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The most striking difference between EA in 2000 and in 2010 is how EA touches, and is touched by, so many other factors both inside and outside of traditional IT scope. EA in 2000 was about establishing connections between applications that needed to communicate. It was purely internal to IT and was about the technologies required for these connections. EA in 2010 is about integrating all the capabilities required to deliver business capabilities. It is still an IT function, but it is reaching out to the business, focusing on use cases derived from business process models. EA in 2020 should be jointly owned by the business and IT and involved in many non-IT decisions, such as acquisitions, sourcing, or reorganizations.

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