Enterprise Engineering Tools

Enterprise Engineering Tools include Enterprise Modeling Tools, Enterprise Integration Tools, and Enterprise Design Tools. These differ from Engineering Standards (see menu item on left) in that Enterprise Engineering Tools assist their user with the process of planning, integration and design, while Engineering Standards are requirements or recommendations relating to the final enterprise itself.

Enterprise Modeling Tools and meta-models

• IDEF Tools
• EXPRESS Enterprise Modelling Language definition from Wikipedia
• Petri Net Tools
• STEP Tools
• UML (Unified Modeling Language)

Workflow Modeling

• ARIS Workflow Modelling Toolset.
• Workflow Management Coalition

Software Development and Quality Control Methodologies

• Agile Model a project management approach that involves breaking the project into phases and emphasizes continuous collaboration and improvement. Teams follow a cycle of planning, executing, and evaluating.
• Incremental Model a software development methodology that breaks down a project into smaller, more manageable parts, or increments, that are developed and tested in sequence. The goal is to deliver a working product in stages, with each stage building on the previous one.
• Iterative Model a software development methodology that breaks down a project into smaller, more manageable parts called iterations. This approach is based on the idea that incremental progress and continuous feedback are important throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Prototype Model a software development methodology that involves creating a prototype, testing it, and refining it based on feedback. It's an iterative process that's often used when project requirements aren't fully known in advance.
• RAD Model Rapid Application Development (RAD) model is a software development model that emphasizes speed and rapid prototyping, with less emphasis on planning. It's an agile methodology that's well-suited for small to medium-sized projects and for software driven by user interface requirements.
• Spiral Model a software development model that helps manage risk by repeating project steps in a series of iterations, or spirals. It's often used for large, complex, or expensive projects.
• V-Model A systematic approach to software development and testing, emphasizing the close relationship between development phases and their corresponding testing phases
• Waterfall Model a linear application development model that uses rigid phases: When one phase ends, the next begins. Steps occur in sequence, and, if unmodified, the model does not allow developers to go back to previous steps (hence “waterfall”: Once water falls down, it cannot go back up).

The following organizations are focused on high integrity systems

• High Integrity Software Software Standards Activity at NIST
• NIST Software Quality Group

Definitions of Technical Terms

• PERA Dictionary of Enterprise Integration defines Technical Terms and Acronyms commonly encountered in Industrial Systems Integration.
• IEC Electropedia contains all the terms and definitions in the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary or IEV which is published also as a set of publications in the IEC 60050 series

Reference Articles on Enterprise Engineering

The following are some general reference Articles and Papers on Enterprise Integration.