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On Enterprise-Grade Tool Support for DEMO

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The Design and Engineering Methodology for Organisations (DEMO) is a core method within the discipline of enterprise engineering. It enables the creation of so-called essential models of enterprises. Such models are enterprise models that aim to focus on the organisational essence of an enterprise by leaving out (as much as possible) details of the socio-technical implementation. The organisational essence is then expressed primarily in terms of the actor roles involved, and the business transactions between these roles. The DEMO method has a firm theoretical foundation. At the same time, there is an increasing uptake of DEMO in practice. This also results in a need for enterprise-grade tool support for the use of the method. In this paper, we report on a study concerning the selection, configuration, and extension, of an enterprise-grade tool platform to support the use of DEMO in practice. The configuration of the selected tool framework to support DEMO modelling, provided general insights regarding the development of enterprise-grade tool support for (model-driven) methods such as DEMO, while also providing feedback on the consistency and completeness of the DEMO specification language; the specification language that accompanies the DEMO method.

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

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

  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.

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

  4. These examples are from the training case Poligyn of DEMO 3 training, also available in Ch.17 [8].

  5. The ‘Voorwaarden scheppen voor de Invoering van Standaardisatie ICT in de bouw’ (VISI) standard originates from the construction sector, where a considerable workflow automation group has developed a DEMO-based set of standards.

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

  7. DEMO is a non-domain specific methodology which allows us to use the tool throughout the various domains.

  8. https://demo.nl/download/demo-specification-language-4-6-1/?wpdmdl=842.

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We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers from both the Software and Systems Modeling journal as well as the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM 2020) conference. Their feedback has resulted in many improvements to the original paper. In addition, we would like to thank the participants of PoEM 2020, for their participation in the on-line discussions regarding the original version of this paper. These discussions have also provided us with additional inspirations for improvements to this paper.

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Mulder, M.A.T., Proper, H.A. On Enterprise-Grade Tool Support for DEMO. Softw Syst Model 21, 1341–1361 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-021-00911-z

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