The Latin of Enterprise Architecture: The Zachman Framework Is Historically Significant but Rarely Used There’s a faint echo of Max Horkheimer in the Zachman Framework: that if we categorize reality with enough intellectual discipline, the world will finally make sense. The Zachman Framework asserts that the totality of an enterprise can be rigorously divided and expressed through distinct architectural classifications. It asks you to take an unwise intellectual leap and is about as fun to read as a grand theorist’s 900-page dissertation that continually dares the reader to finish it.

The Zachman Framework set out to organize the components of an enterprise into a structured model. It shaped EA as a discipline but mostly lives today just as a polite academic artifact. Here’s the story.

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