Multiple Perspectives of Digital Enterprise Architecture

Abstract

Enterprises are transforming their strategy, culture, processes, and their information systems to enlarge their Digitalization efforts or to approach for digital leadership. The Digital Transformation profoundly disrupts existing enterprises and economies. In current times, a lot of new business opportunities appeared using the potential of the Internet and related digital technologies: The Internet of Things, Services Computing, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data with Analytics, Mobile Systems, Collaboration Networks, and Cyber-Physical Systems. Digitization fosters the development of IT environments with many rather small and distributed structures, like the Internet of Things, Microservices, or other micro-granular elements. Architecting micro-granular structures have a substantial impact on architecting digital services and products. The change from a closed-world modeling perspective to more flexible Open World of living software and system architectures defines the context for flexible and evolutionary software approaches, which are essential to enable the Digital Transformation. In this paper, we are revealing multiple perspectives of digital enterprise architecture and decisions to effectively support value and service-oriented software systems for intelligent digital services and products.