Towards a Models Traceability and Synchronization Approach of an Enterprise Architecture

Abstract

In the context of Enterprise Architecture (EA) modeling, the lack of alignment between the computational models constitutes an organizational problem. The root cause of this problem is the low traceability capacity and the lack of synchronization between the computational models present in the EA. Among the negative impacts related to this problem are, for example, the obsolescence of the models and the difficulty of carrying out analyzes of impacts and decision making in scenarios of organizational changes. Thus, in order to provide the alignment, understanding and adaptation of the corporate environment, from the institutional strategic level to the operational level of Information Technology (TI), focusing on the information systems, an approach is proposed to enable the traceability and synchronization between the computational models. The proposed approach in this paper consists of a: (i) meta-model set comprising the strategic, tactical and operational levels of the EA; (ii) traceability model that supports configuration and change management, through the use of COBIT and ITIL best practices; (iii) transformation process of models that, through the application of the Model Driven Development (MDD), aims to provide the synchronization between the elements of the different models present in an EA.