Decision Support for Application Landscape Diversity Management

Due to sustained business digitization, today’s companies face an increase in application landscape diversity. To support application landscape design decisions made by enterprise architects, this thesis identifies different aspects of diversity and presents two novel indicators for their quantification. Four case studies demonstrate their applicability for application landscape management.

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