Weighting of Integration Qualities in IS Architectures: A Production Case

Daniel Fürstenau; Christian  Glaschke

doi:10.18151/7217321

Weighting of Integration Qualities in IS Architectures: A Production Case

Daniel Fürstenau, Christian Glaschke

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Abstract

We suggest a method that conceptualizes a company’s IS architecture—its set of information systems (IS) and integrations—as a weighted and directed graph. Going beyond an undifferentiated treatment of integration qualities, we present a scoring model to assign integration weights to integration links. Thereupon, we introduce weighted centrality measures from network analysis to identify important systems in the architecture with respect to their architectural embeddedness. Drawing on the case of a production company, we demonstrate our approach by concentrating on selected systems and integrations, such as the close and complex integration of an ERP and a product lifecycle management (PLM) system. Focusing on the technical challenges of enterprise transformations, our work contributes to enterprise architects’ toolbox as it enables a more fine-grained understanding of critical systems with high change complexity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ECIS 2015 Proceedings
Editors	Jörg Becker, Jan vom Brocke, Marco De Marco
Number of pages	15
Place of Publication	Atlanta, GA
Publisher	Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Publication date	2015
Article number	53
ISBN (Electronic)	9783000502842
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18151/7217321
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	The 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2015 - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany Duration: 26 May 2015 → 29 May 2015 Conference number: 23 http://www.ecis2015.eu/

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Conference	The 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2015
Number	23
Location	Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Münster
Period	26/05/2015 → 29/05/2015
Internet address	http://www.ecis2015.eu/

Series	Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems
ISSN	0000-0034

Keywords

IS achitectures
Integration
Weighed and directed graphs
Centrality measures
Change complexity

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Fürstenau, D & Glaschke, C 2015, Weighting of Integration Qualities in IS Architectures: A Production Case. in J Becker, J vom Brocke & M De Marco (eds), ECIS 2015 Proceedings., 53, Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), Atlanta, GA, Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems, The 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2015, Münster, Germany, 26/05/2015. https://doi.org/10.18151/7217321

Weighting of Integration Qualities in IS Architectures: A Production Case. / Fürstenau, Daniel; Glaschke, Christian .
ECIS 2015 Proceedings. ed. / Jörg Becker; Jan vom Brocke; Marco De Marco. Atlanta, GA: Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), 2015. 53 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems).

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