A role-based enterprise architecture framework

ABSTRACT

Organizations deal with contrasting domains such as people, strategy, business processes, and information systems as well as with their representation, alignment and governance. In this setting, different approaches to enterprise architecture have been introduced to address these concerns. This paper focuses on describing an enterprise architecture framework centered in three core concepts (role, entity and activity) from which domain-specific concepts are derived from. The framework abstracts the organization's domains as five architectural views (organization, business, information, application and technology) and captures the concept dependencies and relationships across the different domains.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
      H.1.0 General

Additional Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.6 SIMULATION AND MODELING
      I.6.5 Model Development

Keywords:
alignment, business process modeling, enterprise architecture, role modeling