Designing enterprise architecture for sustainable development

The statement was made at the E-Commerce Forum 2011 entitled ‘Restructuring through building enterprise architecture’ held by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Hanoi on November 17.

Enterprise architecture features the ties between information technology structures and service systems, according to Deputy Minister Tuan Anh.

The director of the Vietnam E-Commerce and Information Technology Agency, Tran Huu Linh, said enterprise architecture serves as a tool for decision making, and building it helps economise on investment costs.

At the forum, information technology experts also focused their discussions on the role of enterprise architecture in devising business strategies in the 2011-2015 period. They believed that groups, corporations, commercial banks and businesses should take the lead in this work.