Guide the success of Enterprise Architecture efforts by increasing business and government leaders' understanding of the fundamental process interaction between 'enterprise views' within a Web services technology networked business enterprise.

Provide a 'pluggable', easy to understand EA, SOA and BPM foundation reference architecture for construction, administration, management and sustainment of complex composite software or Service-Oriented Business Applications.

Harvest any domain-driven SME process knowledge and services management activites as strategic assets for any successful Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM), Business Process Management (BPM), and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiatives where all share an integrated and federated 'enteprise view' of the enterprise metadata repository (library) of domain-driven expertise.

Educate Corporate Executives, Chief Architects, Business Analysts, IT Systems Architects and Operations, from each enterprise view, to colloborate, at some role level of EA skills set, within an EA, BPM, SOA management discipline, to succeed.

The Fractal-EA Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture chart is populated with 'best in class' examples of products, approaches, methodologies, best practices, principles, etc. from vendors, domains, missions, etc. The challenge will be to make the chart your own guide on the path toward a Service-Oriented Enterprise.

Analogies are good things if they bring more meaning to complex topics. Many of the analogies supplied in this space have been likened to activities as a general contractor in home construction, lego building blocks, laundry services, city planning and of course cooking or baking. All would be equally correct because they demand proper application of a wide variety of sources or pieces of the puzzle to come together at the right place and at the right time for the desired outcome.

Fundamental (ingredients) of the Foundation: