Architecture of Integrated Information Systems: Foundations of Enterprise Modelling

by August-Wilhelm Scheer

Overview

The creation and implementation of integrated information systems involves a variety of collaborators including people from specialist departments. informatics. external advisers and manufacturers. They need clear rules and l1mits within which they can process their individual sub-tasks. in order to ensure the logical consistency of the entire project. An architecture therefore needs to be established to determine the components that make up the information system and the methods to be used to deSCribe it. Whereas previously. individual descriptive viewpoints such as the functional representation or the data model have dominated. this book creates an architecture within which the function. organization. and data views of an information system throughout the development phases of the requirements definition. design specification and the implementation deSCription can be given equal treatment. The ARIS architecture thereby developed is deSCribed in concrete terms as an information model within the entity-relationship approach. This information model provides the basis for the systematic and rational application of methods in the development of information systems. Furthermore. it is also the basis for a repository in which the enterprise's application-specific data. organization and function models can be stored. An essential property of the ARIS architecture is that the various views are not only considered in isolation. but a control view also represents their relationships with each other. As a result. new developments such as distributed databases or object-oriented approaches can be incorporated in the architecture. I would like to thank Irene Cameron for her careful translation of the German original.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642973918
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	02/29/2012
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Pages:	219
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

A. Conception of the ARIS Architecture for Integrated Information Systems.- A.I The Process Chain Model as Starting Point for Developing the Architecture.- A.II Derivation of the Aris Architecture by Structuring the Process Chain Model.- A.III Representation of Information Models.- A.IV Comparison of ARIS with other Architectural Concepts.- A.V Incorporating the Procedural Model for Creating Information Systems.- A.VI Structure of the Remainder of the Book.- B. Development of the ARIS Information Model (Meta-Information System).- B.I Process Chain Analysis (Recording the Semantic Starting Position).- B.II Modelling the Requirements Definition.- B.III Design Specification.- B.IV Design of the Implementation Description.- B.V The ARIS Information Model.- References.