The paper deals with Next Generation Enterprise Information Systems in the context of EnterpriseEngineering. The continuous alignment of business and IT in a rapidly changing environment is a grandchallenge for today’s enterprises. The ability to react timeously to continuous and unexpected change iscalled agility and is an essential quality of the modern enterprise. Being agile has consequences for theengineering of enterprises and enterprise information systems. In this paper a new paradigm for nextgeneration enterprise information systems is proposed, which shifts the development approach ofmodel-driven engineering to continuous alignment of business and IT for the agile enterprise. It is basedon a metamodelling approach, which supports both human-interpretable graphical enterprisearchitecture and machine-interpretable enterprise ontologies. Furthermore, next generation enterpriseinformation systems are described, which embed modelling tools and algorithms for model analysis.
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