Business Process Management (BPM) has been a widely accepted management tool for many years. Recently, the steadily growing complexity of IT landscapes, the increasing speed of change of business models, business processes and organisational structures in many business sectors, and the high pressure for cost reductions in the IT area have lead to the deployment of Enterprise Architecture Manage...

Visualizations have grown to a de-facto standard as means for decisionmaking in the management discipline of enterprise architecture (EA). Thereby, those visualizations are often created manually, so that they get soon outdated since underlying data change on a frequent basis. As a consequence, EA management tools require mechanisms to generate visualizations. In this vein, a major challenge is...

There is ample evidence to suggest that collaborative modeling offers significant advantages over modeling carried out by individuals. Collaborative modeling can be achieved by workshops and other interactive techniques. Recently there has been increasing interest in supporting collaborative modeling with web and repository based tools, especially where the desired participants are separated by...

Serviceorientierte Architekturen (SOA) und Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) werden häufig isoliert voneinander betrachtet. Serviceorientierung kann jedoch nur über eine Kombination von beidem effektiv umgesetzt werden. Im Artikel werden iteratec Best Practices vorgestellt.

Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is acknowledged as a discipline to drive organizational change, to improve IT landscapes’ transparency, and to align business and IT. Despite its increasing popularity in practice, many EAM initiatives are confronted with substantial challenges, as demonstrated by the low usage level of enterprise architecture (EA) documentation and enterprise architects...

Within the context of EAM numerous approaches proposed by researches exist. Still, it is not easy for companies to choose the most suitable one from the multitude of architecture frameworks and methods. Additionally trends in the global economy and the resulting pressure on the part of competitors force companies to introduce more effective management processes. As a consequence, EAM faces the ...

This paper discusses the idea of transferring the concept of supply chains and value creation from material flows to data flows. The paper has a focus on enterprise architecture management (EAM) and the data required for EAM. Our proposal is to transfer the idea of supply chains from manufacturing to EAM by combining three different approaches (a) information demand patterns as means to express...

Companies often need integration of business process and their production with others. Processing is time-sensitive and the management framework should encapsulate timing criteria of processes. There is no unified model for integration of process and production information in temporary coalition of co-operating enterprises. The research is aimed to overcome this cap and the current paper descri...

Within the context of EAM numerous approaches proposed by researches exist. Still, it is not easy for companies to choose the most suitable one from the multitude of architecture frameworks and methods. Additionally trends in the global economy and the resulting pressure on the part of competitors force companies to introduce more effective management processes. As a consequence, EAM faces the ...