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Enterprise Architecture
One of the pillars of Entelyst’s “Green Enterprise” vision, Enterprise architecture (EA) is becoming a common practice within all the enterprises today to improve business architectures, manage complexity, manage change, capture knowledge, as well as to improve business performance and productivity. Enterprise Architecture grants enterprise the ability to support decision making in changing businesses. Because Enterprise Architecture brings together business models (e.g. process
models, organizational charts, etc.) and technical models (e.g. systems architectures, data models, state diagrams, etc.) it is possible to trace the impact of organizational change on the systems, and also the business impact of changes to the systems.
"The leaders of the organization must have a clear vision of the desired future state of the entire system, including such dimensions as its business, its organization and its ways of working. This vision must be used as a common context both for diagnosing the needs for changes and for managing the process of change, so that it acts as an integrating force for the multitude of apparently disparate changes to be made. The plan for making changes must be an integrated one." (Beckhard
and Pritchard, 1992)
In a large modern enterprise, a rigorously defined framework is necessary to be able to capture a vision of the "entire system" in all its dimensions and complexity. A well developed EA framework is able to coordinate the many facets that make up the fundamental essence of an enterprise. It is the master plan which "acts as an integrating force" between aspects of business planning such as goals, visions, strategies and governance principles; aspects of business operations such as business
terms, organization structures, processes and data; aspects of automation such as application systems and databases; and the enabling technological infrastructure of the business such as computers, operating systems and networks.
The focus of enterprise architecture efforts is now shifting to become more holistic, thereby necessitating the use of comprehensive modeling tools to analyze and optimize the portfolio of business strategies, organizational structures, business processes/tasks and activities, information flows, applications, and technology infrastructure to support the development, storage, presentation and enhancement of enterprise architecture representations.
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ENTELYST SERVICES
 In its simplest terms, enterprise architecture is the process of aligning a business's strategic vision with its information technology. It connects different business units for synergistic communication and collaboration, creating a more seamless customer (or end-user) experience. The enterprise architect, of course, is instrumental in this process. 
Entelyst is focused to map, define and standardize the following technology areas:
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Business Architecture