Method

The underlying method of ADOit is based on international standards and best practices such as DoDAF, TOGAF, COBIT and ITIL. The Business Objective Compliance Architecture Framework (BOCAF) of ADOit is a technologically independent framework for the structured and coordinated collection of IT master plans to organise the IT of your organisation. The framework builds on a strong method base, combining the use of heterogeneous standards and best practices in a consistent manner.

The BOC Business Objectives Compliance Architecture Framework

ADOit pursues a metamodel-oriented approach to be fully configurable with respect to the requirements of the customer. The predefined metamodel is organised in different layers, e.g. business architecture, information systems architecture, and technology architecture, in compliance with TOGAF. Due to the technology independent focus, other IT management frameworks and management domains, like Project Portfolio Management and Business Process Management, can be integrated seamlessly. The analysis and reporting framework of ADOit assists decision-making processes by allowing different user groups to customise and tailor their own reports and queries.

ADOben

Business Engineering Navigator (BEN) provides description languages as well as analysis and design functionalities for a systematic enterprise architecture management. Based on the Business Engineering approach, BEN comprises concepts, methods and models for this field of application. Business Engineering focuses on engineer-like procedures for change projects in order to handle their inherent complexity and divergent perspectives. Enterprise architecture describes business and IT structures as a whole; the description of these structures and their interrelationships is captured in an enterprise architecture model.

ADOben is the product of the strategic partnership between the Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen, and BOC Information Technologies Consulting AG, Vienna. The combination of the methodical competencies of University of St. Gallen and the platform competencies of BOC AG facilitated the realization of BEN on the BOC platform.

The meta model is the core of BEN. It allows for a consistent description of enterprise architecture on the basis of established modeling languages and techniques. Thereby interdependencies and interrelationships of the partial architectures are focused because they facilitate the navigation within the enterprise architecture model(s), the generation of different views and alignment analyses, the transparent tracking of architecture decisions and finally the evaluation and well-founded selection between alternative architecture development roadmaps.


Application Scenarios, Functionalities and Advantages:

  • Well-proven and customizable meta model as the core of enterprise architecture modeling and analysis
  • Complexity reduction using BEN’s architecture layers
  • Enterprise architecture documentation by means of different model types
  • Textual and graphical BEN analyses for the examination of dependencies within the enterprise architecture
  • Intuitive handling and use of modeling and analysis functionalities
  • Substantial functionalities for development and maintenance of enterprise model information


The ADOben tool is available in German and English. You may find further information about BEN and ADOben on the following pages (in German):

http://adoben.iwi.unisg.ch/de/loesung-ben/

http://adoben.iwi.unisg.ch/de/werkzeug-adoben/