Enterprise Tomography

Abstract

Cloud Computing is finding its way into the architecture of current IT landscapes. The present chapter depicts an algorithm-based methodology supporting the Root-Cause-Analysis in the context of malfunctioning Federated ERP (FERP) software in Enterprise Clouds. The challenge is to standardize the error-finding procedure and increase the efficiency. For a given error symptom it is shown that the error location is approximated iteratively with help of generic operators in a semiautomatic manner. This approach of Semantic Debugging outperforms classical methods of Technical Debugging in efficiency regarding prerequisite knowledge and time consumption. Semantic integration and maintainability correlate strongly. The Delta-Operator enables the reconstruction of semantic FERP integration in the course of the error reproduction session. In combination with the Join-Operator, the defect approximation can be performed along the dependencies of semantic artifacts.