Welcome at the OFFIS Group Software Engineering for Business Information Systems.
We consider business information systems an instrument to support companies and organisations in achieving their strategical and corporate objectives. The basic conditions are rapidly changing requirements, historically grown heterogeneous IT-application landscapes and short innovation cycles. For information systems to endure in this stressful field, adjustable and more agile concepts for both individual applications and complete IT-application landscapes are required. At the same time, the focus on the supported domain must not be lost.
Our main topics
The OFFIS group "Software Engineering for Business Information Systems" (OFFIS-ST) addresses research and development projects with the following three main topics, that contribute considerably in designing a sustainable information technology in companies and organisations:
Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) is concerned with the documentation and planning of IT application landscapes and their relationships to superordinate business processes and strategies as well as to the supporting technical infrastructure. MORE
The gap between IT and its supported application domains can be narrowed by approaches such as service-oriented architectures (SOA) and domain-specific languages (DSL). MORE
Model-driven software development (MDSD) comprises concepts, methodologies, and tools for effective, efficient, and fast development processes. Hence, if agile evolution of business information systems is a key success factor, MDSD is one evident way to achieve this. MORE
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Events
SOAME 2010
ST and TC SEA are co-organisers of the International Workshop on SOA Migration and Evolution - SOAME 2010, which will take place March 15th 2010 collocated CSMR 2010 in Madrid. www.soame2010.eu