National Enterprise Architecture is the national reference for implementing enterprise architecture in the government sector through unified national practices, standards, methodologies, and controls to support the digital transformation in government entities in order to reach an integrated smart government with a unified national vision, putting the citizens first. It includes practices and controls for implementing the government agency’s vision and strategy by making the necessary changes to align the business (Processes and Services) with the information technology (applications, data, and technology). National EA provides models, standards, and guidelines manuals to enhance the implementation and practicing of the enterprise architecture and accelerate digital transformation to achieve the vision's objectives.

The government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia paid great attention to the national enterprise architecture practices, as it issued the national enterprise architecture framework (NORA) and the framework for measuring the maturity of enterprise architecture practices (SEAM) in 2015 and continued to continuously improve this framework according to a precise mechanism that studies the extent of adopting national enterprise architecture practices and finding opportunities for improvement, ending in 2022, when Issuance of the regulatory framework for digital government by the Authority.