Towards an Enterprise Repository Framework

Dina Jacobs, Paula Kotzé, Alta van der Merwe

2009

Abstract

The enterprise architect is dependent on the functionality of the enterprise repository to define and maintain the enterprise architecture. Two of the specific functionalities are typical ‘warehouse’ related functionalities. The one requirement is to integrate multiple business process reference models as source models, similar to the reuse of data from different sources in a data warehouse environment. The second requirement is the flexible visualization of business process models that has a ‘slice-and-dice’ flavour as used in the data warehouse domain. By means of analogical reasoning, our research investigates using the theoretical foundation of the data warehouse domain to contribute to the definition of an enterprise repository framework. Based on the similarities found, an enterprise repository framework is derived.

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Jacobs D., Kotzé P. and van der Merwe A. (2009). Towards an Enterprise Repository Framework . In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Advanced Technologies and Techniques for Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: AER, (ICEIS 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-93-7, pages 77-89. DOI: 10.5220/0002193300770089


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@conference{aer09,
author={Dina Jacobs and Paula Kotzé and Alta van der Merwe},
title={Towards an Enterprise Repository Framework},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Advanced Technologies and Techniques for Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: AER, (ICEIS 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={77-89},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002193300770089},
isbn={978-989-8111-93-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Advanced Technologies and Techniques for Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: AER, (ICEIS 2009)
TI - Towards an Enterprise Repository Framework
SN - 978-989-8111-93-7
AU - Jacobs D.
AU - Kotzé P.
AU - van der Merwe A.
PY - 2009
SP - 77
EP - 89
DO - 10.5220/0002193300770089