A Method for Enterprise Architecture Alignment

Clark, Tony; Barn, Balbir; Oussena, Samia

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31134-5_3

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“…Clark et al proposed a light-weight method for EA alignment based on the LEAP executable language [7], [34]. Compared with ArchiMate, LEAP concepts gather several ArchiMate concepts, it appears to be more general, and looks like Architectural Description Languages (ADL) despite it is mentioned it is not an ADL.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Modelling languages such as ArchiMate have been proposed [3] to enable the specification of architectures from business goal to technology infrastructure. However, effective technologies and tool support are still missing [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], especially when considering legacy systems with a bottom-up approach [10]. EA cannot start from scratch, a method is needed to integrate existing information and build the current state (as-is) of a business [7].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These maintenance activities are very expensive, especially if they do not boost the business. But, while numerous contributions emerged to answer the Business-IT alignment problem [5], [7], [8], assisting the maintenance of legacy systems is still challenging [9]. For instance, mastering the evolution of information systems (IS) according to an EA approach requires:…”

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confidence: 99%

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An Improved Model Facet Method to Support EA Alignment

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André²,

Attiogbé³

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Abstract. Information System evolution requires a well-structured Enterprise Architecture and its rigorous management. The alignment of the elements in the architecture according to various abstraction layers may contribute to the management but appropriate tools are needed. We propose improvements to the Facet technique and we develop accompanying tools to master the difficulties of the alignment of the models used to structure an Enterprise Architecture. This technique has been experimented on many real life cases to demonstrate the effectiveness of our EA alignment method. The tools are already integrated in the Eclipse EMF Facet project.

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Section: Related Work and Discussionmentioning

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An Improved Model Facet Method to Support EA Alignment

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“…For example, outsourcing any operation needs to be done in a business context of strategy and goals of an organisation. Our previous work provides an indication of such a direction of travel [11].…”

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“…The language LEAP and its associated toolset [9,2,11,10,8] has been developed to support the design, analysis and simulation of component-based systems. The LEAP approach aims to reduce such systems to a small number of orthogonal features.…”

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Outsourcing service provision through step-wise transformation

Clark

Barn

2014

Proceedings of the 7th India Software Engineering Conference

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Component-based development principles promise a flexible approach to system design and implementation. In particular service-based techniques provide a computational model whereby the physical location of components makes no difference to the overall system behaviour. Economic business models for organisations have led to outsourced services as an attractive way of reducing costs and allowing a business to focus on its key processes. In the context of business and IT alignment, this raises a problem of how to transform an organization and its enterprise systems so that it can take advantage of an external service, given that in most cases the existing processes will be embedded in many places across the organisation. This paper addresses this problem by proposing a simple component-based simulation language together with transformation rules that can be used to incrementally isolate a service as an external component.

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