Event Data Sources for Enterprise Architecture Documentation
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Frei, Michael
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Publikationsdatum
02/2015
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Master
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11 - Studentische Arbeit
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Hochschule für Wirtschaft FHNW
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Zusammenfassung
Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) has become a widely accepted discipline that
concerns itself with the alignment of business and information technology (IT) and deals with the
increasing complexity of information system (IS) landscapes. It is the practice of documenting the
interrelations of business and IT entities by developing a model of the enterprise architecture (EA).
This documentation of the EA acts as basis for planning the future architecture and prioritizing the
projects that transform the current architecture. Due to globalizing markets and the fast paced
evolution of IT, organizations are forced to become agile and frequently adapt their internal
architecture in order to stay competitive. Today, the majority of tasks concerning the maintenance
of EA documentation are based on manual methods and are connected to huge data collection
efforts. This has a negative impact on the quality and reliability of the EA documentation and
therefore diminishes the benefits of EAM. The popularly utilized EA frameworks cover the process
of keeping the EA documentation up-to-date only marginally. In recent literature, there has been an
effort to automate the EA documentation with the use and integration of different productive IS
across the company. It was identified that common IS in organizations not only hold data about the
EA, but also can contain events that could be used to trigger EA documentation processes.
However, only few concrete implementations of automated EA documentation are examined in
research or found in practice, because organizations face several challenges when attempting to
integrate IS into an automated EA documentation. This thesis identifies possible sources of EA
data and EA events in the form of common IS or databases in today’s enterprises. Further, the
thesis develops an evaluation catalogue for potential source candidates in order to recommend a set
of suitable documentation techniques for each source. A proof of concept through a case-study at a
financial institution demonstrates the feasibility and applicability of the catalogue. The proposed
data source selection catalogue for EA documentation supports the identification and selection of
productive IS and suitable techniques in order to increase the quality of EA documentation
Schlagwörter
Enterprise Architecture (EA), EA Documentation, EA Maintenance, EA Data Collection, EA Data Sources, EA Change Events, EA Automation Challenges, EA Model Repository
Fachgebiet (DDC)
004 - Computer Wissenschaften, Internet
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Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Ja
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Unveröffentlicht
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Keine Begutachtung
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Zitation
FREI, Michael, 2015. Event Data Sources for Enterprise Architecture Documentation. Hochschule für Wirtschaft FHNW. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-1392