Enterprise architecture (EA) efforts focus on business

technology

data

and application architecture

and their integration. However

less attention has been given to one of the most critical EA elements

i.e.

users (EA audiences). As a result

existing EA management systems (EAMS) have become old

large

content-centric document-repositories that are unable to provide meaningful information of use to the enterprise users and aligned with their needs and functional scope. We argue that a semantic technology based mechanism focusing on enterprise information and user-centricity has the potential to solve this problem. In this context

we present a novel ontology-based strategy named the user-centric semantics-oriented EA (U-SEA) model. Based on this model

we have developed a user-centric semantics-oriented enterprise architecture management (U-SEAM) system. Our approach is generic enough to be used in a wide variety of user-centric EAM applications. The results obtained show computational feasibility to integrate and govern enterprise information and to reduce complexity with respect to interoperability between enterprise information and users.