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The digital transformation occurring in enterprises results in an increasingly dynamic and complex IT landscape that in turn impacts enterprise architecture (EA) and its artefacts. New approaches for dealing with more complex and dynamic models and conveying EA structural and relational insights are needed. As EA tools attempt to address these challenges, virtual reality (VR) can potentially enhance EA tool capabilities and user insight but further investigation is needed in how this can be achieved. This paper contributes a VR solution concept for visualizing, navigating, and interacting with EA tool dynamically-generated diagrams and models using the EA tool Atlas. An implementation shows its feasibility and a case study using EA scenarios is used to demonstrate its potential.
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Oberhauser, R., Sousa, P., Michel, F. (2020). VR-EAT: Visualization of Enterprise Architecture Tool Diagrams in Virtual Reality. In: Shishkov, B. (eds) Business Modeling and Software Design. BMSD 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 391. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52306-0_14
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