Software requirements acquisition through enterprise modelling.

Enterprise Modelling technology prescribes systematic use and computer aided documentation of knowledge about enterprises, their objectives, activities, concepts, and actors. The basis of this technology is the Enterprise Model, assumed to be developed by users and requirements engineers during the requirements acquisition process. The Enterprise Model consists of several submodels, that have user-oriented meta-knowledge structures for communication with human sources of information. The Enterprise Model maintains relationships between information system requirements and other relevant, sometimes intentional, knowledge, acquired about the application domain. The main objective of this technology is to obtain a better alignment between the business activities and the supporting information system. The technology presented here is also applicable in the area of business process reengineering.