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The Application of Enterprise Reference Architecture in the Financial Industry

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Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research and Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET 2012, TEAR 2012)

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

Abstract

Financial institutions are facing enormous challenges in business / IT alignment. Enterprise architecture (EA) is seen as key in addressing these challenges. Major issues still exist in EA design and realization. The concept of reference architecture is explored as one of the elements that are essential to improve the quality of architectural work. In this paper we describe the research agenda to ERA. First we provide a working definition for the concept of Enterprise Reference Architecture (ERA). Second we provide a conceptual model wherein ERA is positioned. The research is based on Design Science and is now in the first explorative phase. Pilot interviews were held with the objective to validate the model. Preliminary results show that the model is recognized and give also insight in current needs for ERA.

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  1. Capgemini, Papendorpseweg 100, P.O. Box 2575, 3500 GN, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Wijke ten Harmsen van der Beek

  2. School of Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, Den Dolech 2, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Jos Trienekens & Paul Grefen

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  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

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ten Harmsen van der Beek, W., Trienekens, J., Grefen, P. (2012). The Application of Enterprise Reference Architecture in the Financial Industry. 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_6

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