Using agent oriented technology on developing an effective enterprise architecture implementation methodology

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a holistic view of an enterprise, including the business, Information Technology, and infrastructure. EA is managed, developed, and maintained through Enterprise Architecture Implementation Methodology (EAIM). There are complexities in current EAIM's method, practice, and modelling, which cause the ineffectiveness of EA implementation. The objective of this study is to present the current problems of existing EAIMs and highlight the application of Agent Oriented Technology (AOT) on developing an effective EAIM, which can address the ineffectiveness of EA implementation. Several Agent-Oriented Methodologies (AOM) have been proposed in literature for developing an application and they have potentials in their modelling methods, practices, and development phases, which can contribute on developing an effective EAIM. This contribution can effect on improvement of EA implementation by reducing the complexity of EA implementation, increasing the alignment between business and IT, providing appropriate requirement analysis for developing, and reducing impedance mismatches between different development phases. This research opens new topics in AOT and EA domain, which would follow by other researcher and extend the usage of AOT in IT and Information Systems

Pemodelan Arsitektur Enterprise Untuk Mendukung Sistem Informasi Manajemen Menggunakan Enterprise Architecture Di Stmik Bani Saleh

Achievement of the purpose of an enterprise face many challenges and changes that need a strategy for effective measures and efficient resource utilization. One strategy is important and increasingly used is the utilization and increased support for enterprise information systems. The implementation of this strategy on a mission elicits information system whose fulfillment requires an integrated way in the planning, implementation and control are aligned with enterprise business strategy. Development strategy for the fulfillment of the mission of information systems starting from planning to identify information needs and the possibility of using technology innovation to increase the performance of the enterprise. This planning can take advantage of Enterprise Architecture Planning methodology that produces data architecture, application architecture, technology architecture and implementation plan for the enterprise direction. Implementation plan in the form of a sequence of application development and migration / acquisition technology platform elaborated according to aspects of the business as a key driver, organizational aspects for the determination of the role of the resources of the perpetrators of implementation, the environmental aspects of information systems and information technology to bridge the state systems of today and that will be realized , as well as aspects of the application development mempertautkan the development stage with other development stages

Planning strategically, designing architecturally : a framework for digital library services

In an era of unprecedented technological innovation and evolving user expectations and information seeking behaviour, we are arguably now an online society, with digital services increasingly common and increasingly preferred. As a trusted information provider, libraries are in an advantageous position to respond, but this requires integrated strategic and enterprise architecture planning, for information technology (IT) has evolved from a support role to a strategic role, providing the core management systems, communication networks, and delivery channels of the modern library. Further, IT components do not function in isolation from one another, but are interdependent elements of distributed and multidimensional systems encompassing people, processes, and technologies, which must consider social, economic, legal, organisational, and ergonomic requirements and relationships, as well as being logically sound from a technical perspective. Strategic planning provides direction, while enterprise architecture strategically aligns and holistically integrates business and information system architectures. While challenging, such integrated planning should be regarded as an opportunity for the library to evolve as an enterprise in the digital age, or at minimum, to simply keep pace with societal change and alternative service providers. Without strategy, a library risks being directed by outside forces with independent motivations and inadequate understanding of its broader societal role. Without enterprise architecture, it risks technological disparity, redundancy, and obsolescence. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this conceptual paper provides an integrated framework for strategic and architectural planning of digital library services. The concept of the library as an enterprise is also introduced

Designing a consulting services architecture model

textDuring my years of experience in the technology industry, it has become obvious that standard processes and methodologies within the engineering discipline are at a mature state. The realization though is that software engineering specifically lags behind. Most software engineering methodologies that I have studied focus on the mission of software development. It is this realization and the need for structure that led me to review existing methodologies used within my company's software services organization. The definition of what a successful software services methodology entails is rather limited. This report will provide a history of existing software engineering methodologies that I have studied, describe an initial services method that was being developed within my organization, develop a new model that addresses previous shortcomings and identify additional components required to further define a strong software services-oriented delivery methodology.Electrical and Computer Engineerin

Methodological Approaches to Modeling Information Architecture of the Organization in the Conditions of Digital Economy

It is significant for businesses, especially in the digital economy, the solution of theoretical and methodological justifications and the development of practical recommendations for building an organization\u27s information architecture as a holistic description of its key strategies, related to business, information, application systems and technologies, and also their impact on the functions and business processes of an organization. The article discusses issues, related to methodological approaches to modeling an organization\u27s information architectureб using information management tools to help manage innovation in information systems (IS) and information technologies (IT). The relevance of organizational provisions to determine the way, in which a business entity\u27s business model is functionally integrated with the IS architecture is substantiated. The consideration and analysis of the use of industrial standards for describing the architecture of an organization, adopted by such institutions as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), The Open Group, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), etc. reveal that none of these standards is dominant and does not provide teams, responsible for the architecture development with all the tools, necessary from the methodological point of view and from the point of view of the templates, used to describe the architecture. Recommendations are given on the theoretical and methodological substantiation and construction of the information architecture of an organization as a complete description of its key strategies related to business, information, application systems and technologies, as well as their impact on the functions and business processes of an organization

Knowledge Management for Public Administrations: Technical Realizations of an Enterprise Attention Management System

The improvement of governments’ efficiency has gained great importance and validity especially in the current times of economic downturn. E-Government constitutes the most contemporary techno-managerial proposition in the track of possible interventions. The paper addresses, more specifically, empowerments necessitated by Public Administration (PA) organizations. Anchored on the needs of three real-life cases, the paper describes the conception and the realization of an IT artefact together with its methodological appeals aiming at improving information access and delivery and thus PAs’ decision making capacity. Our proposition constitutes a novel approach for managing users’ attention in knowledge intensive organizations which goes beyond informing a user about changes in relevant information towards proactively supporting the user to react on changes. The approach is based on an expressive attention model, which is realized by combining ECA (Event-Condition-Action) rules with ontologies. The technical realizations described in the paper constitute the underlying infrastructure of an Enterprise Attention Management System