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Enterprise architecture includes the following:

1. The structure of the organisation or other entity and its structural description, which are used to develop its activities.
2. The description of how its elements are interconnected and function as a whole. These elements include organisational units and stakeholders, personnel, operating processes, services, data and information systems.
3. A strategic function that supports management that is administered using the enterprise architecture method.

The enterprise architecture framework can help an organisation to:

• Improve its agility
• Facilitate innovation and introduce new technologies
• Optimise processes and services.

The enterprise architecture framework enables your organisation to form a clear overview of the elements of digital security.

The Enterprise Architecture Framework for Suomi.fi Service Developers is a general description of enterprise architecture work, the concepts of which are based on

• industry standards
• industry reference frameworks
• to the glossary prepared by the Architecture Guild of the Digital and Population Data Services Agency.

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For more information on using the Architecture Framework for Suomi.fi Service Developers, see the next section of the guide, Using the enterprise architecture.