Software Solutions Construction

Abstract

Information has become an essential resource for the survival and sustainable development of modern organizations, which face the constraints of their unstable and continuously changing economic and technological environments. In order to manage effectively this valuable resource, organizations need information systems that play a critical role in information management and in supporting complex organizational processes. In particular, to support innovation processes and short time-to-market constraints organizations’ information systems must be agile and flexible. The information systems’ urbanization may be considered as one of the main solutions proposed by researchers since the late 1990s to help organizations build agile information systems. Nevertheless, despite the advantages of this concept, it remains too descriptive and presents many weaknesses. For example, there is no useful approach dedicated to urbanized information systems construction. In this chapter, the authors propose a development approach of software solutions that are compliant with the information system urbanization rules characterized by their main dimensions.