Topics for Discussion

During the workshop we will discuss the following topics:

1. Digital enterprises, Industry 4.0 and Platforms

- New trends in digitization for enterprise architecture and enterprise engineering e.g. Industry 4.0, platforms

- Impacts of digitized products on enterprise architecture

- Enterprise architecture - contributions and challenges for digital transformation, Industry 4.0 and platforms

2. SoEA and influence of Artificial Intelligence, social information systems and big data in Enterprise Engineering

- Trends in SoEA to use the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence, social information systems and big data (volume, variety, velocity, veracity)

- Impacts of Artificial Intelligence, social information systems and big data on the SoEA

3. SoEA with cloud- and edge-computing

- Fitting SoEA with cloud and edge computing

- Concepts and methods for mapping enterprise services to cloud- and edge-based resources

- Concepts and methods for mapping non-functional requirements to cloud- and edge-based resources

4. Alignment of the enterprise goals and strategy with the SoEA

- Interdependencies between services and business goals

- Concepts and methods to align services with the business strategy

- New potentials and trends created by services to reengineer business processes

- Quality issues and non-functional requirements for SoEA

- Coherence of services with compliance requirements (among others, GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002, ISO 15408)

5. Design of SoEA

- Specifications of business, software, platform and infrastructure services

- Matching business services with business processes

- Lifecycle of business, software, platform and infrastructure services

- Data-driven monitoring of the fulfilment of non-functional requirements (big data, IoT, …)

- Benchmarks and key performance indicators for services

- Approaches the continual improvement of services

6. Governance of SoEA

- Impacts of SoEA on the compliance and governance requirements

- Meta-services for business, software, platform and infrastructure services

- Building service (value) nets -consisting of business, software, platform and infrastructure services

- Meta-services for cloud-environments

- Impacts of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) on the governance of EA