Automated enterprise architecture assessment
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsWolfgang Mayle, Sebastian Rothbucher
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Abstract
A computer based system for assessing an automated enterprise architecture includes a database for storing artifacts, each artifact representing a portion of the enterprise architecture, the artifacts including a pattern artifact defining requirements for links between a first artifact and one or more additional artifacts, a user interaction module coupled to the database, and an analysis module configured to determine all patterns linked to a component and to determine the level of compliance of the component with the pattern.
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A computer based system for assessing an automated enterprise architecture system, the system comprising:
- a database for storing artifacts, each artifact representing a portion of the enterprise architecture, the artifacts including a pattern artifact defining requirements for links between a first artifact and one or more additional artifacts;
- a user interaction module coupled to the database;
- an analysis module configured to determine all patterns linked to a component and to determine the level of compliance of the component with the pattern.
A method of evaluating enterprise architecture in a computer database, the method comprising:
- creating a plurality of artifacts including a first artifact, a second artifact and pattern artifact, each artifact having a type and an identifier;
- creating a connection between the first artifact and the second artifact, the connection including a forward link stored in the first artifact pointing from the first artifact to the second artifact and a reverse link stored in the second artifact pointing from the second artifact to the first artifact;
- creating a link between the first artifact and the pattern artifact;
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- creating a connection support document, the connection support document including a pointer to the first artifact and a pointer to the second artifact, the connection support document further including information contained in the pattern artifact defining requirements related to the link between the first artifact and the second artifact.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.