Digital Enterprise

Recommended Prerequisites

Information Systems.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical classes: detailed description of the concepts, principles, methodologies, and best practices used in the digital transformation of organizations, digital enterprise architectures, and digital twins. Discussion of case studies and lectures with experts.
Practical laboratory classes: solving exercises and developing projects in a real context. Practice IT tools for developing digital enterprise architectures and digital twins. Foster critical thinking in the presence of problems of increased complexity in the digital transformation of organizations.
The assessment will be carried out by an exam, a digital transformation group project, and individual assignments on tools for company architecture and digital twins.

Learning Outcomes

The curricular unit addresses the digital enterprise concept and the digital transformation process, developing the following skills:
- Describe the main characteristics of the digital enterprise
- Understand the reasons and use cases for digitalization of companies
- Know the various digital technologies available to create digital enterprises and methods for their selection
- Develop an architecture for digital enterprise that represents the current state (AS-IS) and future state (TO-BE)
- Use applications to create enterprise architectures and digital representations of physical objects or systems (digital twin)
- Understand the components of a digital twin and how they can be developed to create digital enterprises
- Use tools for designing and executing digital twins
- Create a roadmap for digital transformation using a real project as a reference.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the digital enterprise
2. Digital transformation - technologies and diagnostic tools
3. Enterprise architecture - methods and structures; service-oriented architecture; representations, models, and semantics
4. Enterprise modeling and modeling languages - service and layer orientation; three modeling dimensions; business layer concepts, applications, technology, physics, strategy, and motivation; relationships.
5. Viewpoints and visualization - models, views, and visualization; visualization and interaction; creation, selection, and use of viewpoints to represent digital enterprises
6. Tools for developing digital enterprise architectures - tool requirements for enterprise architecture; applications; view design; change impact analysis
7. Digital twins - types, standards, and development approaches; practical cases
8. Digital transformation project in a real context.

Head Lecturer(s)

João Nuno Lopes Barata

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 10.0%
Project: 40.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

Proper, H. A., van Gils, B., & Haki, K. (Eds.). (2023). Digital Enterprises: Service-Focused, Digitally-Powered, Data-Fueled. Springer Nature.

Lankhorst, M. (2009). Enterprise architecture at work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis,  4th Edition, Springer-Verlag.

Nath, S. V., Van Schalkwyk, P., & Isaacs, D. (2021). Building Industrial Digital Twins: Design, develop, and deploy digital twin solutions for real-world industries using Azure Digital Twins. Packt Publishing Ltd.

The Open Group. (2022). ArchiMate® 3.2 Specification.

The Open Group (2022a). TOGAF® -The Open Group Architecture Framework.