Top-Down Enterprise Application Integration with Reference Models

<body> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td align="center"> This page requires frames. <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewArticle/263">Click here</a> for the non-frames version. <p>Non-frames version <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewArticle/263">available</a>.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <h1>Top-Down Enterprise Application Integration with Reference Models</h1> <h2><i>Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Wilhelm Hasselbring, Mike Papazoglou</i></h2> <h3>Australasian Journal of Information Systems</h3> <h4>Abstract</h4> <div>For Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems such as SAP R/3 or IBM SanFrancisco, the tailoring of reference models for customizing the ERP systems to specific organizational contexts is an established approach. In this paper, we present a methodology that uses such reference models as a starting point for a top-down integration of enterprise applications. The re-engineered models of legacy systems are individually linked via cross-mapping specifications to the forward-engineered reference model's specification. The actual linking of reference and legacy models is done with a methodology for connecting (new) business objects with (old) legacy systems.</div> </body>