An enterprise architecture framework (EA framework) defines how to create and use an enterprise architecture.

Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture, or the Purdue model, is a 1990s reference model for enterprise architecture, developed by Theodore J. Williams and members of the Industry-Purdue University Consortium for Computer Integrated Manufacturing.

A federal enterprise architecture framework is the U.S. reference enterprise architecture of a federal government.

(NIST EA Model) a late-1980s reference model for enterprise architecture.

Enterprise architecture planning in enterprise architecture is the planning process of defining architectures for the use of information in support of the business and the plan for implementing those architectures.