ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a set of standard tools that are available to anyone designing an enterprise architecture/enterprise geographic information system. The “tools” covered are Business on a Page that encourages brainstorming sessions for sketching out an early vision of the system. A workflow model can be beneficial in determining potential areas for bottlenecks, duplicate effort, or redundancies that might lead to or cause work interruptions, delays, or stoppages. Unified Modeling Language (UML) was developed by the Object Management Group as a method to standardize complex modeling systems. UML activity charts do a nice job of displaying how information travels through a system. The present state or current state model will provide a snapshot of what the system’s status. The Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats analysis determines what the main strengths and weaknesses of businesses are; it also predicts what threats could hurt the company and where opportunities exist in the markets.
