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Although the development of an appropriate Business Architecture is essential in realising organisation’s strategy, reflection on the desired information system service functionality and information system architecture is needed as well. Moreover, from an enterprise information systems development perspective, we need to help software engineers in creating generic, flexible and (therefore) future-proof systems. Focusing in the first place on the demand side of a software project and ensuring the quality of enterprise models is one means to achieve this. At the same time, bridging the gap between demand and supply is also of prime importance. Therefore, the MERODE approach builds on two main principles which, next to being of benefit to the demand side, benefit to the supply side as well.
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Some authors define requirements engineering as consisting of requirements gathering and requirements analysis. In this book we define requirements engineering as a phase that follows the requirements gathering step and that not only consists of analysing the requirements but also of building a model where every piece of requirements fits in well. Because of this construction aspect, we prefer the term requirements engineering over the term requirements analysis.
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JMermaid stands for Java MERODE modelling aid.
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Snoeck, M. (2014). From Demand to Supply: Layers and Model Quality. In: Enterprise Information Systems Engineering. The Enterprise Engineering Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10145-3_2
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