Teaching Enterprise Integration and Architecture – Tools, Patterns, and Model Problems

This paper describes the design and delivery of a new course introducing the joint topics of enterprise integration andenterprise architecture. Planned for an Information Technology curriculum, the course sits at the crossroads of ComputerScience and Information Systems and is intended for upper level undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees inany of these three disciplines. The course builds from an introduction to business operating models into a study of enterprisearchitecture and finishes with a design project in enterprise integration. The ArchiMate enterprise architecture modelingstandard is applied using an open source tool. Model problems are developed in the tool to motivate class lectures and studentdesign assignments. Design patterns form the basis of learning recurring solutions of integration problems. A final projectchallenges students to respond to a Request for Proposal to provide integration consulting services to a recently mergedenterprise business

Motivation-oriented Architecture Modelling for e-Healthcare Prosumption

The enterprise architecture (EA) is a coherent and consistent set of principles and rules that guide system design. In EA modelling methods, an enterprise is identified with institution, business or administrative unit, a firm or an industrialized region. Enterprise architecture is also considered as strategic information assets, which determine the business mission, the technology necessary to perform the mission, the transitional processes for implementing new technologies in response to the changing mission needs. In this paper, the human i.e., stakeholders\u27 roles are emphasized as well as the motivation orientation in the enterprise architecture development is discussed. The following questions are formulated: who is the stakeholder of the EA, who is accountable and responsible for EA development, and what goals, constraints, and values are realized in the stakeholder activities\u27 processes for the organization mission and vision by example of e-healthcare prosumption system