Sebis Research News

The article EAM Patterns: Best Practices for Enterprise Architecture Management has been published in the Architecture and Governance (A&G) magazine. In this article the author team (Sabine Buckl, Alexander Ernst, Christian M. Schweda) emphasize on the difficulties connected to establishing an enterprise-specific EAM approach. As a possible solution, they propose to EAM patterns as documented in EAM Pattern Catalog wiki.

The article A Pattern-based Approach to Quantitative Enterprise Architecture Analysis has been accepted for publication at the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS2009). This article is a joint effort of authors from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, the Technische Universität Berlin, and sebis. The author team (S.Buckl, U. Franke, O.Holschke, F.Matthes, C.M.Schweda, T.Sommestad, J.Ullberg) discuss an approach to use EAM pattern, especially information model pattern, together with qualitative annotations for dependencies between properties to derive a quantitative schema for performing EA analyses.

The technical report State of the art in Enterprise Architecture Management has been published and is available for download at the website of sebis. In this report, the author team (S.Buckl, A.M.Ernst, J.Lankes, F.Matthes, and C.M.Schweda) presents the results of a survey on the state of the art in EA management, conducted from 2006-2008. Therein, different understandings of the term EA management as found in practice are discussed as well as the importance of visualizations as communication basis is emphasized.

Prof. Matthes gives a talk enterprise 2.0 platforms at the IT-Stammtisch München. The event takes place at Jagdschloss Hotel, Alte Alle 21 in Munich. The talk will provide an overview on commercial and open-source enterprise web collaboration platforms (Quickr, Sharepoint, Confluence, Jive, Alfresco) and sketch the results from a technical analysis.

The article Improved Feedback for Architectural Performance Prediction using Software Cartography Visualizations has been accepted for publication at the 5th International Conference on the Quality of Software Architecture (QoSA2009). This article is a joint effort of authors from the chair of Prof. Reussner (University of Karlsruhe) and sebis. The author team (K.Krogmann, C.M.Schweda, S-Buckl, M.Kuperberg, A.Martens, F.Matthes, and R.Reussner) discuss the state-of-the-art in visualizing the results of architectural performance predictions. They elaborate on the difficulties, user have with the current visualizations and propose a software cartography based alternative visualization technique. An empirical survey gives indications, that this technique can improve user understanding of the information.