The concept of an Enterprise Information System (EIS) has arisen from the need to deal with the increasingly volatile requirements of modern large-scale organisations. An EIS is a platform capable of supporting and integrating a wide range of activities across an organisation. In principle, the concept is useful and applicable to any large and SMEs, international or national business organisation. However, the range of applications for EIS is growing and they are now being used to support e-government, health care, and non-profit / non-governmental organisations. This chapter reviews research and development efforts related to EIS, and as a result attempts to precisely define the boundaries for the concept of EIS, i.e., identifying what is and what is not an EIS. Based on this domain analysis, a proposal for using goal-oriented modelling techniques for building EIS is constructed; the proposal is made more concrete through illustration via an example.

The concept of an Enterprise Information System (EIS) has arisen from the need to deal with the increasingly volatile requirements of modern large-scale organisations. An EIS is a platform capable of supporting and integrating a wide range of activities across an organisation. In principle, the concept is useful and applicable to any large and SMEs, international or national business organisation. However, the range of applications for EIS is growing and they are now being used to support e-government, health care, and non-profit / non-governmental organisations. This chapter reviews research and development efforts related to EIS, and as a result attempts to precisely define the boundaries for the concept of EIS, i.e., identifying what is and what is not an EIS. Based on this domain analysis, a proposal for using goal-oriented modelling techniques for building EIS is constructed; the proposal is made more concrete through illustration via an example.

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There is increasing demand for approaches to develop more effective enterprise information systems (EIS). A possible solution is to focus on eliciting and elaborating goals prior to capturing EIS requirements. Focusing on EIS goals could help the developer team and other stakeholders (particularly decision makers) achieve a shared and structured understanding of the goals of the EIS and the overall enterprise. We present an investigation of the use of the KAOS approach to goal modelling in the domain of EIS. As a result, we propose a tailoring of KAOS for this domain; the tailoring has been developed through empirical studies. Our tailoring, called KAOS-β, is described, and an empirical evaluation is presented, investigating its applicability for defining and structuring the goals of groups of EIS.

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