Towards Business and IT Alignment in the Future Internet: Managing Complexity in E-Business

Managing complexity in the provision of business services through Internet technology is regarded as the key success factor to establish services in the future internet. Numerous actors from different domains, working in different business settings and using heterogeneous IT technologies have to be integrated according to the business strategy identified. The paper at hand identifies the "E-BPMS modeling and analysis framework" as an integration approach for the design and analysis of such complex environments. The E-BPMS framework is based on meta modeling concepts allowing the flexible extension and adaptation of the framework. The paper shows the applicability of E-BPMS by providing application scenarios from a complex e-business project in the insurance sector and the modelling framework within the EC project BREIN.