Towards simulation-supported enterprise architecture management

Sabine Buckl, Florian Matthes, Wolfgang Renz, Christian M. Schweda, Jan Sudeikat

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Abstract

Enterprise architecture management is based on a holistic view on the enterprise addressing business and IT aspects in an integrated manner. EA management is a process to manage the complexity of the overall architecture and to improve the alignment of business and IT. In order to achieve these goals, it is necessary but not sufficient to manage the static complexity that arises from dependencies between the elements of the EA, like goals, organizational units, business processes, business applications, and IT infrastructure elements. Performance, stability, and scalability can only be analyzed, modeled, and controlled, if static EA models are enriched by appropriate abstractions to capture the dynamic complexity of the EA understood as a socio-technical system of interacting (sub-)systems. This article identifies possible techniques to address dynamic complexity in EA. The potential benefits of system simulations are discussed and the derivation of apropriate simulation models is exemplified. A key observation is the fact that EA management is a iterative evolution process, where each iteration only changes a small fraction of the EA. It is therefore possible to automatically derive model parameters required for the simulation of the future architectures from an analysis of the dynamics of the current architecture.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobIS 2008 - Modellierung Betrieblicher Informationssysteme
Subtitle of host publicationModellierung Zwischen SOA und Compliance Management
Pages131-145
Number of pages15
StatePublished - 2008
EventModellierung Betrieblicher Informationssysteme: Modellierung Zwischen SOA und Compliance Management, MobIS 2008 - Modeling Business Information Systems: Modeling Between SOA and Compliance Management, MobIS 2008 - Saarbrucken, Germany
Duration: 27 Nov 200828 Nov 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)
VolumeP-141
ISSN (Print)1617-5468

Conference

ConferenceModellierung Betrieblicher Informationssysteme: Modellierung Zwischen SOA und Compliance Management, MobIS 2008 - Modeling Business Information Systems: Modeling Between SOA and Compliance Management, MobIS 2008
Country/TerritoryGermany
CitySaarbrucken
Period27/11/0828/11/08

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