Enterprise Modeling

Introduction.- Business Challenges - and How Enterprise Modeling Helps.- Terms and Concepts in Enterprise Modeling.- Elicitation Approaches in Enterprise Modeling.- Enterprise Modeling Tools.- E-Commerce Case Study.- Overview of the 4EM Method.- Sub-models of 4EM.- Project Organization and Roles.- Supplying the Modeling Project with Competent Modeling Experts.- Adoption of Enterprise Modeling.- Quality of Enterprise Models.- Reuse of Enterprise Models.- Selected Enterprise Modeling Approaches.- Frameworks and Reference Architectures.- Outlook.

Kurt SandkuhlKurt Sandkuhl is Full Professor of Business Information Systems at the University of Rostock, Germany and Affiliated Professor of Information Engineering at the School of Engineering, Jönköping University, Sweden. His current research interests include the fields of information logistics, enterprise modeling, ontology engineering and model-based software engineering. He has published four books and more than 200 peer-reviewed papers.Janis StirnaJanis Stirna is Associate Professor of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research interests are enterprise modeling, model-driven development, tools, reuse, patterns and knowledge management. Stirna is an author or co-author of some 80 research reports and publications and he is one of the initiators of the Poem - (Practice of Enterprise Modeling) conference series. He also has been involved in various key roles in twelve European and six national research projects.Anne PerssonAnne Persson is Full Professor of Informatics at the University of Skövde, Sweden. Her main research interests are enterprise modeling, requirements engineering, knowledge management processes and systems, e-services and health informatics. Persson is an author or co-author of some 80 scientific papers and research reports and she is one of the initiators of the PoEM - (Practice of Enterprise Modeling) conference series. She also has been involved in various key roles in a number of European and national research projects.Matthias WißotzkiMatthias Wißotzki is a PhD Candidate at the University of Rostock. His research activities focus on topics related to Enterprise Architecture and Capability Management. Prior to this, he worked as a consultant in different industrial projects and gained experiences as a founder of multiple companies. He received several awards for his work, including the Young Entrepreneurs' Prize of the University of Rostock (2010). Since 2014 he has supported The Open Group in different

"The authors propose own method 4EM and combine it with the real-life experience for common situations that occur in enterprises and have a potential for cost saving and efficiency improvement. ... book is suitable for the EM courses at the bachelor level or for the beginners in EM. ... Also the authors mentioned the easy translation from the 4EM models to other modeling approaches. These sort of exercises may attract the teachers giving the course of EM using other notations." (Ella Roubtsova, Amazon.com, June, 2016)