Interface descriptions for enterprise architecture

Garg, Aditya; Kazman, Rick; Chen, Hongmei

doi:10.1016/j.scico.2005.11.001

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“…These enterprise architects think they can help organizations choose the best solutions to meet their needs. 233 An 'integrator' who has the ability to join all the stakeholders together with their understandings of the needs, perspectives and problems of their organization. These enterprise architects believe that IT alone Table 11.…”

Section: Qualitative Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An exploration of the many ways to approach the discipline of enterprise architecture

Saint-Louis

Lapalme

2018

International Journal of Engineering Business Management

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Despite growing interest in enterprise architecture (EA) around the world in recent years, a lack of common understanding is frequently described by EA researchers/practitioners. We conducted a systematic mapping study and it revealed that the extent to which the authors/researchers are focused on EA, the sectors in which they are working, the academic disciplines in which they have studied, the countries where their affiliated organizations are located, the subject areas of the journals/publishers of their publications and the way they have approached EA and its practitioners are some major elements that might influence the existing uniformity in EA. In addition, this study demonstrates how important it is to pay attention to the definition of 'enterprise architecture' itself. The contribution of this study is the organization of the EA literature according to three major questions concerning 'who' have been published in the literature, 'where' they have been located and 'what' their publications are about. This helps to better identify sources of variety which could be on the basis of the lack of common understanding in EA and provides practitioners and stakeholders a better understanding of this challenge. This also provides relevant directions for future studies.

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Section: Qualitative Findingsmentioning

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An exploration of the many ways to approach the discipline of enterprise architecture

Saint-Louis

Lapalme

2018

International Journal of Engineering Business Management

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“…[4, p. 27] Interpreting EA models as graphs is a common approach in EA research [2]. For example, Garg et al [13] propose a 3-tier architecture that allows defining EAs and their transformation into a graph structure to enable stakeholders with different visual analysis capabilities. Aier [1] propose the EA Builder tool that supports the identification of clusters in graphs which can then be considered as candidates for services in a service-oriented architecture.…”

Section: Graph-based Analysis Of Ea Modelsmentioning

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Using Knowledge Graphs to Detect Enterprise Architecture Smells

Smajevic

Hacks

Bork

2021

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Hitherto, the concept of Enterprise Architecture (EA) Smells has been proposed to assess quality flaws in EAs and their models. Together with this new concept, a catalog of different EA Smells has been published and a first prototype was developed. However, this prototype is limited to ArchiMate and is not able to assess models adhering to other EA modeling languages. Moreover, the prototype is not integrateable with other EA tools. Therefore, we propose to enhance the extensible Graph-based Enterprise Architecture Analysis (eGEAA) platform that relies on Knowledge Graphs with EA Smell detection capabilities. To align these two approaches, we show in this paper, how ArchiMate models can be transformed into Knowledge Graphs and provide a set of queries on the Knowledge Graph representation that are able to detect EA Smells. This enables enterprise architects to assess EA Smells on all types of EA models as long as there is a Knowledge Graph representation of the model. Finally, we evaluate the Knowledge Graph based EA Smell detection by analyzing a set of 347 EA models.

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“…A slightly different focus on managing the application landscape is taken in [12]. Therein, the aspect of the interfaces connecting the business applications is analyzed.…”

Section: Requirements For and Current Approaches To Landscape Managementmentioning

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“…when changes to the application landscape are considered. In this context, [12] puts special emphasis on documenting and analyzing the current application landscape. This information is used as input to coordinate potential change processes affecting the landscape.…”

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“…This information is used as input to coordinate potential change processes affecting the landscape. While [12] takes a rather detailed look on the business applications and their interconnections, relationships to business related concepts of the EA are not presented in the paper. Whereas, the topic of the evolution of the application landscape is indicated, actual planning of future states or transformation projects is not discussed.…”

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An Information Model for Landscape Management – Discussing Temporality Aspects

Buckl

Ernst

Matthes

et al. 2009

Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2007

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Planning, managing, and maintaining the evolution of the application landscape is a focal point of enterprise architecture (EA) management. Whereas, planning the evolution of business support provided by the business applications is understood as one challenge to be addressed in landscape management, another challenge arises in the context of traceability of management decisions.This paper discusses the requirements regarding support for landscape management as risen by practitioners from industry, gathered in an extensive survey during which the tool support for EA management was analyzed. Thereby, a lack of support for this management discipline was discovered, which is caused by the way, application landscapes are modeled in tools. We subsequently discuss how to incorporate these requirements into an information model.

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Interface descriptions for enterprise architecture

Cited by 14 publications

References 8 publications

An exploration of the many ways to approach the discipline of enterprise architecture

An exploration of the many ways to approach the discipline of enterprise architecture

Using Knowledge Graphs to Detect Enterprise Architecture Smells

An Information Model for Landscape Management – Discussing Temporality Aspects

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