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Beitrag A.2 53
7 Beitrag A.2: Use Cases for Business Metadata – A
Viewpoint-Based Approach to Structuring and Prioritizing
Business Needs
Titel
Autoren
Use Cases for Business Metadata – A Viewpoint-Based Approach to
Structuring and Prioritizing Business Needs
Daniel Stock, Felix Wortmann, Jörg Mayer
Universität St. Gallen, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik
Müller-Friedberg-Straße 8, 9000 St. Gallen, Schweiz
{daniel.stock | felix.wortmann | joerg.mayer}@unisg.ch
Publikationsorgan In: BIS 2010 Workshops (2010), S. 226-237
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Business metadata plays a crucial role in increasing the data quality of information
systems. Despite its importance, business metadata is primarily discussed from a technical
perspective, while its business value is scarcely addressed. Therefore, this article
aims at contributing to the further development of existing design approaches by explicitly
accounting for the use cases of business metadata. In the course of this article,
a classification of use cases will be developed, which can be utilized when identifying
the respective informational requirements a business metadata system needs to satisfy.
A banking case is presented that demonstrates how this conceptual model has successfully
been applied in practice.
Keywords: business metadata, requirements engineering, user acceptance
7.1 Introduction
7.1.1 Motivation and Objectives
In recent years, the challenge of “making better use of information” has gained importance
and now ranks among the top five priorities of IT executives [Luftman, Kempaiah,
Rigoni 2009: 151-152]. This trend is linked to the prevailing significance of
Business Intelligence (BI), where data quality is a crucial factor for the perceived net
benefits to the end user [Luftman, Kempaiah, Rigoni 2009; Sabherwal, Jeyaraj, Chowa
2006: 1857-1859; Wixom, Watson 2001: 34]. In this context, the scope of data quality