Over the last 5 years a quiet revolution in business systems development has taken place towards the use of enterprise-wide, off-the-shelf software solutions. At the end of 1997, BusinessWeek estimated the value of this global enterprise applications package (EAP) market at $10billion and still...

The fundamentals of a good decision-making are, first, clear understanding of the decision itself and, second, the availability of properly focused information to support the decision. Decision-making techniques help with both these problems. However, the techniques should be thought of as aids...

The purpose of the architecture of software systems in business organizations is to support those organizations in achieving business goals. In software development organizations the design of an architecture is a collective effort that involves various organizational stakeholders and designers,...