Enterprise architecture is about aligning the business with the information technology environment resulting in organisations being able to make informed decisions. The South African market, although immature, has realised the benefits of adopting enterprise architecture and as a result has experienced considerable growth in recent years. The market is driving exponential demand for skilled EAs and this has led to a great demand for training in the frameworks such as Togaf, Fsam, Feaf, Dodaf to assure a standardised or at least governed approach to the business of architecting the enterprise.
EA certification is striving to fill the gap. Chartered IT professionals aspiring towards an EA role requires knowledge that differentiates IT from an EA architect such as an EA framework, metamodel, method and business concepts as value chains, business models, business process maps.
Does all training and certification provide the enterprise architect with a practical framework to design or lead the implementation of an enterprise architecture? Most probably not, since it is not an objective of certification to design an EA framework, but to teach and explain the existing ones.
If such an EA framework is not provided in the training and certification, then there is no guarantee the architect will have the ability to deliver an enterprise architecture. Certified training providers can provide this framework and methodology only when they are accredited by the international leading authorities in this field and specialise in enterprise architecture - choose your training provider with care!
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