Rapid Development of Artificial Intelligence

These days, we are witnessing the rapid development and implementation of artificial intelligence in all areas of human activity. We rightly wonder how the development of artificial intelligence will affect the field of Enterprise Architecture (EA). Two fundamental questions arise:

Will Enterprise Architecture Disappear as a Discipline?

Based on many years of experience in the application of EA, our predictions of this impact will be reduced to the following:

Enterprise Architecture will still be needed

Enterprise Architecture will still be needed, as it represents a theoretical framework (TOGAF) on how to comprehensively describe business and how to make the necessary changes to improve the business. We do not expect a change in the theoretical framework or ADM methodology

Implementation of AI agents.

What will certainly need to be changed are business models, which will now include AI business agents. It will be necessary to update the ArchiMate notation with the concepts that will represent the AI agents and their relationship with other concepts developed so far.

Enterprise Architecture Will Not Disappear

We can conclude that Enterprise Architecture will not disappear, because the need for business design is related to the existence of business itself, regardless of whether it takes place with or without built-in AI agents.

Increasing Degree of Business Automation

The incorporation of artificial intelligence agents into the business will change the capabilities of the company, which will now be improved or in some cases radically changed. Business will experience an increasing degree of automation with less human labour participation, as AI agents will perform it instead of humans.

Will AI Replace Enterprise Architects and Their Tools?

We expect, AI agents to be implemented in Enterprise Architecture tools. We follow the development of Enterprise Architecture tools and it is evident that this trend exists in all companies that produce them.

The More Efficient Work of Enterprise Architects

The implementation of AI agents will enable more efficient work of Enterprise Architects. AI-based automation will enable the creation of business models from text descriptions of models or similar model templates.

Enterprise Architects New Tasks

The task of Enterprise Architects will be definition of a business description for model generation, and to refine the model in those parts that the AI has not modelled well enough. In this way, creating of business models will be much faster and easier. Also, more and more automation of individual activities will be built into the tools as an aid for efficient business modelling.

People Remain the Creators of New Ideas

What still remains in the human domain is the creation of ideas for changing or transforming the business. Artificial intelligence in some near future will be able to create proposals for business transformation ideas based on the models that exist, but for the creation of completely new ideas, people will still be the only ones who will define them.

Enterprise Architects and their cognitive abilities will continue to be the most important resource for the execution of business modelling tasks and creating ideas for transformation, now and in the future, regardless of the stages of development of artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence Will Not Replace Enterprise Architects

We can conclude that artificial intelligence will not replace Enterprise Architects, but that it will improve design tools, what will have high impact on reducing a time for design and realization of business transformation projects.