A business, company, or comparable organization
Entrepreneurship, the practice of starting new organizations, particularly new businesses
Enterprise for High School Students, a non-profit organization
Enterprise Rent-A-Car, a car-rental agency
Enterprise Asia, a regional NGO for the development of entrepreneurship, based in Kuala Lumpur
Enterprize Canada, a Canadian student-run entrepreneurial business plan competition and conference
Enterprise Plc, a civil engineering and maintenance company in the United Kingdom
Farm enterprise, a component of a farm business; a farm may for example include an arable enterprise and a dairy enterprise
Free enterprise, a type of economy; a loose synonym for implemented capitalism
Enterprise, an informal name for STTGI (Stanford Technology Trading Group International), a U.S. weapons-dealing company involved in the Iran-Contra Affair
Subud Enterprise Services, any entrepreneurial activity undertaken by a member of the spiritual organization Subud
Enterprise architecture is either 1: documentation describing the structure and behaviour of an enterprise and its information systems, usually in a number of architecture domains. Or 2: a process for describing an enterprise and its information systems and planning changes to improve the integrity and flexibility of the enterprise.
It is the highest level, widest scope, longest term kind of architecture related to how information systems support the business processes of an enterprise. Thus, it is distinguishable from solution architecture and software architecture or enterprise application architecture, though it shares some general principles and techniques with architecture at those lower levels.
It describes the logical organisation of business processes and IT infrastructure. It reflects the integration and standardization requirements of the firm's operating model.[1] Practitioners are called "enterprise architects". The primary purpose of creating an enterprise architecture is to ensure that business strategy and IT investments are aligned. As such, enterprise architecture allows traceability from the business strategy down to the underlying technology.
The general practice has gradually come to include a broad category of activities that help decision makers to understand, justify, optimize and communicate the structure and relationships between various business entities and elements. Among these latter practices are business architecture, performance management, organizational structure and process architecture.
Modelling the architecture of enterprises is becoming a common practice within the U.S. Federal Government in the context of the Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process. The Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) reference models serve as a framework to guide Federal agencies in the development of their architectures. Companies such as BP, Independence Blue Cross, Intel and Volkswagen AG[2] have also applied enterprise architecture to improve their business architectures as well as to improve business performance and productivity.
