Nowadays, with relatively mature but steadily increasing scope of the Enterprise Architecture (EA), many organizations struggle to deliver value when using EA in conjunction with Business Process Management (BPM) practices. The challenge is in particular linked to expectation organizations have about which approach is suitable for what when it comes to building the model how the organizations s...

In theory, enterprise zones target economically distressed areas. In practice, they do not. The dramatic expansion of the Ohio enterprise zone program to non-distressed areas allows us to examine three important theoretical and policy questions about enterprise zone usage and performance when enterprise zones are no longer targeted. First, if the state does not limit which municipalities can ut...

While much has been written about patterns in software engineering, little has been written about their application to systems architecting. This paper provides a discussion of patterns and their potential applicability to complex system architecting. A historical introduction to the concept of patterns is provided along with their evolution from the domain of civil architecture to other engine...

Quality attributes (QA) play a fundamental role when architecting software systems. However, in contrast to QA in traditional software systems, the role of QA when architecting service-based systems (SBS) has not yet been studied in depth. Thus, we conducted a descriptive survey to explore how QA are treated during the architecting of SBS. Data were collected using an online questionnaire targe...

This paper presents two major transformation initiatives in many industries today, and it tries to examine them from a reengineering perspective. Core System Transformation deals with analyzing the existing core software system of an enterprise in order to migrate it into a renewed and more flexible system. Big Data addresses the Enterprise Architecture by introducing new, data-centric capabili...