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EAM Pattern Catalog

2008

Objective

Development of a structured, lightweight, and enterprise-specific approach for Enterprise Architecture Managment.

Sponsors and Partners

  • Siemens IT Solutions and Services 

Representatives of the following companies participated in the online questionnaire

  • Allianz Group IT
  • AXA
  • BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte
  • BMW Group
  • BTC AG
  • cirquent Softlab Group
  • Credit Suisse
  • Deutsche Bahn
  • Deutsche Börse Systems
  • Deutsche Post
  • Deutsche Telekom
  • EWE AG
  • FJH AG
  • FIDUCIA IT
  • HVB Information Services
  • Krones
  • Kuehne + Nagel
  • Münchener Rück
  • Nokia Siemens Networks
  • O2 Germany
  • RWE AG
  • Siemens CIO
  • Siemens PG
  • Siemens IT Solutions and Services
  • Wacker Chemie AG
  • Zollner Elektronik

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Summary

The objective of the EAM Pattern Catalog is to complement existing Enterprise Architecture (EA) management frameworks, which provide a holistic and generic view on the problem of EA management, and to provide additional detail and guidance needed to systematically establish EA management in a step-wise fashion within an enterprise.

The EAM Pattern Catalog identifies the dependencies between

  • individual management concerns (Which goal is to be achieved for which stakeholders?),
  • management methodologies (Which activities are required to address a given concern?),
  • supporting viewpoints (Which diagrams, figures, tables, listings, etc. help stakeholders to collaboratively perform these activities?), and
  • information models (Which information is required to generate a particular viewpoint?).

Methodologies, viewpoints and information model fragments are called EAM patterns: They describe possible solutions for recurring problems that can and may have to be adapted to a specific enterprise context.

The EAM Pattern Catalog identifies best practices by focusing on concerns, methodology patterns (M-Patterns), viewpoint patterns (V-Patterns) and information model fragments (I-Patterns), which are considered relevant by experienced practitioners and are also supported by literature.

The EAM pattern graph shows the dependencies between Concerns, M-Patterns, V-Patterns, and I-Patterns. Its evolution can be seen by clicking the following image.

The EAM Pattern Catalog utilizes a consistent terminology and information organization to simplify the selection, adaption and integration of EAM patterns.

The EAM pattern catalog should help practitioners introducing EA management in a given enterprise and should provide academia a solid and extensive reference documenting current approaches and their rationale.

Compilation of the EAM Pattern Catalog

In a first phase (October 2006 until July 2007), the EAM Pattern Catalog was initialized by sebis based on input from the following sources:

  • Research project Software Cartography, Technische Universität München, Chair for Informatics 19 (sebis)
  • Partners of the research project Software Cartography
  • EAM Tool Survey 2005
  • Enterprise Architecture at Work (ArchiMate), 2005, Marc Lankhorst et al. (Telematica Institut)
  • Management von IT-Architekturen (Edition CIO), 2006, Gernot Dern
  • IT-Unternehmensarchitektur, 2007, Wolfgang Keller

In a second phase (July 2007 until February 2008), the initial EAM Pattern Catalog was evaluated using an online questionnaire to identify methodologies and viewpoints that are considered relevant by practitioners and that are utilized in practice.

The EAM Pattern Catalog tries to find a balance between a green field approach and a completely predefined approach as provided by some EA management frameworks and EA management tools. It avoids a giant integrated information model but utilizes a consistent terminology and a common organization to permit an understanding and comparison of multiple approaches from different sources. Sample viewpoints help readers to grasp essential concepts.

The results of this evaluation and the current version of the EAM pattern catalog can be downloaded in the EAM Pattern Catalog Wiki.

News

  • 10.07.2008 EAM Pattern Catalog (EAMPC) Wiki is online
  • 08.05.2008 Word-Templates for the submission of new EAM Patterns is available for download.
  • 28.04.2008 EAM Pattern Catalog Glossary is available for download
  • 02.04.2008 EAM Pattern Graph Poster is now available for download
  • 15.02.2008 Version 1.0 of the EAM Pattern Catalog is online
  • 15.02.2008 EAM Pattern Graph 1.0 is available

    • Downloads and Links

    Publications by sebis in this project

    [Pf08] Pflügler, K.: Evaluation and Extension of the EAM Pattern Catalog in a German Insurance Company. Technische Universität München, Fakultät für Informatik, Bachelor Thesis, 2008.
    [Di08] Dierl, T.: Models, Methods, and Visualizations for Complicance Management. Technische Universität München, Fakultät für Informatik, Bachelor Thesis, 2008.
    [Bu08c] Buckl, S.; Ernst, A.; Lankes, J.; Matthes, F.; Schweda, C. M.: Enterprise Architecture Management Patterns - Exemplifying the Approach. In: The 12th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2008), München, 2008.
    [Bu08b] Buckl, S.; Ernst, A.; Lankes, J.; Matthes, F.: EAM Pattern Catalog liefert Best Practices. In: is report 5/2008, OXYGON Verlag, 2008.
    [Bu08a] Buckl, S.; Ernst, A.; Lankes, J.; Matthes, F.: Enterprise Architecture Management Pattern Catalog (Version 1.0, February 2008) . Technical Report TB 0801, Chair for Informatics 19, Technische Universität München, 2008.
    [Bu07a] Buckl, S.; Ernst, A.; Lankes, J.; Schneider, K.; Schweda, C.: A Pattern based Approach for constructing Enterprise Architecture Management Information Models . In: 8. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik, Karlsruhe, 2007.

    Community

    The EAM pattern catalog has been designed as an iteratively, extensible approach. Therefore, we are looking for people to join the EAM pattern community to maintain and extend the current EAM pattern catalog.

    To join the EAM pattern community send an email to eamvs@softwarekartographie.de