Sabine Buckl and Christian M. Schweda are research assistants at the chair for Software Engineering for Business Information Systems (sebis) at the Technische Universität München (TU München).

Their research interests center around methods, models and tools for the management of enterprise architectures and application landscapes as part thereof.In this area, they are especially interested in quantitative methods and models, which can be used to operationalize and measure properties of the respective management body.

Presentation

Simulating and Visualizing Enterprise-wide Operational Risks

Enterprise-wide risk management as well as enterprise architecture management is based on a holistic view on the enterprise addressing both ­ business and IT aspects in an integrated manner. Taking operational risks into account, it is necessary but not sufficient to consider the static aspects that arise from dependencies between the elements of the EA, like goals, organizational units, business processes, business applications, and IT infrastructure elements. Operational risks, e.g. concerning availability, can only be analyzed, modeled, and controlled, if static EA models are enriched by appropriate abstractions to capture the dynamic complexity of the EA. In order to communicate the findings of the simulation visualizations of the EA can be used.

Key Takeaways
- How to explicate operational risks in EA models
- What metrics can be used to quantify operational risks
- How to use simulation to address risk management in an enterprise

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