Enterprise architecture dependent application evaluations

Chief information officers (CIO) are faced with the increasing complexity of application landscapes. The task of specifying future architectures depends on an exact assessment of the current state. When CIOs have to evaluate the whole landscape or certain applications of it, they are facing an enormous challenge, since there is no common methodology for that purpose. Within this paper we address this task and present an approach for enterprise architecture dependent application evaluations. We outline why it is important not only to assess single applications by classical software metrics in order to get an indication of their quality, but also to regard the overall context of an enterprise application. To round up this contribution we present a brief example from a project with one of our industrial partners.