Enterprise interoperability development in multi relation collaborations: Success factors from the Danish electricity market

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Figure 1. Enterprise architecture alignment dimensions (Based on Magoulas et al. 2012).

Figure 2. Enterprise interoperability dimensions (Based on Daclin, Chen, and Vallespir 2008).

Table 1. Analytical framework construction.

Theory	Success factor found in theory	Category selected for structuring related success factors
Enterprise Architecture Alignment Dimensions	Functional alignment - the connection between the information system and processes expressed as an equation of required and available information capabilities.	Business process
	Structural alignment - the connection between the information systems and the decisional rights and responsibilities expressed as an equation of established structure and accepted structure.	General project and change management
	Infological alignment - the connection between information systems and the stakeholder’s knowledge expressed as an equation of required knowledge and provided information and sometimes extra information.	Information and data
	Socio-cultural alignment - the connection between the areas of information systems and the areas of goals, objectives and values expressed as an equation of stakeholders’ expectations and delivered contributions.	Business process
	Contextual alignment - the connection between the enterprise as a whole, its boundaries and interaction with the external environment expressed as an equation of expected enterprise behaviour and the observed enterprise behaviour.	General project and change management
Enterprise Interoperability Dimensions	Interoperability concern: Business level - working in a harmonized way at the levels of organization.	Business process
	Interoperability concern: Process level - making different processes working together.	Business process
	Interoperability concern: Data level - making various data models and various query languages working together.	Information and data
	Interoperability concern: Service level - identifying, composing, and making function together with different applications.	Information and data
	Interoperability barrier: Organizational - responsibilities and authority considerations so that interoperability can occur in good situations.	General project and change management
	Interoperability barrier: Conceptual - syntactic and semantic consideration of information to be exchanged.	Information and data
	Interoperability barrier: Technological - consideration of standards utilized to present, store, exchange, process, and communicate data by the use of computers.	Business process

Figure 3. The new data hub model of the Danish electricity market.

Magoulas, T., A. Hadzic, T. Saarikko, and K. Pessi. 2012. “Alignment in Enterprise Architecture: Investigation the Aspects of Alignment in Architectural Approaches.” The Electronic Journal Information Systems Evaluation 15(Issue (1)): 88–105.

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