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On the Development of Enterprise-Grade Tool Support for the DEMO Method

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The Design and Engineering Methodology for Organisations (DEMO) is a core method within the discipline of Enterprise Engineering (EE). It enables the creation of so-called essential models of organisations. Such models are enterprise models that focus on the organisational essence of an organisation. They do so primarily in terms of the actor roles involved, and the business transactions between them. The DEMO method has a firm theoretical foundation. At the same time, there is increasing uptake of DEMO in practice. This uptake also results in a need for enterprise-grade tool support for the use of the method. In this experience paper, we report on experiences in the development of enterprise-grade tool support for the practical use of DEMO.

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Notes

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    http://www.ee-institute.org/en

    https://www.linkedin.com/company/enterprise-engineering-institute.

  2. 2.

    Even though we can not claim to have conducted an in-depth literature survey on the term “enterprise-grade”, the papers we did find (through a basic google scholar search) left the definition implicit.

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    https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:29481:-2:ed-1:v1:en.

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    Created by e.g. Bakker&Spees, Technia, Future Insight, and Formetis.

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  4. University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

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Mulder, M.A.T., Proper, H.A. (2021). On the Development of Enterprise-Grade Tool Support for the DEMO Method. In: La Rosa, M., Sadiq, S., Teniente, E. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12751. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79382-1_30

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