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Enterprise architecture (EA) is "a well-defined practice for conducting enterprise analysis, design, planning, and implementation, using a holistic approach at all times, for the successful development and execution of strategy.

Enterprise architecture applies architecture principles and practices to guide organizations through the business, information, process, and technology changes necessary to execute their strategies.

These practices utilize the various aspects of an enterprise to identify, motivate, and achieve these changes.".

SOA governance is a concept used for activities related to exercising control over services in service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions.

One viewpoint, from IBM and others, is that SOA governance is an extension (subset) of IT governance which itself is an extension of corporate governance.

The implicit assumption in this view is that services created as part of SOA solutions are just one more type of IT asset in need of governance, with the corollary that SOA governance does not apply to IT assets that are "not SOA".

A contrasting viewpoint, expressed by blogger Dave Oliver and others, is that service orientation provides a broad organising principle for all aspects of IT in an organisation — including IT governance.

Hence SOA governance is nothing but IT governance informed by SOA principles.

Cloud computing is a type of Internet-based computing that provides shared computer processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand.

It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., computer networks, servers, storage, applications and services), which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort.

Cloud computing and storage solutions provide users and enterprises with various capabilities to store and process their data in either privately owned, or third-party data centers that may be located far from the user–ranging in distance from across a city to across the world.

Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economy of scale, similar to a utility (like the electricity grid) over an electricity network.

The term "Intelligent Enterprise" refers to a management approach that applies technology and new service paradigms to the challenge of improving business performance.

The concept, as articulated in James Brian Quinn's seminal book Intelligent Enterprise (Free Press, 1992) posits that intellect is the core resource in producing and delivering services.

The book describes the management approach and computing infrastructure needed to harness that intellect effectively.

This approach is referred to in business jargon as Knowledge Management, of which Quinn is an important proponent.

Quinn is the William and Josephine Buchanan Professor of Management at the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College.

Business Intelligence (BI) are the set of strategies, processes, applications, data, technologies and technical architectures which are used to support the collection, analysis, presentation and dissemination of business information.

BI technologies provide historical, current and predictive views of business operations.

Common functions of business intelligence technologies are reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, process mining, complex event processing, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics and are capable of handling large amounts of structured and sometimes unstructured data to help identify, develop and otherwise create new strategic business opportunities.

The goal is to allow for the easy interpretation of these big data.

Identifying new opportunities and implementing an effective strategy based on insights can provide businesses with a competitive market advantage and long-term stability.