Exploring Intentional Modeling and Analysis for Enterprise Architecture

Abstract

An enterprise architecture is intended to be a comprehensive blueprint describing the key components and relationships for an enterprise from strategies to business processes to information systems and technologies. Enterprise architectures have become essential for managing change in complex organizations. While "motivation" has been recognized since Zachman 0 as an important element of enterprise architecture, yet to date, most enterprise architecture modeling only deals with structure, function, and behaviour, neglecting the intentional dimension of motivations, rationales, and goals. The contribution at hand explores this challenge and aims to illustrate the potentials of intentional modeling in the context of enterprise architecture. After introducing two intentional modeling languages and their potential relation to an enterprise architecture construction process, we report on an explorative case study that aimed to investigate the practical implications of intentional modeling and analysis for enterprise architectures. Finally, we present key observations from interviews that were conducted with practitioners to obtain feedback regarding the material developed in the case study.

Towards an Approach for Stakeholder-Oriented Elicitation and Identification of Concerns in EA

“…This thorough understanding of concerns facilitated the determination of stakeholder-appropriate architecture viewpoints. Moreover our models provide valuable information about the vision for an EA undertaking -lack of such is named as a frequent issue in EA [3,15,35]. For these reasons we consider an ASTEAM concern model a worthwhile addition to an enterprise architecture description.…”

“…We searched for such articles using various combinations of "GORE" and "EA" in abbreviated and non-abbreviated form using Google Scholar, IEEE Xplore and AIS Electronic Library. Few scholarly publications exist about leveraging GORE and GORM in enterprise architecture [15,35]. Our search yielded one modeling approach: ARMOR [15], a goal-oriented requirements modeling language for enterprise architecture.…”

Classifying Enterprise Architecture Analysis Approaches

“…This leads to a classification as shown in Table 6. Quite different from the aforementioned analysis approaches is the approach presented in [31], which centers around the idea of intentional modeling. Based on this idea, not only the EA as the architecture of the enterprise system, but also the architecture behind the EA management processes is analyzed.…”

“…Table 8. Summarizing classification of the EA analysis approaches Body of Analysis structure [11], [25], ([27], [28]) [30], [31] behavior statistics [26], [27], [28] dynamic behavior [25] Time Reference ex-post [11], [25], [26], [27], [28], [30] ex-ante ( [25]), [26], [27], [28],( [30]), [31] Analysis Technique expert-based [11], [31] rule-based [25], [30] indicator-based ( [11]), [26], [27], [28] Analysis Concern functional [11],( [25]), [30], [31] non-functional ( [11], [25]), [26], [27], [28], [30],([31]) Self-Referentiality none [11], [25], [26], [27], [28], [30] single-level model …”

An Approach towards Enterprise Architecture Analysis using AHP and Fuzzy AHP

“…The analysis methods in the EA community including [2] [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24]. The main contributions of our approach which make it different from the approaches of group 2 are as below: a) In our approach, the criteria and sub-criteria of a quality attribute are given different weights according to the EA layers each of them belong to and also the importance of each EA layer in the enterprise.…”