Towards an integrated service-oriented reference enterprise architecture

The paper describes a new Metamodel-based integration approach for Service-oriented Reference Enterprise Architectures, which identifies affected decisions by runtime changes of a service-oriented runtime environment and architecture.

Abstract

New business information systems are integrating emerging cloud infrastructures with service-oriented platforms and intelligent user-centered mobile systems. Both architecture engineering and management of service-oriented enterprise architectures is complex and has to integrate synergistic disciplines like EAM - Enterprise Architecture and Management for Services & Cloud Computing, Semantic-based Decision Support through Ontologies and Knowledge-based Systems, Big Data Management, as well as Mobility and Collaboration Systems. It is necessary to identify affected decisions by runtime changes of a service-oriented runtime environment and architecture. We have to make transparent the impact of these changes over the integral landscape of affected EAM-capabilities, like directly and transitively impacted business categories, processes, applications, services, platforms and infrastructures. The paper describes a new Metamodel-based integration approach for Service-oriented Reference Enterprise Architectures.