A Method for Business-IT Alignment of Legacy Systems

Jonathan Pepin, Pascal André, Christian Attiogbe, Erwan Breton

2015

Abstract

The separate evolution of the business side of the information system and its IT side leads to inconsistent enterprise architectures. The consequences are unpredictable and costly evolutions of software systems, delayed answers to strategic decisions requirements. Numerous contributions emerged to answer the Business-IT alignment problem but they do not completely fit to legacy systems because either they are top-down or they focus on the strategic alignment or they require seamless models like the BPM-SOA alignment. We propose a method to tackle the challenge of legacy architectures alignment from a practical point of view. This method includes: (i) meta-models (business process, functional and application), (ii) a top-down and bottom-up process to feed the models and (iii) an implemented tool chain based on model transformations and weaving. Our objective is to establish and maintain a consistency link between the legacy software architecture models and the enterprise business models. This link makes them aligned and the mismatches can be revealed (as-is) and avoided in the future state of the system (to-be). We experiment the method on a real case study.

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Pepin J., André P., Attiogbe C. and Breton E. (2015). A Method for Business-IT Alignment of Legacy Systems . In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-098-7, pages 229-237. DOI: 10.5220/0005351502290237


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@conference{iceis15,
author={Jonathan Pepin and Pascal André and Christian Attiogbe and Erwan Breton},
title={A Method for Business-IT Alignment of Legacy Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2015},
pages={229-237},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005351502290237},
isbn={978-989-758-098-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - A Method for Business-IT Alignment of Legacy Systems
SN - 978-989-758-098-7
AU - Pepin J.
AU - André P.
AU - Attiogbe C.
AU - Breton E.
PY - 2015
SP - 229
EP - 237
DO - 10.5220/0005351502290237