Paper Info
Title
An Empirical Study of Enterprise Conceptual Modeling
Abstract
Business analysts, business architects, and solution consultants use a variety of practices and methods in their quest to understand business. The resulting work products could end up being transitioned into the formal world of software requirement definitions or as recommendations for all kinds of business activities. We describe an empirical study about the nature of these methods, diagrams, and home-grown conceptual models as reflected in real practice at IBM. We identify the models as artifacts of "enterprise conceptual modeling". We study important features of these models, suggest practical classifications, and discuss their usage. Our survey shows that the "enterprise conceptual modeling" arena presents a variety of descriptive models, each used by a relatively small group of colleagues. Together they form a "long tail" that extends from "drawings" on one end to "standards" on the other.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-04840-1_7
ER
Keywords
Field
DocType
home-grown conceptual model,empirical study,business analyst,enterprise conceptual modeling,important feature,formal world,descriptive model,business activity,long tail,business architect,conceptual model,conceptual modeling,software requirements,modeling techniques,business analysis
Data mining,IBM,Conceptual model,Computer science,Software analysis pattern,Process modeling,Management science,Empirical research,Database,Business architecture,Service-oriented modeling,Business analysis
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5829
0302-9743
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
12
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ateret Anaby-Tavor11208.19
David Amid2313.64
Amit Fisher3454.11
Harold Ossher41599193.61
Rachel Bellamy516222.64
Matthew Callery6202.23
Michael Desmond7212.59
Sophia Krasikov8343.02
Tova Roth9506.28
Ian Simmonds10348.45
Jacqueline Vries1181.32