1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910298985903321

Autore

Snoeck Monique

Titolo

Enterprise Information Systems Engineering : The MERODE Approach / / by Monique Snoeck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-10145-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XX, 280 p. 178 illus., 27 illus. in color.)

Collana

The Enterprise Engineering Series, , 1867-8920

Disciplina

620.001171

Soggetti

Application software

Management information systems

Software engineering

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

Enterprise Architecture

Software Engineering

Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Enterprise Modelling -- Chapter 2. From demand to supply: layers & model quality -- Chapter 3. Overview of MERODE -- Chapter 4. The existence dependency graph -- Chapter 5. Object interaction -- Chapter 6. Object and system behaviour -- Chapter 7. Attributes and constraints -- Chapter 8. Inheritance -- Chapter 9. The information system service layer -- Chapter 10. Bridging business process modelling and domain modelling -- Chapter 11. Model transformation -- Chapter 12. Application and component integration.

Sommario/riassunto

The increasing penetration of IT in organizations calls for an integrative perspective on enterprises and their supporting information systems. MERODE offers an intuitive and practical approach to enterprise modelling and using these models as core for building enterprise information systems. From a business analyst perspective, benefits of the approach are its simplicity and the possibility to evaluate the consequences of modeling choices through fast prototyping, without requiring any technical experience. The focus on domain modelling



ensures the development of a common language for talking about essential business concepts and of a shared understanding of business rules. On the construction side, experienced benefits of the approach are a clear separation between specification and implementation, more generic and future-proof systems, and an improved insight in the cost of changes. A first distinguishing feature is the method’s grounding in process algebra provides clear criteria and practical support for model quality. Second, the use of the concept of business events provides a deep integration between structural and behavioral aspects. The clear and intuitive semantics easily extend to application integration (COTS software and Web Services). Students and practitioners are the book’s main target audience, as both groups will benefit from its practical advice on how to create complete models which combine structural and behavioral views of a system-to-be and which can readily be transformed into code, and on how to evaluate the quality of those models. In addition, researchers in the area of conceptual or enterprise modelling will find a concise overview of the main findings related to the MERODE project. The work is complemented by a wealth of extra material on the author’s web page at KU Leuven, including a free CASE tool with code generator, a collection of cases with solutions, and a set of domain modelling patterns that have been developed on the basis of the method’s use in industry and government.