Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to provide students with practical experience in working in
teams to write a research report to outline the rationale, challenges and benefits provided to different
businesses by developing enterprise architecture for the specified system. This assessment contributes to
learning outcomes c and d.
Value: Report 20%;
Submission requirements details: All work must be submitted on Moodle by the due date. Reference
sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using
Harvard Anglia referencing style.
Assessment topic: Enterprise Systems and Architecture (ESA) design project
Task Details: Students are required to identify the core processes and design a suitable ESA "blueprint for
a special industry. The assessment should include the use of appropriate framework for developing the
blueprint.
Each student group will have two to three students. Every group should select/prepare a case study on
business type such as:
1. Distribution
2. Professional services
3. Architecture
4.Engineering and Construction
you are allowed to choose any company or any organization................
Student groups are required to check with their lecturer/tutor to get the topic approved to make sure there
is no direct overlap between groups. Once the topic has been approved students should begin the
preliminary work for the assessment. The assessment has two deliverables:
Deliverable 1: Written report (2,500 words)
To design a suitable ESA structure for the chosen organization, the students are required to identify the
core business and support functions: front office and back office systems, core information entities,
transactions and information flows, material and financial systems, support systems for running the
systems and management, external and internal integration.
