step, the operating systems, transaction processors, and networking
devices required to support the applications are worked out in detail.
Question & Answers