A Tool for Managing the Evolution of Enterprise Architecture Meta-model and Models

2017 ◽  
pp. 68-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago Rechau ◽  
Nuno Silva ◽  
Miguel Mira da Silva ◽  
Pedro Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Meta Model

Automating the Migration of Enterprise Architecture Models

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuno Silva ◽  
Francisco Ferreira ◽  
Pedro Sousa ◽  
Miguel Mira da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Model Evolution ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Meta Model ◽  
Manual Task ◽  
Business Requirements ◽  
Enterprise Architectures

The evolution of Enterprise Architectures (EA) is the result of applying EA development projects within organizations with the goal of accomplishing specific business requirements. Recent approaches seek to automate and improve EA practice within organizations by employing EA management tools. Thus, evolving the organization's EA meta-model is a consequence of fulfilling such initiatives. Currently, the migration of EA models conforming to a specific EA meta-model evolution is a manual task in which EA data corresponding to the actual models is gathered and the models re-designed. This results in an error-prone and time-consuming task. To address this issue, the authors propose a set of migration rules to automate the migration process. The proposed migration rules were implemented within an EA tool and then demonstrated and validated using a fictitious organization migration scenario.

scholarly journals Architecting business process maps

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geert Poels ◽  
Félix García ◽  
Francisco Ruiz ◽  
Mario Piattini
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Process Mapping ◽  
Process Map ◽  
Process Maps ◽  
Meta Model ◽  
Modelling Languages ◽  
High Level ◽  
Process Architecture

Process maps provide a high-level overview of an organization?s business processes. While used for many years in different shapes and forms, there is little shared understanding of the concept and its relationship to business process architecture. In this paper, we position the concept of process map within the domain of architecture description. By ?architecting? the concept of business process map, we identify and clarify diverging views of this concept as found in the literature and set requirements for describing process maps. A meta-model for a process mapping language is produced as a result. The proposed meta-model allows investigating the suitability of EA modelling languages as a basis for defining a domain-specific language for process mapping along with the creation of a better understanding of business process architecture in relation to enterprise architecture, which can be beneficial for both BPM and EA professionals.

Evolution of ArchiMate and ArchiMate Models

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Nuno Silva ◽  
Pedro Sousa ◽  
Miguel Mira da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Modeling Language ◽  
Model Driven Engineering ◽  
Meta Model ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Model Migration ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Architecture Modeling ◽  
Over Time

Models are a fundamental aspect of enterprise architecture, as they capture the concepts and relationships that describe the essentials of the different enterprise domains. These models are tightly coupled to an enterprise architecture modeling language that defines the rules for creating and updating such models. In the model-driven engineering field, these languages are formalized as meta-models. Over time, to keep up with the need to capture a more complex reality in their enterprise architecture models, organizations need to enrich the meta-model and, consequently, migrate the existing models. Model migration poses a strenuous modeling effort with the gathering of enterprise data and model redesign, leading to an error-prone and time-consuming task. In this chapter, the authors present a catalog of co-evolution operations for enabling automation of ArchiMate model migration based on a set of meta-model changes.

Architecture-Driven Business Transformation

2007 ◽  
pp. 207-220
Author(s):  
C. Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Meta Model ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Right ◽  
Process Architecture ◽  
Customer Centricity

Enterprise architecture (EA) has primarily a business focus, but it involves the kind of systems thinking typically associated with information technology (IT). Any one of its component architectures could theoretically drive a business transformation. The example of process architecture is chosen because of its implications for other architectural domains; because of the link between customer-centricity and process-centricity; and because inherited attitudes to process desperately need overhaul. An imagined diagnostic in a financial services company provides context. The diagnostic recommends a holistic alternative to current approaches to process. It articulates an explicit logical meta-model from which it draws out a number of key concepts implementable as generic physical constructs. The resulting process architecture can drive radical business transformation given the right program management, governance, and, above all, sponsorship.

scholarly journals Integrated Enterprise Resilience Architecture Framework for Surviving Strategic Disruptions

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Hassan Ahmed Hassan Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Enterprise ◽  
Meta Model ◽  
Business Architecture ◽  
Organization Structures ◽  
The Core ◽  
Architecture Framework ◽  
Resilience Framework ◽  
Architecture Frameworks

Resilient business enterprises are able to survive strategic disruptions like technology disruptions and come back more successful. They succeed because they develop and effectively implement the resilience strategies of mitigation, adaption, and transformation. This paper proposes an integrated resilience framework that is based on a combination of enterprise architecture and business architecture frameworks. At the core of the proposed framework is a meta-model and a method. The framework guides the development of a unified vision of how a business enterprise can address a specific strategic disruption and transform itself in a successful way. The framework articulates the vision through the lens of business blueprint views that guide the formation of transformation initiatives. Through the mapping capabilities of the framework, the transformation initiatives cross over the boundaries between organization structures and domains. In the last section we demonstrate our proposed method and meta-model with the help of a case study.

scholarly journals Integrated Enterprise Resilience Architecture Framework for Surviving Strategic Disruptions

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Ahmed Hassan Mohamed ◽  
Galal Hassan Galal-Edeen
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Enterprise ◽  
Meta Model ◽  
Business Architecture ◽  
Organization Structures ◽  
The Core ◽  
Architecture Framework ◽  
Resilience Framework ◽  
Architecture Frameworks

Resilient business enterprises are able to survive strategic disruptions like technology disruptions and come back more successful. They succeed because they develop and effectively implement the resilience strategies of mitigation, adaption, and transformation. This paper proposes an integrated resilience framework that is based on a combination of enterprise architecture and business architecture frameworks. At the core of the proposed framework is a meta-model and a method. The framework guides the development of a unified vision of how a business enterprise can address a specific strategic disruption and transform itself in a successful way. The framework articulates the vision through the lens of business blueprint views that guide the formation of transformation initiatives. Through the mapping capabilities of the framework, the transformation initiatives cross over the boundaries between organization structures and domains. In the last section we demonstrate our proposed method and meta-model with the help of a case study.

scholarly journals Modularising the Complex Meta-Models in Enterprise Systems Using Conceptual Structures

2018 ◽  
pp. 261-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Polovina ◽  
Hans-Jurgen Scheruhn ◽  
Mark von Rosing
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Formal Concept Analysis ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Enterprise Systems ◽  
Concept Analysis ◽  
Formal Concept ◽  
Conceptual Graphs ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Meta Model ◽  
Conceptual Structures

The development of meta-models in Enterprise Modelling, Enterprise Engineering, and Enterprise Architecture enables an enterprise to add value and meet its obligations to its stakeholders. This value is however undermined by the complexity in the meta-models which have become difficult to visualise thus deterring the human-driven process. These experiences have driven the development of layers and levels in the modular meta-model. Conceptual Structures (CS), described as “Information Processing in Mind and Machine”, align the way computers work with how humans think. Using the Enterprise Information Meta-model Architecture (EIMA) as an exemplar, two forms of CS known as Conceptual Graphs (CGs) and Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) are brought together through the CGtoFCA algorithm, thereby mathematically evaluating the effectiveness of the layers and levels in these meta-models. The work reveals the useful contribution that this approach brings in actualising the modularising of complex meta-models in enterprise systems using conceptual structures.

A Meta-Model for Automated Enterprise Architecture Model Maintenance

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Farwick ◽  
Wilfried Pasquazzo ◽  
Ruth Breu ◽  
Christian M. Schweda ◽  
Karsten Voges ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Meta Model ◽  
Architecture Model
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