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International Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research

PRET 2012, TEAR 2012: Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research and Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation pp 21–39Cite as

Challenges for Automated Enterprise Architecture Documentation

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 131))

Abstract

Currently the documentation of an Enterprise Architecture (EA) is performed manually to a large extent. Due to the intrinsic complexity of today’s organizations this task is challenging and often perceived as very time-consuming and error-prone. Recent efforts in research and industry seek to automate EA documentation by retrieving and maintaining relevant information from productive systems. In this paper major challenges for an automated EA documentation are presented based on 1) a practical example from a global acting enterprise of the German fashion industry, 2) a literature review, and 3) a survey among 123 EA practitioners. The identified challenges are synthesized to four categories and constitute the foundation for future research efforts and pose new questions not yet considered.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen, Müller-Friedberg-Strasse 8, 9000, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Stephan Aier

  2. Industrial Information and Control Systems, Royal Institute of Technology, Osquldas väg 10, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Mathias Ekstedt

  3. Chair for Informatics 19 (sebis), Technische Universität München (TUM), Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748, Garching bei München, Germany

    Florian Matthes

  4. CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Erik Proper

  5. IBM Research, San Jose, California, USA

    Jorge L. Sanz

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Hauder, M., Matthes, F., Roth, S. (2012). Challenges for Automated Enterprise Architecture Documentation. In: Aier, S., Ekstedt, M., Matthes, F., Proper, E., Sanz, J.L. (eds) Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research and Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation. PRET TEAR 2012 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34163-2_2

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