Title: Measuring architecture and design efficiency for enterprise applications

Authors: Viral Gupta; Parmod Kumar Kapur; Deepak Kumar

Addresses: Amity Institute of Information Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida 201303, India ' Amity Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida 201303, India ' Amity Institute of Information Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida 201303, India

Abstract: The efficiency of architectural and design attributes in enterprise applications plays a very crucial role in the successful implementation. These attributes are the building blocks of the software program that influence the overall quality and customer satisfaction. Despite of various controls and metrics available in quality management discipline, the implementation of enterprise applications tend to fail or do not accomplish the desired level of efficiency in terms of architectural and design attributes. This research paper presents a two-way framework that is based on analytic hierarchy process for measuring and controlling these attributes across various stages in the implementation life cycle. The proposed framework calculates the utility measure for these attributes, which is an indication of performance and efficiency. An experiment was conducted on an enterprise application project and the utility measure was derived using the proposed framework at various stages. The utility measure obtained from the framework demonstrated the improvement in the performance and efficiency of architectural and design attributes by 45%.

Keywords: architecture; design; utility measure; analytic hierarchy process; AHP; enterprise applications; quality; two-way assessment.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2018.090448

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2018 Vol.28 No.4, pp.494 - 529

Received: 16 Nov 2015
Accepted: 30 Apr 2016
Published online: 19 Mar 2018 *

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