Shared Conceptualisation of Business Systems, Information Systems and Supporting Software

This paper discusses a shared conceptualisation of business systems, information systems and supporting software. The main idea is to think of all above listed systems as different kinds of an abstract operational system. The paper proposes also a shared conceptualisation of business engineering, information systems engineering and supporting software engineering processes on the basis of systems engineering. The proposed approach enables to define all above listed systems in unified manner and to develop unified enterprise engineering environment that increases the reliability of design of enterprise systems because of the possibility to check consistency between business, information and software systems.

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