ABSTRACT
Enterprise modeling greatly enhances strategic business engineering by providing a structured, diagrammatic framework for depicting the myriad interconnected and changing components addressed in large-scale change. Enterprise modeling is referred to as one of many qualitative models that can be used to represent quantitative measures of particular facets of an organization in a higher level of abstraction that represents the organization in a more holistic manner. As depicted in a contextual strategic business engineering model, enterprise modeling plays a significant role in supporting various processes of a typical engineering effort. State University is a major public university in Southeast with an enrollment of approximately 25,000 students. Creating an enterprise model for Financial Information Systems (FIS) and the university’s central computer center would allow the university to formulate a long-term plan for decentralizing the activities that FIS currently performs and making constituent groups self-sufficient. This includes examining activities and replacing them with AS/400 applications and client/server processing, integrated with personal computer networks.
