Title:
Enterprise Engineering: The Power of Standards
Abstract: The e-business ecosystem generates pressure on modern
companies to invest massively in technologies that can bring them into the
digital world of business-to-business collaboration. In their race to become
a player of the global information system, companies have accumulated many
layers of software. This situation has generated what is now known as the
software complexity issue. What is missing in most organizations is a mechanism
that can align or “bridge the gap” between the concerns of corporate strategists
and IT project managers considering the business-to-business collaboration
issues. As a consequence, a new discipline has evolved, enterprise engineering
(also known as enterprise modelling), to deal with enterprise architectures.
The enterprise architecture describes the logical linkages between the enterprise
business, information and IT infrastructure. Many standards for building
enterprise architectures have been recently adopted addressing multiple modelling
perspectives: business, design and technology. This paper will provide both
a survey of today's enterprise engineering standards and a framework for
identifying the appropriate combination that enterprises can use to enable
ad-hoc systems-to-systems collaboration.
Author: Liviu-Gabriel Cretu