The Zachman framework was published by John Zachman for EA in 1987. Zachman was motivated by increased levels of complexity involved in the design of information systems, which forced him to think of a logical construct for designing the architecture of enterprises, which in turn led to the development of the Zachman framework for enterprise architecture. The framework does not focus much on providing any form of guidance on sequence, process, or implementation. The core focus is to ensure that all views are well established, ensuring a complete system regardless of the order in which they were established. The Zachman framework does not have any explicit compliance rules as it does not belong to the category of a standard written by a professional organization.

The Zachman framework was initially developed for IBM but now has been...