An Enterprise Architecture framework for application consolidation in the Swedish Armed Forces

Author

Franke, Ulrik ; Johnson, Pontus

Author_Institution

Ind. Inf. & Control Syst., R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden

fYear

2009

fDate

1-4 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

264

Lastpage

273

Abstract

In this paper, application consolidation using Enterprise Architecture methods is considered, with an ongoing project in the Swedish Armed Forces as the point of departure. The decision-making features of application consolidation are first analyzed and formalized from the perspective of decision theory. Applying these insights, a more practical framework is then proposed, based primarily on the ISO/IEC 9126 standard, the Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework (MODAF), and the formalism of Probabilistic Relational Models (PRM). This framework supports cost-benefit analysis of application consolidation decision-making, thus helping to make these decisions more structured and transparent.

Keywords

IEC standards; ISO standards; decision making; military computing; ISO/IEC 9126 standard; Swedish Armed Forces; decision theory; enterprise architecture framework; enterprise architecture methods; Availability; Cost benefit analysis; Decision making; Decision theory; Financial management; IEC standards; ISO standards; Information systems; Logistics; Management training; Application consolidation; Enterprise Architecture; ISO/IEC 9126; MODAF; Probabilistic Relational Models;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, 2009. EDOCW 2009. 13th

Conference_Location

Auckland

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5563-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDOCW.2009.5331979

Filename

5331979