Communication and Enterprise Architecture in Extended Enterprise integration

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Communication and Enterprise Architecture in
Extended Enterprise integration

• Frank GoethalsJ. Vandenbulcke, W. Lemahieu, M.
  Snoeck, M. De Backer, R. HaesenSAP-Research
  Chair on Extended Enterprise Infrastructures
• K.U.Leuven Belgiumfrank.goethals_at_econ.kuleuven.
  ac.be

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Define the Extended Enterprise
Market B2Bi
EEi
Long term relationship Coordination needed
Unilateral development

• The Extended Enterprise is a collection of legal
  entities (N 2) that pursue repeated, enduring
  exchange relations with one another

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The solution to these challenges Enterprise
Architecture
An Architecture is IEEE-1471 the
fundamental organization of a system embodied in
its components, their relationships to each other
and to the environment and the principles guiding
its design and evolution. Doing Enterprise
Architecture (EA) means actively organizing
the components of an enterprise and the
relationships between those components and the
environment, keeping a number of principles in
mind. Doing Enterprise Architecture entails the
creation of architectural descriptions.
Architectural descriptions a collection of
products to document an architecture.
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Challenges in the EE (1) Coordination problems
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Challenges in the EE (2) Other

• Understand the organization of the other party.
• Service Level Agreements.
• Avoid problems later on (development/maintenance).
  
• Dynamic integration?

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Conclusions

• Companies within an Extended Enterprise need to
  coordinate their Web services development
  efforts.
• They can use Enterprise Architecture to achieve
  the necessary coordination.
• At the K.U.Leuven (SAP-leerstoel Extended
  Enterprise Infrastructures)
• we are developing guidelines to realize the
  IT-enabled Extended Enterprise.
• Goethals F., Vandenbulcke J., Lemahieu W.,
  2004a. Developing the Extended Enterprise with
  the FADEE, ACM SAC 2004 conference proceedings .
• Goethals F., Vandenbulcke J., Lemahieu W.,
  Snoeck, M., De Backer, M., and Haesen, R., 2004b.
  Communication and Enterprise Architecture in
  Extended Enterprise Integration, ICEIS 2004
  conference proceedings (to appear).

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