DEMO and Security

This thesis is aimed at exploring how security aspects within organizations can be addressed at a very high level: an ontological level that encapsulates construction and operation issues of organizations with no reference to implementation concerns. To do this, DEMO (Dynamic Engineering and Modeling for Organizations) has been found as the...

Towards the agile enterprise: A method to come from a DEMO model to a Normalized System, applied to Government Subsidy Schemes

Because of the changing needs of enterprises, raised by the changing market among other reasons, the needs of its supporting information system(s) will also change. Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations (DEMO), from Delft University of Technology, has already proven to be an effective tool in designing and realizing agile...

Extending Enterprise Ontology to the Information Layer of the Rijkswaterstaat Enterprise Architecture

Nowadays large organizations are confronted with the increasing complex network of processes, information flows and stakeholders which all should be managed to provide the customer with end products and services. In a utopia, every actor in an organization would be able to have an overview of his area of concern. Management would have a precise...

Using DEMO to Specify the Semantics of Data Message

Effective communication is required for a successful service execution. It can be achieved when both the service consumer and service provider understand the exchanged data message in the same way. Therefore, the specification of the semantics of data message needs to be explicitly defined in the service specification. Six requirements for...

The adoption of DEMO in practice

DEMO is a methodology for designing and engineering organizations which is mostly used for Information System Development (ISD) and redesigning the business processes. DEMO has the ability to reduce the complexity of an organization by providing an ontological model of that organization. Although DEMO has promising advantages and has provided...

Enterprise Ontology, does it care?

The domains of healthcare and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are very different. In healthcare, human beings are in the center of attention. When considering the domain of ICT, computing and connectivity first come to mind. It is suggested that the first step in bridging the gap between the two domains is to focus on the essence...

An Enterprise Ontology based approach to Model-Driven Engineering

Because of the lack of a significant increase of productivity in the last 20 years we are still in a huge need for increasing the return a company derives from its software development effort. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) aims to raise the level of abstraction in application modeling and increase automation in application development, thereby...

A Roadmap for the Transition from Paper to Digital Records

Nowadays there are a lot of innovative activities going on in the youth care sector. One of the innovations is using digital client records instead of paper client records and in the future online access to digital records for clients. Before an organisation can make client records accessible through the internet, they have to professionalize...

DEMO applied to Financial Services

Often organizations do not exactly know what they desire, when it comes to information systems. Professional companies like ForMetis are needed to give advice and design tailor made information systems for organizations that have the need of it. To do so, one usually uses a software developing methodology. ForMetis has developed such a...

Extending the DEMO methodology for determining information systems requirements

High competition and the need to meet market demand are some reasons behind the exploitation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to automate activities within an enterprise. The Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations (DEMO) methodology provides a powerful way of thinking to deal with enterprise complexity. It gives a...

A Well-Founded Framework for Assessing IT-Systems by The Suriname Ministry of Finance

The government of Suriname, like any other government of development countries, copes with a number of limitations. Among others, the government lacks of IT policies and IT awareness. The challenge for the Suriname government, and therefore the Ministry of Finance, is to obtain means by which IT policy and IT decisions are steered in a...

The Added Value of Enterprise Architecture

Applying architecture implies that it provides added value across an enterprise. Although widely adopted, this claim has only been scarcely investigated, not to mention quantified. This document describes the results of a case study to quantify the effects of applying Enterprise Architecture within a financial institution called FinCom. For...

Orchestration of (chain-) processes in subsidy agencies: Developing a generic subsidy orchestration system

The Netherlands houses a great variety of subsidy agencies, each very different in their organizational and operational approach to achieve their goal (the distribution of subsidies). These subsidy agencies share the common problem of being unable to adapt their subsidy system quickly due to a high grade of customization in their information...