Modern enterprises face a strong economical pressure toincrease competitiveness, to operate on a global market, andto engage in alliances of several kinds. In order to meet therequirements and challenges of participating in suchalliances, companies must be able to cooperate effectivelyand...

Companies are more and more focusing on their core competencies,outsourcing business tasks to their business partners. In order to support collaboration between business partners, adequate information systems need to be built automating inter-organizational business processes. The bases for such...

Global enterprise resource planning (ERP) programmes are usually initiated top‐down, butthe ubiquitous access to company process information leads to the empowerment of trainedemployees at all levels of the company. The success of current global ERP programmes dependson a wide range of...

Support of processes by appropriate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a key requisite to persist in an environment characterised by high specialisation and cooperative service production – also in the public sector. This paper describes a method for pattern-based semantic...

Modern enterprises face the challenge to survive in an ever changing envi-ronment. One commonly accepted means to address this challenge and further enhance survivability is enterprise architecture (EA) management, which provides a holistic model-based approach to business/IT alignment. Thereby,...