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Enterprise Systems
Architecture and
Technology
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IT Management
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Chair(s): Randy V Bradley, Norbert Gronau, Peter Loos, Utako Tanigawa@itecintl.com
University Affiliation: (1) University of Tennessee, (2) University of
Potsdam, (3) Institute for Information
Systems (IWi) at DFKI, University of Saarland, (4) Itec International, LLC
Phone: +1-865-974-1761
SIG URL:
Description:
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Enterprise Systems has been an active area of
organizational, technical, and educational research for a decade, and since
1999 AMCIS has devoted one or more tracks to Enterprise Systems topics. The
Enterprise Systems Architecture and Technology minitrack
is one of three minitracks sponsored this year by
the Special Interest Group on Enterprise Systems. Come join an active
community of scholars interested in issues related to this important topic.
Dynamic changes in the business environment, such as
takeovers or the entering of new markets, require the flexible development
and adaptation of enterprise systems.
Along with new business demands, new technologies and architectures
also arise and require procedures and methods so they can be integrated into
the design and evolution of information systems. Additionally, business
people, such as consultants, and technical people, such as programmers and
software architects, need the same views on data and business processes
filtered by their special needs to enhance the quality and speed of information
systems creation. To accomplish this, it is also essential to provide and
evaluate engineering techniques and process models to fit the specific
needs. Enterprise
architecture coupled with model-driven development can help to solve such
integration and design issues.
An enterprise architecture is a representation of dependencies
between the most important aggregate business specifications (e.g. goals,
products/services, value propositions, risks, opportunities), the most
important aggregate organizational specifications (e.g. business processes,
performance indicators, information objects, organizational structures),
and the most important aggregate information systems specifications (e.g.
functionalities, data, interfaces, applications). It is believed that the
development, implementation, and use of enterprise architecture can enable
better management of IT and organizational resources. Although the
difficulty and complexity of development, implementation, and use of
enterprise architectures can be extremely high, the potential rewards can
also be very substantial.
This mini-track invites papers that examine enterprise
architecture and enterprise systems technology in the context of their relationships
with other organizational and IT resources, including enterprise systems.
General questions include: (a) how is an enterprise architecture developed,
deployed, maintained, and embedded into information management and into
organizational development; (b) what is the value proposition of enterprise
architecture; (c) how do IT managers, business managers, and end-users
benefit from participating in the development and implementation process;
(d) what is the complementarity of the enterprise
architecture with other organizational resources; (e) how are enterprise
systems and enterprise architecture interlinked; and (f) how, with regard
to use, does a firm reap the proposed benefits of the enterprise
architecture?
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The mini-track will focus on:
- Reference
architectures on business, organizational, and systems level
- Specific architecture
views on issues such as risk mitigation, integration, strategic
alignment, balancing reusability, standardization, quality control, or
performance management
- Enterprise architecture in relation to specific
application scenarios and technologies (e.g. supply chains, lean
manufacturing, product lifecycle management, outsourcing, SOA, RFID, Web
services, mobile access to enterprise applications)
- Economic justification and organizational
issues (e.g. roles and responsibilities) of enterprise architecture or
service oriented architectures
- Technologies and tools
for supporting enterprise architecture and systems development and
maintenance (e.g. business process modeling, model transformation, MDA)
- CEO/CIO partnership and enterprise architecture
development
- Issues pertaining to enterprise architecture
and inter-and intra-organizational integration of ES
- Decoupling of
enterprise architecture, IS development projects, and information
management
- Enterprise architecture as a foundation for integration
and interoperability between emerging technologies and platforms and
legacy systems
- Enterprise architecture implementation practices
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