Dr. Volker Barent

Effective Enterprise Architecture – An Important Building Block for Corporate Success

We look ahead to 2026: The manufacturing company has had two difficult years: Markets and customers changed rapidly, acquisitions and sales brought a lot of disruption, and IT lagged behind. But the difficult years were used for complete digitization. In development, marketing, sales and service, the teams now work seamlessly together and adapt flexibly to market changes. The introduction of an enterprise architecture (EA) played a decisive role in this, as it was the only way to seamlessly connect business and IT. This helped to adapt the corporate strategy and thus made a decisive contribution to digitalization. In this special, we’ll use best practices, trends, and real-world examples to show you how to prepare your business with EA to increase agility, reduce costs, and improve business and IT integration by 2026.