Authors:
Marc Quast
1
and
Mark J. Handel
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Grenoble, France
;
2
The Boeing Company, United States
Keyword(s):
Information Systems, Business Applications, Enterprise Architecture, Social Software Engineering.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Databases and Information Systems Integration
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Model Driven Architectures and Engineering
;
Organisational Issues on Systems Integration
;
Software Engineering
;
Tools, Techniques and Methodologies for System Development
Abstract:
In large corporations, line-of-business organizations frequently introduce unofficial “shadow” applications to work around the limitations of the established information system. This paper presents a software architecture designed to alleviate this phenomenon, and reuses examples from a recent industry experience report to demonstrate how shadow application proliferation could be avoided without sacrificing flexibility and reactivity. We present the initial results of our prototype, and discuss the possibility of a social information system designed to both reduce the present chaos and enable the cooperative design and evolution of business applications.