Roger Evernden
British businessman
Roger Evernden (born ca. 1954) is a British enterprise architect, musician, composer, and writer. He is a consultant at the Cutter Consortium, known for his contributions to Enterprise Architecture and as author of the Information FrameWork, an enterprise architecture framework presented in 1996 as a more generic alternative to the Zachman Framework. He has given talks on enterprise architecture.
As a musician and composer he is best known for his solo piano albums.
Career
In the late 1980s, Evernden developed Information FrameWork (IFW) to describe an enterprise architect initiative at Westpac. IFW was presented in 1996 as framework for Information management, and more generic alternative to the Zachman Framework. Evernden (1996) explained:
the objectives and scope of IFW are broader than that of the original Zachman framework. IFW is described and compared with the original Zachman structure, showing the evolution, changes, and the rationale behind the changes based on experiences from within the financial services industry.
In a 1996 paper Evernden showed "how the structure of IFW has been populated by industry-wide models and supported by a distinctive methodology.
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