Although managerial issues of data warehousingand business intelligence received considerable attentionin recent years, the strategy process has notoften been investigated. This is particularly true forthe recently proposed, more holistic concept of informationlogistics. This paper discusses the...

Die Wirtschaftsinformatik hat sich als eigenständige Subdisziplin „zwischen“ Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Informatik zumindest im deutschen Sprachraum etabliert. Dies wird dadurch deutlich, dass einerseits die Wirtschaftsinformatik-Kommission zu den größten Kommissionen des Verbands der...

Business and information systems engineering (BISE) has established itself as a distinct sub-discipline “between” business sciences and computer science at least in the German-speaking countries. This primarily becomes obvious by two facts. First, the BISE section is one of the largest...

Most agree that enterprise architecture (EA) arti-facts include not only representation models, but also design principles [35]. While EA modeling and EA models are covered broadly in the EA state-of-the-art, design activity issues and design principles in particular are still neglected. While...

A challenge in Information Systems Design Science Research (ISDSR) is the evaluation of constructedInformation Systems Design Theories. March and Smith (1995, p. 254) state that “significant difficulties… result from the fact that artifact performance is related to the environment in which...

Based on an IEEE definition and its adaptation by The OpenGroup enterprise architecture (EA) is often defined as the fundamentalorganization of a company or government agency and theprinciples governing its design and evolution [16, 25]. Whiledesign representation issues like meta-modeling or...

Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is expected to providebusiness value by guiding the continuous development andtransformation of an enterprise. Based on the approach we strivefor constructing useful artifacts that guide the successful andsituational design of EAM. In order to do so we...