TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a conceptual framework for interactive enterprise architecture management visualizations
AU - Schaub, Michael
AU - Matthes, Florian
AU - Roth, Sascha
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Visualizations have grown to a de-facto standard as means for decision-making 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 Thereby, those visualizations are often created manually, so that they get soon outdated since underlying data change on a frequent basis.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 to adapt common EA visualizations to an organization-specific metamodel. At the same time, end-users want to interact with the visualization in terms of changing data immediately within the visualization for the strategic planning of an EA. As of today, there is no standard, framework, or reference model for the generation of such an interactive EA visualization. This paper 1) introduces a framework, i.e. an interplay of different models to realize interactive visualizations, 2) outlines requirements for interactive EA anagement visualizations referring to concepts of the framework, 3) applies the framework to a prototypical implementation detailing the therein used models as an example, and 4) compares the prototype to related work employing the framework.
AB - Visualizations have grown to a de-facto standard as means for decision-making 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 Thereby, those visualizations are often created manually, so that they get soon outdated since underlying data change on a frequent basis.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 to adapt common EA visualizations to an organization-specific metamodel. At the same time, end-users want to interact with the visualization in terms of changing data immediately within the visualization for the strategic planning of an EA. As of today, there is no standard, framework, or reference model for the generation of such an interactive EA visualization. This paper 1) introduces a framework, i.e. an interplay of different models to realize interactive visualizations, 2) outlines requirements for interactive EA anagement visualizations referring to concepts of the framework, 3) applies the framework to a prototypical implementation detailing the therein used models as an example, and 4) compares the prototype to related work employing the framework.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84875168686&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84875168686
SN - 9783885792956
T3 - Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)
SP - 75
EP - 90
BT - Modellierung 2012
T2 - Modellierung 2012 - Modeling 2012
Y2 - 14 March 2012 through 16 March 2012
ER -