Quality framework for quality assuring enterprise architecture model

Abstract

Modeling is a means to help simplify the facts without losing the elements that are important to be represented. Enterprise modeling (EM) is a process which is made for generating enterprise models that can then be used as documentation, communication, diagnosis, analysis, discussion and in the future as an enterprise planning. There are several approaches to do EM, one of them is by using architecture approach. The Enterprise Architecture (EA) approach aims to provide a better understanding of an increasingly complex enterprise by illustrating the relationship between concepts from multiple domains such as strategy, processes, applications and information on a model. Unfortunately enterprises often fail to benefit from the development of EA models that cost money and time. This is because the EA model does not have a high quality. Therefore, the representation that has a high quality in one model is very important in its effort to understand the complexity of real word that exist through the enterprise domain. This paper will discuss 2 (two) parts of quality framework commonly used to determine the quality factor of the conceptual model that can be adopted to determine the quality factor of the EA model. Each framework has the advantages and disadvantages. This paper contains an analysis of 2 (two) framework of CMQF and Sequal in determining the quality factor for Enterprise Architecture model. Conseptual Modeling Quality Frameworks (CMQF) are typically used to define quality factors in conceptual models. Therefore, the collaboration of 2 (two) quality frameworks, CMQF and Sequal, are expected to produce a comprehensive quality factor for EA model.