Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case
ISSN
1530-1605
ISBN
978-1-4799-2504-9
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2014-01-04
Author(s)
Research Team
IWI1
Abstract
We test a method for visualizing and measuring enterprise application architectures. The method was designed and previously used to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software applications. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover new facts about the applications and their relationships in an enterprise architecture, i.e., if the method can reveal the hidden external structure between software applications. Our test uses data from a large international telecom company. In total, we analyzed 103 applications and 243 dependencies. Results show that the enterprise application structure can be classified as a core-periphery architecture with a propagation cost of 25%, core size of 34%, and architecture flow through of 64%. These findings suggest that the method could be effective in uncovering the hidden structure of an enterprise application architecture.
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Book title
2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2014)
Publisher
IEEE
Publisher place
Piscataway, NJ
Start page
3847
End page
3856
Pages
10
Event Title
47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Event Location
Waikoloa, HI, USA
Event Date
06.-09.01.2014
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
228919
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