Facilitating Regulatory Compliance by Adopting a Model-Driven Approach to Enterprise Architecture

Given the current legislative and regulatory environment that includes the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on financial practices and corporate governance, Basel II on banking laws and regulations, the Patriot Act on communications and financial transactions, and other laws that include provisions for financial and legal sanctions, becoming and remaining regulatory compliant has become a high-level organizational priority. Enterprise architecture brings together visualization of an organization's goals, strategies, processes, information and technology; documentation of systems and data sources; integration of models and processes; and collaboration or information-sharing across corporate entities at the enterprise level.