Evolving information systems: meeting the ever-changing environment

Evolving Information Systems: Meeting the Ever-changing Environment

To meet the demands of organisations and their ever changing environment, information systems are required which are able to evolve to the same extent as organisations do. Such a system has to support changes of all timeand application-dependent aspects. In this paper, requirements and a conceptual framework for evolving information systems are presented. This framework includes an architecture...

The Changing Information Environment

Managing enterprise information: meeting performance and conformance objectives in a changing information environment

This paper presents the findings of an in-depth survey to examine the current status of enterprise information management (EIM) in organizations. The survey explores five key areas: drivers and capabilities of EIM; current status of EIM strategies; EIM content and technologies; EIM and compliance; and the changing role of the information professional. The survey reveals that the drivers for EIM...

Supporting Autonomy for Information Systems in a Changing Environment

In the development of information systems, object-oriented speciication (e.g. Troll 4]) is useful for conceptually modeling of the universe of discourse. Viewing an information system as a collection of communicating objects is close to the intuitive perception of such systems on a conceptual level. Nowadays complex information systems (e.g. knowledge bases) have to be exible to accommodate for...

Evolving Information Systems: Beyond Temporal Information Systems

Nowadays, in order for an organisation to be competitive, it must be able to adapt quickly to its dynamic environment. In this paper, we discuss the need for information systems which are capable to evolve to the same extent as organisations do. Requirements of evolving organisations on their information systems are identified, followed by alternative approaches to adequate information systems ...