Modeling techniques for enterprise architecture documentation: experiences from practice.
Thomas Trojer, Matthias Farwick, Martin Haeusler · 2014
Abstract. Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) is an IT-man-agement process in which the relationships of business services, applica-tions and the underlying IT-infrastructure is modeled. With dedicated EA models, activities such as architectural consolidation, planning and risk analysis are facilitated. A key factor in modeling and document-ing enterprise architectures is the the underlying meta-model that en-ables to capture the information demand of an organization. Current EA tools provide no or only inflexible mechanisms to create and evolve such organization-specific meta-models. Therefore we present a novel modeling framework that has been established from a consulting and a research project with two data centers. It makes use of both, concepts from multi-level modeling and classical three-level modeling and sepa-rates structural and ontological model ingredients. A key aspect of the presented approach is the separation of modeling tasks across different stakeholders and modeling levels and the favoring of practical usability over language feature richness. 1