Enterprise-Wide Solutions Architecting Using UML

- In concert with customer and marketing staffs, systems engineers often formulate and codify an initial overall software system solution to fulfill customer needs. Without a focused, well-supported cooperative effort, however, the formulation may reflect a lack of discernment of the customer's existing resources, capabilities, processes, and desiderata, as well as the more promising solution options. Further, any deficiencies of the emerging solution may be masked by inadequacies in its description or delays in its review by all parties. This paper describes an approach to exploring a customer's enterprise-wide problem space, and in turn the relevant parts of the solution space, in a systematic and revealing manner. Here, the solution space spans developmental constructs, customer assets, and third-party resources. The resultant work product, a solution architecture, enables all stakeholders to comprehend, assess, and refine a proposed software system in terms of its project...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ECBS
• Authors: Diane Feldman, Josephine Micallef, Dennis Mulcare
• Keywords: ECBS 2003, Hardware, Software System, Solution, Solution Architecture