A new paradigm for the continuous alignment of business and IT: Combining enterprise architecture modelling and enterprise ontology

A new paradigm for the continuous alignment of business and IT: Combining enterprise architecture modelling and enterprise ontology

Abstract

The paper deals with Next Generation Enterprise Information Systems in the context of Enterprise Engineering. The continuous alignment of business and IT in a rapidly changing environment is a grand challenge for today's enterprises. The ability to react timeously to continuous and unexpected change is called agility and is an essential quality of the modern enterprise. Being agile has consequences for the engineering of enterprises and enterprise information systems. In this paper a new paradigm for next generation enterprise information systems is proposed, which shifts the development approach of model-driven engineering to continuous alignment of business and IT for the agile enterprise. It is based on a metamodelling approach, which supports both human-interpretable graphical enterprise architecture and machine-interpretable enterprise ontologies. Furthermore, next generation enterprise information systems are described, which embed modelling tools and algorithms for model analysis.

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Authors
  • Hinkelmann, Knut
  • Gerber, Aurona
  • Karagiannis, Dimitris
  • Van der Merve, Alta
  • Woitsch, Robert
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Shortfacts
Category
Journal Paper
Divisions
Knowledge Engineering
Subjects
Kuenstliche Intelligenz
Angewandte Informatik
Journal or Publication Title
A new paradigm for the continuous alignment of business and IT: Combining enterprise architecture modelling and enterprise ontology
ISSN
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2015.07.009
Publisher
Hinkelmann, Knut; Gerber, Aurona; Karagiannis, Dimitris; Thönssen, Barbara; Van der Merve, Alta; Woitsch, Robert;
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Niederlande
Page Range
pp. 77-86
Number
June/1
Volume
79
Date
June 2016
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