Enterprise architecture artifacts, or EA artifacts, are separate documents constituting enterprise architecture.[2] EA artifacts provide descriptions of an organization from different perspectives important for the various actors involved in strategic decision-making and implementation of IT systems. They can be considered as key elements and cornerstones of an EA practice. Essentially, an EA practice revolves around using specific sets of EA artifacts for improving communication between different actors.[3]
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^Abraham, R. (2013) Enterprise Architecture Artifacts as Boundary Objects - A Framework of Properties, In: van Hillegersberg, J., van Heck, E. and Connolly, R. (eds.) Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Information Systems, Utrecht, The Netherlands: Association for Information Systems, pp. 1-12.