Goal-Oriented Enterprise Architecture Analysis

Enterprise Modelling is a discipline which tries to capture and reason about the distinct dimensions (e.g. structure, strategies and processes) involved in organizations by means of visual models. In this work, we are interested in using Enterprise Architectures to gain an understanding of the enterprise to promote a goal-oriented enterprise analysis. This paper describes the current state of art in literature of enterprise architecture and correlated areas and outline research questions that represent the open challenges that must be faced to promote this goal. In particular, the description of literature and the research questions are made in terms of the languages that model the enterprise architecture as well as the techniques that support architectural analysis.