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2.1.2 Enterprise Architecture and Aesthetics
Author(s) -
King Paul
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2005.tb00665.x
Subject(s) - enterprise architecture , enterprise architecture management , enterprise modelling , enterprise integration , enterprise architecture framework , systems modeling language , nist enterprise architecture model , computer science , enterprise life cycle , enterprise systems engineering , integrated enterprise modeling , functional software architecture , enterprise information system , architecture , solution architecture , service oriented modeling , software engineering , enterprise software , systems engineering , knowledge management , engineering , unified modeling language , software architecture , programming language , art , software , visual arts
Enterprise architecture is the discipline of describing and analysing the relationship between an enterprise's objectives and purpose, and the system of systems which the enterprise uses to help achieve those objectives. This paper makes the case for the importance of aesthetics in enterprise architecture. It proposes an enterprise architectural modelling language which addresses enterprise form, purpose and aesthetics. This language is a meta‐model extension of SysML which uses the power of SysML to address the engineering aesthetic of enterprise architecture. The paper is based on work carried out for the UK Ministry of Defence's Integration Authority to develop an “Integration Services Support Environment” (ISSE). ISSE uses the enterprise architecture modelling language to enable the consistent description, and hence analysis, of a large and heterogeneous system of systems. ISSE itself has been developed as a enterprise architecture modelling tool and as a repository of interconnected models of MoD's enterprise.