Aligning Business and System Functionality Through Model Matching

Authors

  • Colette ROLLAND Université Panthéon Sorbonne de Paris, Centre de Recherche en Informatique

Keywords:

Alignment, Business modeling, System modeling, Goal driven modeling

Abstract

The dependence between organizations and IT leads to better understand the necessary alignment between business models (BM) and associated system functionality models (SFM). The baseline of this paper is that there is a "conceptual mismatch" between languages expressing BM and SFM that should be reduced. For this purpose, we propose to raise the level of SFM from a functional description to a goal-oriented one. We propose to represent goals together with the strategies to achieve them in a directed graph called map. The paper presents the concept of a map and illustrates it with the SAP-MM map. The BM/SFM relationship is then discussed and the alignment problem is highlighted in the case of an ERP system installation.

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How to Cite

ROLLAND, C. (2005). Aligning Business and System Functionality Through Model Matching. Systèmes d’Information Et Management (French Journal of Management Information Systems), 10(3), 5–24. Retrieved from https://revuesim.org/index.php/sim/article/view/176

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 3 (2005)

Section

Empirical research

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