Extended Enterprise Engineering - A Model-based Framework

This paper describes the ideas behind an enterprise model-based framework for extended enterprise engineering. The framework includes an extended enterprise engineering methodology, a reference model and a supporting environment for extended enterprise engineering. It covers the complete lifecycle of the extended enterprise. The approach is based on Active Knowledge Modeling and utilizes the experience of other enterprise modeling and enterprise engineering initiatives, such as GERAM. The uniqueness of the framework is achieved through the graphical representation and the user interface. It is modeled in an environment called METIS, which is a software product dedicated for enterprise modeling. The paper presents the objective of the framework and describes the main skeleton of the extended enterprise engineering framework. The ideas described in this paper came out of the enterprise modeling work done in the Globeman21 project.