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VerifiedIntroduction to Applying the ADMYour role is to act as a consultant to the Lead Enterprise Architect for an international supplier of engineering services and automated manufacturing systems. It has three manufacturing plants where it assembles both standard and customized products for industrial production automation. Each of these plants has been running its own planning and production scheduling systems, along with applications and control systems that drive the automated production line.
The Enterprise Architecture department has been in operation for several years and has mature, well-developed architecture governance and development processes based on the TOGAF Standard. The CIO sponsors the Enterprise Architecture.
During a recent management meeting, a senior Vice-President referred to an interview in which a competitor company's CIO was reported as saying that their production efficiency had been improved by replacing multiple planning and scheduling systems with a common Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system located in a central data center. Some discussion followed, and the CIO responded that the situations are not comparable and that the current architecture is already optimized.
In response, the Architecture Board approved a Request for Architecture Work covering the investigations needed to determine whether such an architecture transformation would result in efficiency improvements. You have been assigned to support the architecture team working on this project.
A well-known concern of the plant managers is the security and reliability of driving their planning and production scheduling from a remote centralized system. Any chosen system would also need to support the current supply chain network consisting of local partners at each of the plants.
You have been asked to describe how you will initiate the architecture project.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, which of the following is the best answer?
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