Sebis Research News

The article "Towards a More Integrated EA Planning: Linking Transformation Planning with Evolutionary Change" has been accepted for publication at EMISA 2011. In the article, the author team (Stefan Aier, Sabine Buckl, Bettina Gleichauf, Florian Matthes, Christian M. Schweda and Robert Winter) describe how bottom-up change and maintenance processes for the EA can be interlinked both methodically and conceptually with top-down evolutionary planning.

In the paper titled "Applying the Concept of Building Blocks for Enterprise Architecture Management Solutions in Practice" the author team (Ingrid Prem, Ivan Monahov, Sabine Buckl, Florian Matthes) detail how the method building blocks of (BEAMS) can be applied in practice by presenting a case study from the public sector.

In the report titled "On the State-of-the-Art in Enterprise Architecture Management Literature" the author team (Sabine Buckl and Christian M. Schweda) investigate the state-of-the-art in EAM literature. As key part of the investigation, they derive a conceptual framework for EA management functions reflecting both the method and the language aspect. Based on this framework, 22 relevant and prominent EAM approaches are analyzed. A short conclusion summarizes the findings of the analysis and discusses future topics for EAM research.

Article on Enterprise Architecture Management Patterns for Enterprise-wide Access Views on Business Objects  accepted at EuroPLoP 2011. The Author team (Sabine Buckl, Florian Matthes, Ivan Monahov, Sascha Roth, Christopher Schulz, and Christian M. Schweda) focuses on the enterprise-wide availability of business objects. Motivated by case studies from industry, the paper describes patterns to analyze and justify an enterprise-wide access matrix. Respective viewpoints are presented facilitating a business object access management on enterprise level. The method and information model concepts are further substantiated by means of case studies.

The article Modeling the supply and demand of architectural information on enterprise level  has been accepted for publication at EDOC 2011. The author team (Sabine Buckl, Andreas Gehlert, Florian Matthes, Christopher Schulz and Christian M. Schweda) discusses the need to focus EA management endeavors in general and the corresponding documentation activities, in particular, on relevant parts of the enterprise. This need is operationalized by a modeling technique to describe the information demands of EA stakeholders. This technique is further applied to make explicit the information supply by different actors in the enterprise. A case study exemplifies the applicability of the techniques and indicates on organizational structures as well as dependencies that can be used for motivating EA actors.