Quality-oriented Architectural Approaches for Enterprise Systems

Abstract:

Information Systems (IS) have become a critical business component. These systems are frequently developed in conjunction with different technologies, thereby producing “islands of applications” that need to be integrated in order to improve the flow of information between the processes involved. This is a competitive advantage for a company because it enables information to be made available on line, while reducing the response time of these processes. It is also desirable–and in many cases critical–for these integrated applications to meet certain quality attributes: Performance, Scalability, Maintainability, etc. This article presents the Architectural Approaches suitable for integrating different IS within an organization and setting up a Enterprise System (ES)[O’Brien, 2003], based on the quality attributes that are desirable for these systems, and following the research action model that included the background and case study. Two architectural approaches, which are the result of the combination of the styles (Objects, Sequential Batch, Layers, and Pipes and Filters) was obtained as well as the most important quality attributes for this domain.

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2003

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