The Composable Enterprise as a New Paradigm

Abstract

The term ″composable enterprise″ was coined by the consultancy firm Gartner and describes a company that is agile, flexible and innovative due to its information systems. The book introduces information system components such as packaged business capabilities and application composition platform, which justify the paradigm shift from monolithic architecture to composable enterprise. At the same time, the book outlines the need for a decentralised, process-oriented organisational structure.

The graphic lifecycle concept in Fig. 1.9 shows the composable enterprise innovation process with the stages of innovation idea, process definition, platform architecture, development, execution, process analysis up to process improvement. These eight stages form the guiding principle for Chapters 1 to 8 of the book. The graphical representation of the lifecycle in Fig. 1.9 and its description also summarise these eight chapters. The graphic representations of the individual phases used in Figure 1.9 are repeated in the summaries of each chapter for guidance.

The figure below demonstrates the first phase of the lifecycle as business analysis and, at the same time, the content of this first chapter.