Digital Enterprise Architecture Research Articles

Distributed Digital Enterprise Architecture for Transformation of Educational Organizations

Distributed Digital Enterprise Architecture for Transformation of Educational Organizations

The Circular Digital Cockpit: Towards an actionable framework for life cycle circularity assessment and decision

Digital solutions such as IoT, machine learning, big data, and simulation platforms are increasingly integrated into industrial practices but are not fully leveraged for enhancing circularity in the value chain. To address this, the Circular Digital Cockpit (CDC) framework is proposed to aid manufacturers and public authorities in transitioning towards circularity. The CDC is structured to analyze and improve organizational activities, incorporating Data Science, Digital Enterprise Architecture, and Circular Economy Strategies. It comprises two main parts. The first, "Measure, Understand, Prioritize", focuses on transforming lifecycle data into circularity indicators suitable for various organizational roles, like product and process managers. This helps in prioritizing improvement objectives both individually and organization-wide. The second part, “Act – Imagine, Simulate, Decide, Deploy –, Monitor”, guides each actor in developing and implementing actions aimed at circularity and sustainability goals. This involves assembling a global action plan and employing the Theory of Change methodology to assess and refine these actions based on their impact on circularity and sustainability. The CDC's adaptability and potential in enhancing circular practices across various industries and territorial levels are tested in diverse scenarios, including the remanufacturing of heavy vehicles, the maintenance of medical devices, and the management of bio-waste and construction waste.

Meeting the demands of change : A clear path to a better digital enterprise architecture

Meeting the demands of change : A clear path to a better digital enterprise architecture

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) System Architecture for Capital Project at Oil and Gas Company

The Enterprise Content Management System (ECM) is an improvement over the Document Management System (DMS) solution. In a DMS solution, corporate documents will be managed at the document level (access rights and document distribution processes) while in an ECM solution, documents can be managed down to the level of content contained in the document. Companies who are engaged in the oil and gas industries, are facing intense business competition and to be able to win the competition, companies must be able to increase their HSE (Health, Safety, and Environmental) supervision. Document content management systems are needed by companies that have capital projects, including oil and gas companies. Before a company builds and implements an ECM solution to manage project capital documents, it is necessary to build a system design architecture so that the built ECM solution can meet user needs in managing documents down to the content level. ECM is one of the enterprise solutions, so an Enterprise Architecture (EA) scale system design is needed with a focus on Digital Enterprise Architecture (DEA). This research produces a reference in the process of making ECM architecture in order to manage project capital documents in oil and gas companies.

Integrated identity and access management metamodel and pattern system for secure enterprise architecture

Identity and access management (IAM) is one of the key components of the secure enterprise architecture for protecting the digital assets of the information systems. The challenge is: How to model an integrated IAM for a secure enterprise architecture to protect digital assets? This research aims to address this question and develops an ontology based integrated IAM metamodel for the secure digital enterprise architecture (EA). Business domain and technology agnostic characteristics of the developed IAM metamodel will allow it to develop IAM models for different types of information systems. Well-known design science research (DSR) methodology was adopted to conduct this research. The developed IAM metamodel is evaluated by using the demonstration method. Furthermore, as a part of the evaluation, a pattern system has been developed, consisting of eight IAM patterns. Each pattern offers a solution to a specific IAM related problem. The outcome of this research indicates that enterprise, IAM and information systems architects and academic researchers can use the proposed IAM metamodel and the pattern system to design and implement situation-specific IAM models within the overall context of a secure EA for information systems.

Digital Enterprise Architecture for Green SPBE in Indonesia

SPBE (Electronic Based Government System) is a legal protection as new breakthroughs in the reform of Indonesian government bureaucracy. The issuance of Presidential Regulation (Perpres) 95/2018 concerning SPBE is expected to be a reference for the transformation from e-Government into i-Government (integrated Government). In the meantime, the government through the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB) is drafting an academic paper on the SPBE Bill. Of the 10 elements contained in Presidential Regulation (Perpres) 95/2018, the second element namely SPBE architecture is a concept known in the world of Information Systems as Enterprise Architecture.Enterprise architecture is a conceptual framework that describes how an enterprise is constructed by defining its primary components and the relationships among these components. In SPBE, the main component is defined as domain, consisting of 6 parts, namely: business process architecture domain, data and information, infrastructure, SPBE applications, security, and SPBE services. Unfortunately, the Presidential Regulation (Perpres) 95/2018 has not regulated the concept of Digital Enterprise Architecture, since between Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Digital Enterprise Architecture (DEA) are two things that are significantly different. If EA merely focuses on structuring the company based on the main frame of reference, then DEA focuses on utilizing digital repositories to create living documents as according to the EA framework so that they are easily accessed, modified and managed at any time following the company's development. This study created a DEA model for SPBE in Indonesia. The model created is adapted to the SPBE architecture by carrying out the concept of a digital repository. With digital repositories, time efficiency, paper savings and change management will be easier to achieve. The model created in this study is expected to be utilized to make SPBE much more efficient and green-minded.

Investigation the Place of BIAN Standard in Digital Banking Enterprise Architecture

Today organizations encounter many issues such as newfound technologies, new business models, and rapid variations. Nowadays, following evolutions in the global context, caused by information and communication technology in the field of trade, industry, and specifically information technology, has impelled organizations, companies, and particularly banks to undergo changes and alter their reaction method to the market. In this way, the role of enterprise architecture and using standards and reference models are crucial to the organizations. Accordingly, the organization that wants to be active in the digital transformation and move towards digital banking should be able to implement an agile enterprise architecture and use reference models such as BIAN. The objective of this article is to investigate the role of Business Architecture Industry Network (BIAN) Standard in moving towards digital banking.

Digital transformation: A systematic literature review

Digital transformation (DT) has emerged as an important phenomenon in the discipline of business and management. The purpose of this paper is to examine intellectual structure of DT research. We conducted a variety of bibliometric and visual analysis methods on DT research published in the 20-year period of 2000–2020. A total of 865 papers from Web of Science were selected for our analysis. Our main path analysis identified 12 important papers in this field, and revealed the three development stages of DT research: the embryonic stage, the development stage, and the thriving stage. We also identified influential countries, institutions, and journals in DT research, and seven research themes including digital business strategy, strategic action field, digital technology, agile digital transformation, digital enterprise architecture, DT of manufacturing, and DT of consulting services. This paper is one of the first studies to examine the knowledge structure of DT research by using citation/co-citation analysis methods. Recommendations for future research directions in DT are provided based on our findings.

Developing an access control management metamodel for secure digital enterprise architecture modeling

AbstractThere is an increasing interest in embedding the security in the design of digital enterprise architecture (EA) modeling platform to secure the digital assets. Access control management (ACM) is one of the key aspects of a secure digital enterprise architecture modeling platform design. Typical enterprise architecture modeling approaches mainly focus on the modeling of business, information, and technology elements. This draws our attention to this important question: how to model ACM for a secure digital EA modeling platform to ensure secure access to digital assets? This article aims to address this important research question in collaboration with our industry partner and developed an ontology‐based ACM metamodel that can be used by enterprises to model their ACM for a particular situation. This research has been conducted using the well‐known action‐design research (ADR) method to develop and evaluate the ACM metamodel for the secure digital EA modeling platform.

Intelligent Decision Management for Architecting Service-Dominant Digital Products

New business opportunities appeared using the potential of the Internet and related digital technologies, like the Internet of Things, services computing, artificial intelligence, cloud, edge, and fog computing, social networks, big data with analytics, mobile systems, collaboration networks, and cyber-physical systems. Companies are transforming their strategy and product base, as well as their culture, processes and information systems to adopt digital transformation or to approach for digital leadership. Digitalization fosters the development of IT environments with many rather small and distributed structures, like the Internet of Things, Microservices, or other micro-granular elements. Digitalization has a substantial impact for architecting the open and complex world of highly distributed digital services and products, as part of a new digital enterprise architecture, which structure and direct service-dominant digital products and services. The present research paper investigates mechanisms for supporting the evolution of digital enterprise architectures with user-friendly methods and instruments of interaction, visualization, and intelligent decision management during the exploration of multiple and interconnected perspectives by an architecture management cockpit.