Towards a view for evaluating investment in the enterprise software systems architecture

Author

Gammelgård, Magnus ; Lindström, Åsa

Author_Institution

Dep. of Ind. Inf. & Control Syst., KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

fYear

2003

fDate

2-4 Nov. 2003

Firstpage

101

Lastpage

105

Abstract

A new view for assessing the consequences on the enterprise wide software architecture when evaluating an IT-investment is presented. The view is developed as a part of a new model for software management at the enterprise level, which is presented in overview. It is argued that when evaluating an IT-investment, considerations have to be taken regarding how the investment influences the current enterprise software systems architecture. The focus here is to identify key architectural concerns the people responsible for managing the enterprise software architecture, related to evaluating an IT-investment.

Keywords

information technology; investment; software architecture; software management; IT investment evaluation; enterprise software systems architecture; information technology; software management; Books; Computer architecture; Control systems; History; Investments; Performance evaluation; Service oriented architecture; Software performance; Software systems; Thumb;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering Management Conference, 2003. IEMC '03. Managing Technologically Driven Organizations: The Human Side of Innovation and Change

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8150-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMC.2003.1252240

Filename

1252240