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Evolving the EAM Pattern Language

Since 2008, the documentation of Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) patterns has drawn much interest from the academic as well as industrial community. Nowadays, more and more companies start EAM initiatives and the maturity of some early adopters has reached a high level. Therefore, it is now possible to extend the structure of EAM patterns to reflect and include the growing EAM knowledge in practice. For example, knowledge about typical stakeholders and external influence factors can guide the selection of EAM patterns. In addition, metrics and reports/documents are now commonly used for EAM and can also be included. Furthermore, the problem of collecting data needed to describe an enterprise architecture can also be documented by using the pattern format because practice-proven solutions already exist. Based on questioning 13 different companies new EAM patterns have been identified and documented using the extended structure presented in this article.