Enterprise Architecture Development Based on Enterprise Ontology

Rajabi, Zeinab; Minaei, Behrouz; Seyyedi, Mir Ali

doi:10.4067/s0718-18762013000200007

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“…J. Zachman himself adapted his framework several times to the developing IT (Information Technology) industry, and today it is considered a kind of reference concept harmonizing information technology and business needs [27,28]. At the same time, a number of experts, including J. Zachman, tend to consider this as a framework rather than an ontology [29,30]. In Zachman's modern view, his framework is a kind of Mendeleev's Table [31], which helps "assemble" "elementary particles" by means of certain processes in certain combinations into the required results.…”

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Development of Transportation Management System with the Use of Ontological and Architectural Approaches to Ensure Trucking Reliability

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With the wide variety of information systems and applications for motor transport and transport logistics control we have today, one may think we are already living in the digital era of general welfare, and digital tools would easily ensure sustainable development and prosperity of businesses. However, the experience of deployment and introduction of such solutions shows that their value for transport business is significantly lower than expected. Moreover, in some projects, business performance of transport companies had no correlation with introduction of information systems. In the best-case scenario, they provided for a slight decrease in document flow transaction costs. The change of the strategic status of a company in the transportation service market is a fairly complicated task, which, as analysis of literary sources shows, is achievable for few enterprises, primarily small and medium-sized businesses. Such situations show that information solutions were introduced without analyzing or assessing the business models of certain companies which could be used a basis for digital landscape of business as a whole. In recent years, the basic concept of forming a single information space of an enterprise has been the enterprise architecture. It provided for coordination between all the business processes in order to achieve a company’s strategic goals. The fundamentals of the concept were developed by J. Zachman in his famous Zachman Framework, and it was later developed with numerous models of enterprise architecture (e.g., TOGAF (Department of Defense Architecture Framework), GERAM (Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology), DoDAF (Department of Defense Architecture Framework)). However, currently some researchers note that sustainable corporate development should stem not only from a “correct assembly” of all its business elements, which was the purpose of enterprise architecture, but also from the interaction of these elements when reaching the emergence effect. In this context, one should pay attention to comprehensive activity analysis of a transport and logistics business using ontological and architecture approaches.

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“…Generally, the aim of enterprise ontologies is to support structuring of enterprise information and knowledge management [10], [31]. Due to the fact that enterprise ontologies are application ontologies within enterprises for structuring of information [10], [30]- [32], they aim to provide a common structure for data collection by offering a collection of terms and definitions relevant to business enterprises [30], [33]. The extended information is included in section 2.2.…”

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“…Ontology-based solutions both in the form of Enterprise Ontology (EO) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) ontology are suggested and also successfully applied in many works [11], [20], [24], [33], [35]. The terms Enterprise Ontology and Enterprise Architecture currently belong to the standard vocabulary to designing and (re) engineering enterprises [11], [19], [20], [33], thereby exploiting modern information and communication technologies for innovating sustainable products and services [11], [36] as well as for optimizing operational performance [30]. The scope of EO is to ensure in particular acquisition, representation, and manipulation of enterprise knowledge [10], proposing a consistent core of basic concepts and language constructs [32].…”

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An Ontology-Based Knowledge Modelling for Sustainable Entrepreneurship Domain

Konys¹

2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Sustainable entrepreneurship (SE) focuses on entrepreneurial activities taking into account environmental and social issues, not only by paying attention to economic issues. While the concept of SE is a prominent stream for modern entrepreneurship, the following questions arise: how enterprises can run a business and implement Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and which factors can support or constrain SE? Research on SE suggests that that identifying and implementing sustainable development opportunity is more complex for the entrepreneur than the recognition of non-sustainable opportunity. Therefore this article contributes to the advancement of sustainable entrepreneurship research by offering an ontology-based approach collecting factors from the current literature review and incorporating different lines of research that can influence further sustainable entrepreneurial strategies. The applied research methodology exploits a previously elaborated bibliometric analysis which included a systematic literature review conducted using the PRISMA methodology. The condensed immense amount of bibliometric information and further co-occurrence analysis of keywords determining SE factors was a basis for constructing ontology-based model. This model offers a classification schema of sustainable entrepreneurship factors as well as a tool performing knowledge from being machine-readable to machineunderstandable.

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“…Moreover, [6] studied Enterprise modeling based on ontology and presented a case study for a software producing firm in Iran. Finally, [15] employed an interpretive case study approach to explore the interoperability challenges resulting from EA implementation for a hospital in Denmark. [12] describe ZFW as a comprehensive matrix that is composed of six rows, representing the "Perspectives" of different stakeholders and include: Planner, Owner, Designer, Builder, Implementer, and Actual system, and six columns, representing the "Aspects/Abstractions" which identify different types of information (textual/ drawings) and are characterized by questions What, How, Where, Who, When, and Why.…”

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Practical EA Model Development: A Case Study of An Educational Institution in Bahrain

Adwan¹,

Al-Soufi²

2016

IJCIS

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Organizations strive to meet their business goals in preserving a desired harmony and collaboration between its business environment and integrated ICT. At the same time, Enterprise architecture (EA), as a high ontological analysis tool, claims that organizations could directly benefit from EA efforts in enhancing knowledge and improved decision making about the organization's people, business processes, information, and ICT applications. Massive number of EA methodologies and frameworks assist organizations in achieving their aforementioned benefits. This paper addresses the development of an EA (baseline and a target architectural effort) analysis that enables the management of a Bahraini educational department; Information Systems Department (IS-Dep) assess its readiness for investing in a new Dashboard application. Respectively, Zachman Framework (ZFW), an Architecture Development Process (ADP), and ArchiMate modeling language were employed as an analysis tool, project methodology and a rigorous architecture description provider for the business and IT stakeholders. Results reveal that 1) The whole university is facing communication and information sharing difficulties, at which more advanced application systems, should be adopted to correct this problem. 2) Every type of data and information in the university is centralized implying that lengthy and time-consuming procedures are to be tackled. In order for the IS-Dep to meet the needs of both students and academics, the system needs to be decentralized. 3) Many services are not fully utilized, so the IS-Dep should utilize them.

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Enterprise Architecture Development Based on Enterprise Ontology

Cited by 15 publications

References 11 publications

Development of Transportation Management System with the Use of Ontological and Architectural Approaches to Ensure Trucking Reliability

Development of Transportation Management System with the Use of Ontological and Architectural Approaches to Ensure Trucking Reliability

An Ontology-Based Knowledge Modelling for Sustainable Entrepreneurship Domain

Practical EA Model Development: A Case Study of An Educational Institution in Bahrain

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