A Strategic Enterprise Architecture describes an organization's business model and the technology environment necessary to support it; it outlines the technology standards the enterprise will - and will not - use in achieving its goals; and it provides the framework for categorizing, analyzing, managing, and rationalizing the applications the enterprise employs in enabling its business model and in executing its strategy. Companies with a mature strategic enterprise architecture have documented, fully integrated business and technology architectures that describe the organization and represent the business technology necessary to reach its goals. Standards are enforced intelligently, with reasonable exception processes in place. Finally, there are regimes for ensuring that the organization both knows what business technology assets it has today and those it will have in the future - with a plan for an orderly transition to the future state.
