Characteristics of Enterprise Architecture Analyses

Julia Rauscher, Melanie Langermeier, Bernhard Bauer

2016

Abstract

Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) deals with the assessment and development of business processes and IT landscape of an organization. Analyses are an important mean in the EAM process. They support the understanding of the architecture and evaluate the current situation as well as possible future ones. In current literature exists various different approaches to EA analyses. Each pursues different goals and utilizes different techniques. We evaluated current literature about EA analyses and identified possible categories. Therefore we define requirements for an EA analysis and utilize them for a classification of the various approaches. We propose a two-dimensional classification approach. Technical categories cluster analyses according their procedure and utilized techniques. Functional categories cluster analyses according to their goals and outcome. To validate our categorization and the analysis requirements we develop a domain specific language, which is used to formalize the existing analysis approaches from literature.

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Rauscher J., Langermeier M. and Bauer B. (2016). Characteristics of Enterprise Architecture Analyses . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD, ISBN 978-989-758-190-8, pages 104-113. DOI: 10.5220/0006222701040113


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@conference{bmsd16,
author={Julia Rauscher and Melanie Langermeier and Bernhard Bauer},
title={Characteristics of Enterprise Architecture Analyses},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,},
year={2016},
pages={104-113},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006222701040113},
isbn={978-989-758-190-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,
TI - Characteristics of Enterprise Architecture Analyses
SN - 978-989-758-190-8
AU - Rauscher J.
AU - Langermeier M.
AU - Bauer B.
PY - 2016
SP - 104
EP - 113
DO - 10.5220/0006222701040113