Analysis of Federated Business Models: An Application to the Business Model Canvas, ArchiMate, and e3value

Enterprise models contribute to the understanding, communication and analysis of how business processes are performed, the goals they achieve, the information they use, as well as the applications that support the business, and the underlying technological infrastructure. The analysis of these different domains requires combining different enterprise models, often described with different domain specific modelling languages. This paper explores the application of computational semantic techniques to specify, integrate and analyse multiple enterprise models. The models are individually specified and federated using ontological schemas, and analysed using computational inference and graph analysis. The paper describes (1) how to specify enterprise models as ontological schemas, (2) how to integrate the ontological schemas using transformation maps, and (3) how to analyse the integrated models. This solution is demonstrated through the specification, integration and analysis of a business model landscape comprising three enterprise modelling languages: the Business Model Canvas, e3value, and Archi Mate.