Framework to Develop a Business Synergy through Enterprise Architecture

New enterprises face several challenges in keeping their customers and keeping up with the dynamic growth of services and products. On the other hand, enterprises are generating Petabytes of data and managers don't know how to use this invaluable data. Some big enterprises are growing quickly because of the right use of information as a key factor in their decision-making and market intelligence. Business is developing rapidly and in unpredictably. The rapid evolution of the Internet is opening up opportunities to create new kinds of business like e-business, smart factories, and virtual enterprises (VE). In this context, based on Enterprise Architecture (EA), VE, and synergy in business integration, we propose to develop a research framework, which details the formal process to achieve a fluid business synergy in business collaboration processes. The proposal consists of a conceptual model with three factors: EA, VE, and Synergy in Business Integration and Collaboration (BIC).