Actorbased : The Next Generation Architecture

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Actor-based The Next Generation Architecture

• Hans Goedvolk
• Cap Gemini Institute

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The Challenge after Year 2000
The ICT enabled Web Enterprise needs a New
Architecture for the intertwined Business and ICT
System an Agile Adaptive Organisation of People,
Software and Hardware
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The Starting-pointfor Actor-based

• Human Organisation
• Human Beings are Self-controlling Participants
• Agile Changing Patterns of Collaboration between
  People
• Adaptive People change Behaviour by Learning and
  Knowledge Creation
• Current ICT Systems
• Rigid Patterns of Collaboration
• Rigid Behaviour of Software Components

The Human Organisation must be the Metaphor for
the Software Organisation
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Actors in the Business and ICT System
External Actors
Business System Collaboration of Human Actors
products and services
IS services
Information Systems Collaboration of IS Actors
TI services
Technology Infrastructure Collaboration of TI
Actors
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The Operation of an Actor
Co-ordination
Co-ordination Information Storage
message
message
Co-ordination
information product/ service
information product/ service
Immaterial Production
Material Production
material product/ service
material product/ service
Information Storage
Materials Storage
information
material
Production
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Actors Collaborate in Supply Chains
Company
Business-Unit
Actor
Actor
Supplier
Business-Unit
Actor
Actor
Customer
Business-Unit
Actor
Actor
conversation
transaction
delivery
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Collaboration betweenHuman Actor and IS Actors
Human Actor
person Y (contract advisor)
person Y
contract advisor
contract conclusion
contract
transaction
alter ego
role
object
product
customer information
object/template
information
IS Actors
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Conclusions

• Business Architecture Human Actors with Flexible
  Patterns of Collaboration.
• IS Architecture Collaboration of
  Self-controlling IS Actors
• Alignment between Business and IS during
  Operation
• IS Actors can adapt there pattern of
  collaboration
• IS Actors can adapt there behaviour
• IS Actors are adaptable by Human Actors
• IS Actors may be adaptive through learning
  behaviour