Enterprise Information Architecture Research Articles

Implementation of Enterprise Architecture Zachman Framework at PT. Shopee Internasional Indonesia (Shopee Application)

The development of information technology and increasingly fierce competition in business life requires companies to have a strong and efficient information architecture to optimize their business. The framework that can be used to develop information architecture is the Zachman Framework. The purpose of this research is to examine the implementation of the Zachman Framework in the context of developing information architecture at Shopee. The results showed that the Zachman Framework provides a comprehensive framework for the development of Shopee's information architecture. Elements of the Zachman Framework such as perspectives (who, what, when, where, why, how), objects (data, activities, networks, people, time, motivation), and usage can be used to describe and organize various aspects of an enterprise's information architecture. The implementation of the Zachman Framework helps Shopee design, analyze, and design information systems that suit the company's business needs and strategies.

Perancangan Enterprise Architecture Sistem Informasi Menggunakan Framework TOGAF ADM 9.2 PT. XYZ

PT.XYZ is a gas oil manufacturing company, which produces offshore oil and gas drilling equipment. In supporting its business processes, this company uses a separate module application which causes data flow to be interrupted and results in the company experiencing delays in managing data and getting information on time. Based on the analysis of the problem, the researcher will design an integrated enterprise information system architecture for sales, finance, raw material procurement, production, project plan, and inventory. The method used is the TOGAF ADM 9.2 framework which consists of four phases, namely the vision architecture, business architecture, information system architecture, and technology architecture phases. This enterprise architecture design produces a blueprint as a guideline or framework in the development of information systems at PT. XYZ. The overall result of this research is to produce an enterprise architecture information system design

Metode Enterprise Architecture Planning Untuk Merencanakan Sistem Informasi Manajemen Anggaran Perguruan Tinggi Swasta

The success of higher education can be seen from the performance of education, research and community service, and university governance. The use of information technology is very influential in organizational performance. Budget management and expenditure are some of the important business processes in a university involving several work units so that integration system is needed. The purpose of this study is to plan an Enterprise Architecture budget and information system of expenditure management that is integrated with systems in other work units. An Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP) is a methodology for making enterprise architecture planningby focusing on data management architecture, application creation architecture, and technology architecture. Those will be used as well as the implementation of architecture to support the achievement of organizational goals, namely integration system. The results of this study are Blue Print of Architecture Enterprise budget and expenditure management information systems in Higher Education. This Blue Print of Enterprise Architecture information system includes several business processes, namely business processes, budget management, payroll, asset management, HR management, and attendance. This compiled architecture is still found gap. For example, there are still entities that must be added (add), retained (replaced), replaced (removed) and removed (remove), with details of 17 Added entities, 1 Retained entity, 14 Replaced entities, and 0 Removed entity. In conclusion, the total gap is 32 entities.

Toward a document‐centered ontological theory for information architecture in corporations

AbstractThe beginning of the 21st century attested to the first movements toward information architecture (IA), originating from the field of library and information science (LIS). IA is acknowledged as an important meta‐discipline concerned with the design, implementation, and maintenance of digital information spaces. Despite the relevance of IA, there is little research about the subject within LIS, and still less if one considers initiatives for creating a theory for IA. In this article, we provide a theory for IA and describe the resources needed to create it through ontological models. We also choose the “document” as the key entity for such theory, contemplating kinds of documents that not only serve to register information, but also create claims and obligations in society. To achieve our goals, we provide a background for subtheories from LIS and from Applied Ontology. As a result, we present some basic theory for IA in the form of a formal framework to represent corporations in which IA activities take place, acknowledging that our approach is de facto a subset of IA we call the enterprise information architecture (EAI) approach. By doing this, we highlight the effects that documents cause within corporations in the scope of EIA.

Designing Enterprise Architecture for Sports Information System Platform Using the Open Group Architecture Framework Architecture Development Method

The purpose of this study to along with the development of information technology PSSI ASPROV JABAR, wants to develop information systems but does not have a corporate blueprint in designing information systems. The method used enterprise architecture design is based on TOGAF ADM literature study. The design of an enterprise architecture information system for sports platforms will be designed using TOGAF ADM, in developing the information system phase, the Architecture Phase Architecture, the Business Architecture Phase, the Information System Architecture, and the Architectural Technology Phase. This research produces a blueprint that will be used to create information systems that can support ongoing business processes. TOGAF ADM is designed as a general framework and has good alignment between business and technology. The conclusion of this research is that the company’s architectural design using TOGAF ADM can be used in PSSI ASPROV JABAR according to the documents and processes that are running and can produce a blueprint for creating information systems so that they can support ongoing business processes.

Information security management needs more holistic approach: A literature review

Information technology has dramatically increased online business opportunities; however these opportunities have also created serious risks in relation to information security. Previously, information security issues were studied in a technological context, but growing security needs have extended researchers' attention to explore the management role in information security management. Various studies have explored different management roles and activities, but none has given a comprehensive picture of these roles and activities to manage information security effectively. So it is necessary to accumulate knowledge about various managerial roles and activities from literature to enable managers to adopt these for a more holistic approach to information security management. In this paper, using a systematic literature review approach, we synthesised literature related to management's roles in information security to explore specific managerial activities to enhance information security management. We found that numerous activities of management, particularly development and execution of information security policy, awareness, compliance training, development of effective enterprise information architecture, IT infrastructure management, business and IT alignment and human resources management, had a significant impact on the quality of management of information security. Thus, this research makes a novel contribution by arguing that a more holistic approach to information security is needed and we suggest the ways in which managers can play an effective role in information security. This research also opens up many new avenues for further research in this area.

Mobile Technology: Binding Social and Cloud into a New Enterprise Applications Platform

Nowadays, IT industry is revolving around build-out and adoption of a new characterized by mobility, cloud-based application and service delivery, and value-generating overlays of social business and pervasive analytics. The paper explores convergence of mobile, cloud, and social, as well as effects for enterprise and emergence of new enterprise application platforms. In beginning we set stage, while showing expansion of mobile, cloud, and social in business information system, as they were found in literature. We then look over IT trends, especially consumerization of IT, as reasons and basis for information systems embracing of mobile. Afterwards, we present a mobility roadmap for enterprise and illustrate reconfiguration of enterprise application platform.Keywords: Mobile Technology, Cloud Computing, Social Networking, Enterprise Applications1 IntroductionThe changes set in motion by Internet and web technologies are irreversible and have strong impact, but it will take more time to diffuse through organizations. Migrating from old to new ways of doing business has always been a continuous, open-ended process [1],We have witnessed so many IT trends in last 20 years and we believe that none was as pervasive as mobile technology. The ability to access any content, on any device over any network in any location, is becoming a reality. While whole IT budget is either same or declining, one bright point is mobility. According to some studies, in 2011 and 2012, mobility budgets were 40% larger than in 2010 [2], Organizations consider enlargement of number of employees with smartphones (from less than 50% in 2010 to over 70% by 2013), which triggers raise of number of devices requiring support (Apple, Android-based and RIM devices, as well as tablets) and associated costs. The new environment demands to deliver services to employees in a mobile cloud computing model.Social networking evolved massively in last few years, at an incredible pace and became preferred way of interaction, sharing and collaboration between people. Particularly, last few years repositioned interaction and sharing on mobile devices. According to some studies, 60% of Facebook updates are from mobile devices and around 80% of staff members are using their phones and other devices for both work and personal purposes and these figures must prompt managers' interest and reconfigure enterprise information architecture [3], Passing over social networks, other social technologies like blogs, wikis, emeetings, instant messaging or document sharing are noteworthy instruments for employees to collaborate and come upon innovation.From business point of view, wireless access ubiquity, proliferation of mobile devices and urgency to keep business moving have brought mobile technology in enterprise information system. From users and consumers point of view, their real-time, continuous collaboration and their new behavior combined with first two arguments have brought social in enterprise information system. If we add a fourth ingredient - cloud - we obtain entire representation of enterprise mobility. Today state of art in business technology is repositioning in the third platform, which includes mobile devices and applications; cloud services; explosive data growth and a new generation of solutions. Let us mention that first two platforms were: (1) mainframes and terminals and (2) client-server model supported by PC.This blend of social capabilities, mobile technology and cloud computing materialize into a new platform that forms basis of a new information system [4], The interdependency is illustrated in Figure 1, where we also considered position and role of enterprise applications. …

Core System Transformation and Big Data Re-Architecting

Core System Transformation and Big Data Re-Architecting

Information Architectures for Information Sharing Management — A Literature Review

The struggle for commercial supremacy through information is being fought on two points: Information management and enabling technologies. Over the last years, there has been an increasing focus on information architecture (IA) to help organisations distinguish and manage information as corporate resource. As the information complexity increases, more IA studies show that IA could provide the structural and process design to facilitate enterprise interoperation under the information sharing environment. However, limited IA has been addressed for the usage of managing the information sharing. Motivated by this observation, this paper presents a literature review that IA can be used to understand and manage information sharing, utilising the enterprise information resource statically and dynamically through IA implementation. First, enterprise IA description and definition are presented. Second, we analyse IA from a static and dynamic view to reveal the research streams on an architectural approach for information sharing management. Third, contributions and limitations are discussed. It is finally concluded by providing future IA research directions and implications for empirical applications. Our research illustrates that IA deployment imposes a positive influence on information sharing management.

Study of the Characteristic and Information Architecture Model of Enterprise Web Application

In this paper, we systematically described the characteristics of traditional Web applications, as well as the advantages of Ajax technology, analyzed the differences between enterprise web application and public web application, and the differences between enterprise web applications and desktop applications; studied the characteristics of enterprise Web applications and Information Architecture Model; on the basis of the analysis of enterprise-class framework, proposed functional requirement of components and framework which support enterprise-class Web development, discusses computing balance between the client and server.

The architecture of information in organisations

Over the last two decades competition amongst organisations including financial institutions has increased tremendously. The value of information is critical to competition in different organisations. In addition, the management of cost of delivery and cohesiveness of information flow and use in the organisations continue a challenge to information technology (IT). In an attempt to address these challenges, many organisations sought various solutions, including enterprise information architecture (EIA). The EIA is intended to address the needs of the organisation for competitive advantage.This research article focused on the role of principles in the development and implementation of EIA. The article aimed to investigate how EIA could be best leveraged, exploited, or otherwise used to provide business value. The research brings about a fresh perspective and new methodological principles required in architecting the enterprise information.

Using a meta-modelling knowledge management layer – a new approach to designing the enterprise information architecture

As managers continue to use varied set of information technologies in this fast moving era of globalisation, electronic commerce, and mobile commerce, organisations should adopt an information technology architecture that manages knowledge and meta-knowledge, and enables decision-makers to use information systems on a business intelligence platform. Thus, there is a need for an integrated, adaptive, flexible enterprise information architecture that enforces knowledge sharing and meta-knowledge management in an organisation. This study proposes an enterprise information architecture model for business and technology framework that includes a meta-knowledge-modelling level to enable knowledge sharing besides data and information sharing through organisational information systems. Further, the model is illustrated through two applications of meta-knowledge management systems through the use of object-oriented paradigm.

Enterprise information architecture

Enterprise information architecture

An ontological analysis of the economic primitives of the extended-REA enterprise information architecture

The resource–event–agent (REA) model for enterprise economic phenomena was first published in The Accounting Review in 1982. Since that time, its concepts and use have been extended far beyond its original accountability infrastructure to a framework for enterprise information architectures. The granularity of the model has been extended both up (to enterprise value chains) and down (to workflow or task specification) in the aggregation plane, and additional conceptual type-images and commitment-images have been proposed as well. The REA model actually fits the notion of domain ontology well, a notion that is becoming increasingly important in the era of E-commerce and virtual companies. However, its present and future components have never been analyzed formally from an ontological perspective. This paper intends to do just that, relying primarily on the conceptual terminology of John Sowa. The economic primitives of the original REA model (economic resources, economic events, economic agents, duality relationships, stock–flow relationships, control relationships, and responsibility relationships) plus some newer components (commitments, types, custody, reciprocal, etc.) will be analyzed individually and collectively as a specific domain ontology. Such a review can be used to guide further conceptual development of REA extensions.

Discussion of an ontological analysis of the economic primitives of the extended-REA enterprise information architecture

Discussion of an ontological analysis of the economic primitives of the extended-REA enterprise information architecture

Nedcor technology and operations: enterprise architecture (the knowledgebase)

The purpose of this article is to emphasize the knowledge intensity of enterprise architecture in support of an enterprises' ability to be innovative, competitive and proactive towards change and, secondly, how this knowledge base could be managed to leverage value to the rest of the organization. Enterprise architecture reinforces and operationalizes three competitive weapons: business strategy, digital innovation and infrastructure development. It is the holistic expression of the enterprise's key business, information, application and technology strategies and their impact on business functions and processes. It typically consists of current and future state models of four key components, namely enterprise business architecture, enterprise information architecture, enterprise application architecture and enterprise-wide technical architecture. the enterprise architecture process facilitates the planned evolution of IT infrastructure, processes and systems. The enterprise architecture governance model provides the necessary principles and standards to guide a common vision in order to align business and technology requirements. The unique and very specific products and related processes for enterprise architecture are dependent on continuous and recent updates regarding business and technology trends in order to apply knowledge and insight gained to future strategic architecture initiatives. Successful implementation of enterprise architecture programmes is dependent on effective knowledge transfer to key stakeholders. Enterprise architecture value, for example the relationship between business effectiveness and financial efficiency, could be related to the following statement: the information coursing through a well architected information system is profoundly valuable, provided it is the right information delivered to the right decision makers, at the right time. Therefore, leveraging architecture value is dependent on how effectively architecture related-information and knowledge are communicated or distributed to the rest of the enterprise.

Control and coordination in global ERP configuration

The dominant market for enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors has traditionally been the largest of multinational corporations. Until recently, most vendors (SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, etc.) have promoted a “one size fits all” solution built on “industry best practices.” This approach forced organizations to either conform to the “best practices” and configurations suggested by vendors and implementation consultants or embark on extremely costly reconfiguration of their ERP package. The study reviews the concepts of control, coordination, and their trade‐offs plus Bartlett and Ghoshal’s topology of firm strategy. Human resource issues are introduced as examples of organization elements that may or may not conform to the enterprise design structure within coordination and control. Finally, the concepts of control and coordination and the Bartlett and Ghoshal topology are combined to create a firm strategic orientation which is then matched to an ideal ERP configuration or enterprise information architecture.

Integration and beyond: linking information from disparate sources and into workflow.

The vision of integrating information-from a variety of sources, into the way people work, to improve decisions and process-is one of the cornerstones of biomedical informatics. Thoughts on how this vision might be realized have evolved as improvements in information and communication technologies, together with discoveries in biomedical informatics, and have changed the art of the possible. This review identified three distinct generations of "integration" projects. First-generation projects create a database and use it for multiple purposes. Second-generation projects integrate by bringing information from various sources together through enterprise information architecture. Third-generation projects inter-relate disparate but accessible information sources to provide the appearance of integration. The review suggests that the ideas developed in the earlier generations have not been supplanted by ideas from subsequent generations. Instead, the ideas represent a continuum of progress along the three dimensions of workflow, structure, and extraction.

Professional Workstations: Serenity at the Edge of the Envelope

Professional workstations, the next step in information processing technology, allow systems developers to innovatively interact with a new type of user: the professional. Because they must create a different user interface, systems developers should first consider the various risks involved in designing such a complex and important system. This column discusses the impact professional workstations can have on the enterprise information architecture, a framework for systems development Hugh W. Ryan is a principal of Andersen Consulting, Chicago