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Modelling Function and Information

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Handbook on Enterprise Architecture

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One of the most important tasks in the requirements life-cycle phase is to determine the functions that the given enterprise entity must have and how these functions interact — i.e., through exchanging information and material. For this purpose, one has to determine what the user (business owner) would like to include in the specified entity. The result may be called the user requirements specification of functions and data. These requirements may be captured by analysing the business processes that the enterprise intends to implement. The task is usually performed by business analysts, who:

  • interview management and other technical personnel to capture the functions to be included in the new business processes,

  • investigate various documents (such as quality manuals, descriptions of existing procedures and processes) in order to get a complete picture of what is required.

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  1. Griffith University, Australia

    Peter Bernus

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  1. Enterprise Integration Group, School of Computing and Information Technology, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith Univeristy, Nathan (Brisbane), Queensland, 4111, Australia

    Peter Bernus

  2. CSIRO Manufacturing & Infrastructure Division, Cnr Raglan and Albert Streets, Preston Vic 3072 Bag No. 9, Preston Vic, 3072, Australia

    Laszlo Nemes

  3. Information and Technology Management, University of Saarland, Postfach 151150, 66041, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Günter Schmidt

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Bernus, P. (2003). Modelling Function and Information. In: Bernus, P., Nemes, L., Schmidt, G. (eds) Handbook on Enterprise Architecture. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24744-9_11

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