Integrated Development Support Environment (IDSE)
Abstract
Businesses today are rapidly recognizing that information assets are a resource that belongs to, and can be more effectively used by, the enterprise as a whole to realize major advancements in competitiveness. Attempts to leverage and reuse these assets, however, have long been plagued by the inability of our information systems to adapt and evolve gracefully to a changing environment. The ability to leverage corporate information assets therefore necessitates an altogether new way of thinking about, and developing, enterprise information systems. If information is to be controlled and managed as a global enterprise resource, then enterprise information systems will require the consistent, long-term involvement of large numbers of individuals, many of whom are not computer specialists. An Integrated Development Support Environment (IDSE) provides a system which supports user-driven development and evolution of information systems through graceful change to both (1) the information needs to be supported, and (2) the degree and types of automation. This report describes the design concepts for an IDSE centering around a scalable architectural design strategy enabling enterprise-level evaluation towards the desired levels of integration, automation, and sophistication.... Continuous process, Integrated information, Architecture, Improvement, Systems, Computer-aided, Information engineering, Integration, Systems engineering, Information systems, Systems engineering.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADA261088
Entities
People
- Martha S. Wells
- Michael K. Painter
- Richard J. Mayer
Organizations
- Texas A&M University