Towards a Classification Framework for Approaches to Enterprise Architecture Analysis
Analysis is an important part of the Enterprise Architecture Management Process. Prior to decisions regarding transformation of the Enterprise Architecture, the current situation and the outcomes of alternative action plans have to be analysed. Many analy
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hair of Business Information Systems, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany {birger.lantow,matthias.wissotzki,benjamin.lehmann, ole.zimmermann,kurt.sandkuhl}@uni-rostock.de, [email protected] 2 Faculty of Informatics, Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany
Abstract. Analysis is an important part of the Enterprise Architecture Management Process. Prior to decisions regarding transformation of the Enterprise Architecture, the current situation and the outcomes of alternative action plans have to be analysed. Many analysis approaches have been proposed by researchers and current Enterprise Architecture Management tools implement analysis functionalities. However, few work has been done structuring and classifying Enterprise Architecture Analysis approaches. This paper collects and extends existing classification schemes, presenting a framework for Enterprise Architecture Analysis classification. For evaluation, a collection of Enterprise Architecture Analysis approaches has been classified based on this framework. As a result, the description of these approaches has been assessed, a common set of important categories for Enterprise Architecture Analysis classification has been derived and suggestions for further development are drawn. Keywords: Enterprise Architecture Management Analysis EAM EAA Classification
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1 Introduction Analysis is an important part of the Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) Process. Many analysis approaches have been proposed by researchers and current Enterprise Architecture Management tools implement analysis functionalities. In practice, Enterprise Architectures (EA) are often analysed by using visualizations and are typically created using EAM tools. However, several studies show a lack in EAM tools’ visualization capabilities [20, 24, 31]. Visualizations generated by EAM tools are often report-like and static in respect to the displayed information. Modern analysis approaches like [21, 24, 25] should combine interactive visualizations with automated analysis techniques. In this regard enterprise architect’s responsibilities are changing [30]. By using automated analysis techniques, enterprise architects can focus on more advanced analyses for which no algorithm exists. We investigate related work © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016 Published by Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. All Rights Reserved J. Horkoff et al. (Eds.): PoEM 2016, LNBIP 267, pp. 335–343, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-48393-1_25
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of classifying EA analysis approaches. Based on the results, we propose a classification framework. Therefore, the remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 discusses existing approaches to EAA classification and derives a common classification framework based on these approaches and a discussion of general attributes that are important for analysis methods and tools independently of the EAA domain. Section 3 classifies EAA tools and methods that have been d
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