An Ontological Approach for Recovering Legacy Business Content

— Legacy Information Systems (LIS) pose a challenge for many organizations. On one hand, LIS are viewed as aging systems needing replacement; on the other hand, years of accumulated business knowledge have made these systems mission-critical. Current approaches however are often criticized for being overtly dependent on technology and ignoring the business knowledge which resides within LIS. In this light, this paper proposes a means of capturing the business knowledge in a technology agnostic manner and transforming it in a way that reaps the benefits of clear semantic expression – this transformation is achieved via the careful use of ontology. The approach called Content Sophistication (CS) aims to provide a model of the business that more closely adheres to the semantics and relationships of objects existing in the real world. The approach is illustrated via an example taken from a case study concerning the renovation of a large financial system and the outcome of the approach ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Aseem Daga, Sergio de Cesare, Mark Lycett, Christopher Partridge
• Keywords: Accumulated Business Knowledge, Biometrics, Business Knowledge, HICSS 2005, Legacy Information Systems, System Sciences