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Method Support of Information Requirements Analysis for Analytical Information Systems

State of the Art, Practice Requirements, and Research Agenda

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Due to specific characteristics of analytical information systems, their development varies significantly from transaction-oriented systems. Specific method support is particularly needed for requirements engineering and its information-related component, information requirements analysis. The paper at hand first evaluates the state of the art and identifies necessary method support extensions. On this basis, method support requirements for information requirements engineering are identified. The survey is structured along the five core activities of traditional requirements engineering. It reveals a need for further research especially on information requirements elicitation, validation, and management. It further contributes to a discussion of aspects that should be considered by any method support. Due to comparatively long life cycles of analytical information systems, the introduction of a process perspective is discussed in order to ensure the continuous elicitation, documentation, and management of information requirements.

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    Florian Stroh,  Robert Winter &  Felix Wortmann

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Accepted after three revisions by Prof. Dr. Buxmann.

This article is also available in German in print and via http://www.wirtschaftsinformatik.de: Stroh F, Winter R, Wortmann F (2010) Methodenunterstützung der Informationsbedarfsanalyse analytischer Informationssysteme. Stand der Forschung, Anforderungen aus der Praxis und Erweiterungspotenziale. WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK. doi: 10.1007/s11576-010-0254-y.

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Stroh, F., Winter, R. & Wortmann, F. Method Support of Information Requirements Analysis for Analytical Information Systems. Bus Inf Syst Eng 3, 33–43 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-010-0138-0

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