Application Domain

• Application Domain is:
  • The material the developers have been given to deal with;
  • The requirement is what the developers have to do it.
• Understanding the Application Domain gives the developers a basis for choosing the right Problem Frames and Methods for solution.
  • The reason for achieving an understanding of the Application Domain is to allow the developers to begin to recognize the shape of the problem.
  • A problem is characterized less by the nature of the machine the developers will build than by the structure and properties of the Application Domain,
  • and of customers Requirement in the Application Domain.
• A software development problem as a problem of constructing a machine.
  • The purpose of the machine is to be installed in the world and to interact with it.
  • The part of the world in which the machine's effects will be felt, evaluated, and - if it is successful - approved by the customer, is the Application Domain.

Assessing and Managing the Benefits of Enterprise Systems: the Business Manager’s Perspective

• Enterprise Systems (ES) are large-scale organizational systems built around packaged enterprise system software.
• Enterprise System Software (ESS) :
  • It is a set of packaged application software modules with an integrated architecture, which can be used by organizations as their primary engine for integrating data,
  • processes and information technology, in real time, across internal and external value chains;
  • It contains deep knowledge of business practices accumulated from vendor implementations in a wide range of client organizations;