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How can enterprise architecture impact digital transformation? Choose a specific industry in which to frame your answer.

Digital transformation is to use modern IT technology to rebuild the businesses such as the operation process, business model, and customer experience. For example, a beer company just put their product in the liquor store, restaurant, and night bar. The factory supplies product to the dealer than to the customer. This is a traditional business model. The digital transformation can change them more efficiently and bring more benefits to the beer company. The bear company can use data to change their sale strategy agilely. They can analyze the sales data to sell different products to different areas with unique customer habits. Usually, the digital transformation for the traditional business is difficult. The digital transformation needs a more complicated IT structure, higher technology, and operation process. At this moment, enterprise architecture can help companies to finish their digital transformation.

The enterprise architecture is a bridge that connects the business and IT. When the business depends on IT, the whole company needs a unified language to analyze and solve problems. The enterprise architecture can give them a bigger view of the problem. The enterprise architecture includes data architecture, technical architecture, application architecture, and solution architecture. Those architectures combine the business to the IT level. It makes every part of the company connect to the IT, so the whole business will have a digital transformation.