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A Framework for a Business Intelligence-Enabled Adaptive Enterprise Architecture

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The environments in which businesses currently operate are dynamic and constantly changing, with influence from external and internal factors. When businesses evolve, leading to changes in business objectives, it is hard to determine and visualize what direct Information System responses are needed to respond to these changes. This paper introduces an enterprise architecture framework which allows for anticipating and supporting proactively, adaptation in enterprise architectures as and when the business evolves. This adaptive framework exploits and models relationships between business objectives of important stakeholders, decisions related to these objectives, and Information Systems that support these decisions. This framework exploits goal modeling in a Business Intelligence context. The tool-supported framework was assessed against different levels and types of changes in a real enterprise architecture of a Canadian government department, with encouraging results.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada

    Okhaide Akhigbe & Daniel Amyot

  2. Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada

    Gregory Richards

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  1. Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, 140 St. George St., M5S 3G6, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Eric Yu

  2. Dept of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, 1142, Auckland, New Zealand

    Gillian Dobbie

  3. Lehrstuhl Informatik 5, RWTH Aachen University, Ahornstr. 55, 52056, Aachen, Germany

    Matthias Jarke

  4. Penn State University, 316B Information Sciences and Technology Building, 16802, University Park, PA, USA

    Sandeep Purao

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Akhigbe, O., Amyot, D., Richards, G. (2014). A Framework for a Business Intelligence-Enabled Adaptive Enterprise Architecture. In: Yu, E., Dobbie, G., Jarke, M., Purao, S. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8824. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12206-9_33

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