Using Enterprise Ontology as a basis for Requirements for Cross-Organizationally Usable Applications

Developing cross-organizationally usable applications is becoming increasingly important. However, actually re-using business applications has been hindered in practice often by implicit assumptions about organizational and IT implementation. We propose a method to gather requirements for cross- organizationally usable applications that, taking...

Benefits of Enterprise Ontology in Governing Complex Enterprise Transformations

Enterprises increasingly execute complex transformations, such as mergers and splits, chain redesign, sharing and sourcing, and the rationalization of products, processes and applications. Its consequences are seldom sufficiently timely and completely discerned, while this is essential for governing such a transformation. Already in a small...

Modularization and Specification of Service-Oriented Systems

A scientific evaluation of telecom industry standards: Using enterprise ontology and the identification of business components

Alcatel-Lucent Switzerland (ALU) manages the networks of major telecommunication service providers. The extent of these insourced telecom services is described in a Service Level Agreement. It it essential for ALU to comply with the agreed service level, since violation will result in severe penalties. As of this moment, ALU's service desk...

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...

An enterprise ontology based approach to service specification

Businesses operate in ever-changing business environments. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems must constantly adapt in order to meet changing business requirements. Yet, adaptation of ICT systems in order to cope with these changes is difficult, because ICT systems in an organization strongly cohere. Service-oriented...

DEMO applied to Quality Management Systems

Quality Management Systems are to be found in different lines of business and it is quite a challenge to describe an organization's processes as clearly and compactly as possible and such that they still remain comprehensible. The DEMO methodology models the essence of an organization and claims to be coherent, consistent, comprehensive and...

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...

Applying Architecture and Ontology to the Splitting and Allying of Enterprises

Organizations increasingly split off parts and start cooperating with those parts, for instance in Shared Service Centers or by using in- or outsourcing. What is the right spot and way for finding the organization split? And on what subjects should organizations agree to cooperate effectively across the organization split? To find managerial...