Enterprise Architecture within Government of Rwanda

Enterprise architecture is not widely applied within the government of Rwanda. The government has, however, recognised the need to not only introduce the practice across all entities, but also ensure its application with the end goal of bringing alignment and integration across all entities.

To achieve this, the government through Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA) has procured Sparx Enterprise Architect as a CASE tool for documenting architecture artefacts across all government entities. The rationale behind the use of a CASE tool such as Sparx Enterprise Architect is to make use of its shared objective repository that does not only allow for concurrent users to share the objects but also removes the risk of creating redundancies. In addition, the features in Sparx Enterprise Architect allow for impact assessment before changes are made in an environment.