A comprehensive framework used to manage and align an organization's business processes, resources, operations and projects with the organization's overall business strategy. The alignment of business architecture and IT-architecture is seen as a main challenge for leveraging the performance of information technology.

• BPM institute

• IBM: SOA design & development (http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/developer/solutions/soadev/webserv.jsp)

• Ulrich Homann : A Business-Oriented Foundation for Service Orientation (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa479368.aspx)
• Ulrich Homann, Jon Tobey: From Capabilities to Services : Moving from a Business Architecture to an IT Implementation (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479075.aspx)
• Ulrich Homann : Connecting Business and IT(http://www.event-team.com/events/AF05/Nachlese/Ulrich%20Homann%20-%20Connecting%20Business%20and%20IT.ppt)
• Ulrich Homann: Capability-oriented Modeling of the Firm (http://www.is-frankfurt.de/publikationenNeu/CapabilityorientedModelingoft1256.pdf).
• Ric Merrifield and Jon Tobey: Motion Lite: A Rapid Application of the Business Architecture Techniques Used by Microsoft Motion

(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479343.aspx)