Aligning application architecture to the business context

  • Authors:

  • Roel J. Wieringa;H. M. Blanken;M. M. Fokkinga;P. W. P. J. Grefen

  • Affiliations:

  • Center for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands;Center for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands;Center for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands;Center for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • CAiSE'03 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Alignment of application architecture to business architecture is a central problem in the design, acquisition and implementation of information systems in current large-scale information-processing organizations. Current research in architecture alignment is either too strategic or too software implementation-oriented to be of use to the practicing information systems architect. This paper presents a framework to analyze the alignment problem and operationalizes this as an approach to application architecture design given a business context. We summarize guidelines for application architecture design and illustrate our approach and guidelines with an example.