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Defining System Architecture
Published in John P.T. Mo, Ronald C. Beckett, Engineering and Operations of System of Systems, 2018
An enterprise is not a naturally evolved phenomenon. It needs to be formed within society. To assist the formation of enterprises, enterprise modeling is used to take some standard templates of enterprises and use them to plan for its development. The objectives of enterprise modeling are: Integration of the enterprise business processIntegration of the enterprise information systemFacilitation of effective communication and interaction among the enterprise participantsProvision of support for sound decision-making
Enterprise Modeling
Published in Vivek Kale, Enterprise Process Management Systems, 2018
Enterprise modeling is the process of creating an integrated enterprise model that captures the aspects of the enterprise required for the modeling purpose at hand. An enterprise model consists of a number of related submodels, each focusing on a particular aspect of the enterprise, for example, processes, business rules, concepts/information, vision/goals, or actors. An enterprise model describes the current or future state of an enterprise and contains the commonly shared enterprise knowledge of the stakeholders involved in the modeling process. The role of an enterprise model is to achieve model-driven enterprise design, analysis, and operation.
Application of Reference Architectures for Enterprise Integration
Published in Cornelius Leondes, Computer-Aided Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing, 2019
The methodologies and the languages used for enterprise modeling are supported by enterprise modeling tools. The modeling process is enhanced by using reference models that provide reusable models of human roles, processes, and technologies. The operational use of enterprise models is supported by specific modules that provide prefabricated products such as human skill profiles for specific professions, common business procedures (e.g., banking and tax rules), or IT infrastructure services.
Bridging the Strategy Execution Gap of Designing Intelligent Talent Acquisition Systems Using Enterprise Modelling and Simulation
Published in Enterprise Information Systems, 2023
Amjad Fayoumi, Pericles Loucopoulos
This paper presents a multi-view approach for building intelligent talent acquisition systems that integrates enterprise modelling and simulation. The approach can offer an understanding of the dynamic behaviour of the enterprise by quantifying ‘what-if’ scenarios. The scenarios are typically relying on sets of assumptions to support predictions of future needs for talents. The approach incorporates the continuous alignment of the enterprise’s strategy, operation and IS by using an extension of the BMM. A set of enterprise modelling languages are used, namely SBVR, BPMN, decision tables and SoaML. The qualitative exploration is performed by means of the design rationale tool, while the simulation is based on the use of SD modelling. Enterprise modelling and simulation outcomes are used to develop software services for the intelligent talent acquisition system. The software services were chosen and developed from one of the four alternative processes that is considered the most aligned to the company’s capabilities and resources at the time of the study.
Enterprise modelling: from early languages to models transformation
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2018
During the last 30 years, enterprise modelling has been recognised as an efficient tool to externalise the knowledge of the company in order to understand its operations, to analyse its running and to design new systems from several points of view: functions, processes, decisions, resources, information technology. This paper has shown that enterprise modelling methods evolved all along this period, based on theoretical concerns but also on practitioner matters. After a phase of divergence with many developments in parallel and then attempts of reconciliation (from modelling frameworks towards UEML), this is now the phase of usage when enterprise modelling is less and less used as a stand-alone approach but rather as a component of larger engineering methods (such as MDA and enterprise engineering). Several model driven approaches have been defined and experimented from business modelling through simulation in order to get an efficient usage of these methods. Then the coupling of enterprise modelling with simulation is a very promising approach. In this way, because the system is not only considered during its design phase but also during its exploitation, enterprise modelling does not stay as an approach usable only during the design time but moves closer to run-time. This trend is fully consistent with the industry 4.0 objectives. In this sense, enterprise models move to be used during the total enterprise life cycle. This trend provides a very exciting scientific challenge for the next future.
A novel approach to measuring enterprise procurement decision process: an information distance perspective
Published in Enterprise Information Systems, 2020
Xiong Li, Xiaodong Zhao, Wei Pu
As graphical business process modelling formalisms, some qualitative and empirical methods, for example, Unified Modelling Language (UML) activity diagram, Event-driven Process Chain (EPC), and Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN), have been widely and successfully applied in enterprise modelling.