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Evolution is characteristic to all enterprise information systems (IS) because of continuing changes in its environment. It is also a necessary condition for guaranteeing IS fitness to the organizational needs and requirements. Nonetheless, each IS evolution presents several risks towards their sustainability and requires an accountable steering. In this chapter we consider two major challenges related to the IS evolution: the way to design and implement legacy IS evolution and the why to govern it. We look for responses to those challenges in existing literature and we review our previous and on-going work. In particular, we promote the use of service-oriented paradigm to deal with the complexity, interoperability and evo-lution of legacy IS, and we propose the concepts of information service and in-formation services system (ISS) as well as different ways to design an ISS. Con-cerning the second challenge, we propose a framework for IS evolution steering that aims to guide the actors responsible for this complex task by providing the in-formation necessary to realise IS evolution activities and to simulate their impact.
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Léonard, M., Ralyté, J. (2017). Handling the Evolution of Information Systems: An Overview of Challenges and Prospective Solutions. In: Cabot, J., Gómez, C., Pastor, O., Sancho, M., Teniente, E. (eds) Conceptual Modeling Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67271-7_15
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