As a consequence, it is scalable, tailorable and encourages participative IS-architecture improvement processes. Case studies contributing to the methodology have been carried out at a regional transport company, at a muncipal administration and at a regional college, all in western Norway, as well as at a national government office. An industrial research project using the methodology has been carried out at Norway Post, while consultancies contributing to the methodology have been carried out for The Bank of Norway, Telenor and ElTele. Contact Snorre Fossland at Intraweb AS for more information about the tool.
Contemporary enterprises have numerous computer-supported information systems in place.
These information systems each consist of one or more application programs and maybe also one or more databases. They are related to one another in several ways, for instance by exchanging data, by storing the same types of data, and by supporting the same types of operations. This phenomenon is coined the IS-architecture of the enterprise. Hence, IS-architecture improvement efforts must sometimes have a scope broader than the enterprise at hand. In other case, the effort may be restricted to a division or department within the enterprise.