Evaluation of Application Architecture Change Cases: Building Blocks Reusability Assessment Method

Business Information Systems Workshops: BIS 2017 International Workshops: Revised Papers. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Vol.303 2017
Rūta Pirta, Jānis Grabis

The reuse of IT solutions plays an important role, as it enables organizations to develop services more quickly and at reduced cost, and promotes greater interoperability, standardization and cooperation. Organizations increasingly include the reuse principle in their Enterprise architecture (EA) development vision. However, they often lack methods for comprehensive evaluation of changes in Application Architecture (AA) including assessment of reuse of AA components. In this paper, we outline a method for AA change evaluation. The objective of the proposed method is to provide support for establishing a controlled environment for AA change implementation planning to meet defined EA principles. In this paper, we focus on the reuse principle, however the approach can be also adapted for change assessment with regards to other principles such as centralization and standardization.

Keywords
Application architecture, Architecture principles, Enterprise architecture, IS changes, Reuse
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-69023-0_14
Hyperlink
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-69023-0_14

Pirta, R., Grabis, J. Evaluation of Application Architecture Change Cases: Building Blocks Reusability Assessment Method. In: Business Information Systems Workshops: BIS 2017 International Workshops: Revised Papers. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Vol.303, Poland, Poznan, 28-30 June, 2017. Cham: Springer Nature, 2017, pp.150-162. ISBN 978-3-319-69022-3. e-ISBN 978-3-319-69023-0. ISSN 1865-1348. e-ISSN 1865-1356. Available from: doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69023-0_14

Publication language
English (en)