Author: Félix Sánchez Puchol
Programme: Doctoral Programme in Network and Information Technologies
Idioma: English
Supervision: Dr Joan Antoni Pastor Collado & Dr Josep Casanova Garcia

Faculty / Institute: Doctoral School UOC
Subjects: Computer Science
Key words: enterprise architecture, enterprise reference architecture, higher education institutions, design science research

Area of knowledge: Network and Information Technologies

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Summary

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is currently accepted as one on the major instruments for enabling organisations in their transformation processes to achieve business-technology alignment. Despite that over the last years EA has been successfully adopted in many industries, Higher Education still represents one of the sectors with lower levels of adoption and maturity of EA practices. The present thesis puts the emphasis particularly on the study Enterprise Reference Architectures (ERAs), as a particular type of EA artefact, in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). After formally clarifying the concept of ERAs and giving a panoramic view of the current state-of-the-art of existing HEI-oriented ERAs, the thesis proposes an artefact framework build through a Design Science Research (DSR) approach aimed to facilitate practitioners their (re-)use or application in their own real practical settings. The purpose of the constructed artefact is to support practitioners when conducting the necessary adjustments to exiting HEI-oriented ERAs in order to be successfully applied for their specific needs.