A new paradigm for the continuous alignment of business and IT: combining enterprise architecture modelling and enterprise ontology
Authors
Gerber, Aurona
Karagiannis, Dimitris
Woitsch, Robert
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2016
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01A - Journal article
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Computers in Industry
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79
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77-86
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Elsevier
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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.
Keywords
Business and IT alignment, Enterprise Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Ontology
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330 - Wirtschaft
000 - Computer science, information & general works
001 - Knowledge
000 - Computer science, information & general works
001 - Knowledge
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1872-6194
0166-3615
0166-3615
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English
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Yes
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Published
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HINKELMANN, Knut, Aurona GERBER, Dimitris KARAGIANNIS, Barbara THÖNSSEN, Alta VAN DER MERWE und Robert WOITSCH, 2016. A new paradigm for the continuous alignment of business and IT: combining enterprise architecture modelling and enterprise ontology. Computers in Industry. 2016. Bd. 79, S. 77–86. DOI 10.1016/j.compind.2015.07.009. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-120