Top 25 Enterprise Architecture KPIs of 2011-2012

In recent years, it has become apparent that a key benefit to be gained from enterprise architecture is the ability to support decision making in changing businesses.

The Top 25 Enterprise Architecture KPIs of 2011 - 2012 report contains a thorough analysis on the most popular enterprise architecture KPIs in 2011-2012, selected by the number of views they received from the smartKPIs.com community.

About Enterprise Architecture as an Industry

Enterprise Architecture sustains the organization to establish a decision framework that enables its various parts to articulate how information and technology can be used in the context of business strategy. KPIs refer to the role Enterprise Architecture plays in business development and the business methods used for assuring the organization's structure and processes are connected to the strategic objectives.

Enterprise Architecture sub-categories on smartKPIs.com are:

• Information Architecture
• SOA
• Enterprise Arhitecture Compliance
• Enterprise Arhitecture Costs
• Business Planning
• IT Reliability

Highlights from the report

Top 25 Enterprise Architecture KPIs of 2011-2012 offers an overview of the most popular KPIs for enterprise architecture as an industry, by combining input from the smartKPIs.com community with research and analysis from the editorial team. Some of the main sections are:

• "KPIs ... Naturally", an article that sets the context through a discussion on what is old and what is new in the use of KPIs;

• An introduction to the custom KPI documentation form developed by the smartKPIs.com research team for documenting KPIs (with over 30 fields of data, making this the most thorough KPI documentation template in use today);

• A list with the names of the Top 25 Enterprise Architecture KPI examples in 2011-2012 on smartKPIs.com;

• Among the most popular 25 KPI examples for IT in 2011-2012, top 3 is made of:
• # System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) exceptions granted
• # Enterprise applications used per employee
• # Frequency of IT governance as an agenda item in the IT board meetings

• A detailed description of each KPI listed in the report, as documented in smartKPIs Premium (the premium content section of smartKPIs.com);

• Comprehensive insights on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as performance measurement tools and a glossary explaining the most popular terms characterizing KPIs.