Enterprise Architecture Frameworks for Higher Education Industry

Abstract

The digitalization of the universities is one of the great challenges of the Ecuadorian university at present. The search of the quality in the higher education implies the achievement of transformations from the strategic perspective. For that reason, the CIOs must be prepared to take part to the decision-making team, which understands the business needs, proposes technological solutions that guarantee the generation of value.Over time, the lack of understanding of the needs of stakeholders, has led them to propose isolated and disconnected solutions, which have addressed the problems without doing a causal analysis. The present work seeks to motivate to CIOs of the higher education institutions of Ecuador to implement business architecture to propose strategic solutions and address the problems of the universities in an integral manner, articulating the strategic components of the business, Applications, data and technology through business architecture. The proposal from the TOGAF reference framework and its ADM methodology is add a list of reference frameworks, models, standards and good practices aligned to higher education. These referents should be adopt depending on the context the need of each institution in the environment in which they are applied. It is worth mentioning that in this work other tools and methods of the frame of reference have been omit, which should be adopt in the exercise of the business architecture.