Category: Type 1 Model

Comments: IEM is a project of IPK - Berlin

The IEM (Integrated Enterprise Modeling) method is based on three classes: product, resource and order. Enterprise data and business processes are assigned to objects of these classes during the modeling. IEM distinguishes between two views: function model and information model. Tasks on objects and business processes belong to functions and so-called linkage-elements like sequence, parallel branching, join and so on. The information model describes the data of an enterprise model based on the three classes mentioned above. Additional to the functional and information model other views can be integrated, e.g. control mechanisms, organization units and costs. How this is done is not explained in Mertins (1993). It is mentioned that a prototype of a modeling tool is under construction. Execution of business processes is not mentioned at all.