Landscape maps for enterprise architectures

  • Authors:
  • Leendert van der Torre;Marc M. Lankhorst;Hugo ter Doest;Jan T. P. Campschroer;Farhad Arbab

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg;Telematica Instituut, Enschede, The Netherlands;Telematica Instituut, Enschede, The Netherlands;Ordina, The Netherlands;CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • CAiSE'06 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Landscape maps are a technique for visualizing enterprise architectures. They present architectural elements in the form of an easy to understand 2D 'map'. A landscape map view on architectures provides non-technical stakeholders, such as managers, with a high-level overview, without burdening them with technicalities of architectural drawings. In this paper we discuss the use of and techniques for landscape maps. A formal model for landscape maps is introduced as the basis of visualization and interaction techniques. Moreover, we show how a landscape map can be generated from its underlying model. Finally we show several interaction techniques, for example to build a landscape map from scratch, independently of an underlying model, or to change a landscape map together with its underlying model.