The SDBC Approach

Abstract

We make a clear distinction between issues that concern the enterprise-engineering aspects of Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) and issues that concern the software-engineering aspects of such systems—see Chap. 1 . At the same time, we need to bring together enterprise modeling (driven by social theories—see Chap. 4 ) and software specification (driven by computing paradigms—see Chap. 5 ) for the sake of bridging the enterprise-software gap (as discussed in Chap. 1 ). We have put conceptual foundations for this in Chap. 2 (by considering systemics) and we have explicitly addressed the environmental and user perspectives with regard to EIS (see Chap. 3 ). What is nevertheless missing so far is the operationalization perspective—we need an approach and methodological guidelines on what to do and how to do it in order to actually realize an enterprise-modeling-driven software generation; this is a challenge because most current approaches and methods are either rooted in social theories or based on computing paradigms—this claim has been justified in the previous chapters of the current book. For this reason, we consider previous works of the Author [1] who has been studying and addressing the mentioned challenge for more than 15 years already, reflecting innovative ideas in his SDBC APPROACH—“SDBC” stands for “Software Derived from Business Components.” Hence, the reasons for considering and developing further this approach are the following: