Peter Dadam is co-editor of a new book on enterprise software. This book provides a compilation of the key outcomes of the four year work of the PRIMIUM research network in which DBIS participated (with its AristaFlow project). The book is organized along three sections. The first one deals with the better and faster specification of enterprise software. Only if the clients are better integrated in the requirements engineering phase, more specific and better software is likely to result. Thus, open proposal techniques, the alignment of software specifications with business objectives as well as privacy definition elements will be included. The second section focuses on the software development process itself. Contemporary architecture principles, integrated ontologies, automated workflows, traceability in model-driven architectures and current testing practices are the major elements of this part of the book. The third and final section highlights boundary crossing elements of the software development process. Collaborative requirements engineering, end-to-end trace-ability and rationale management, and partnership networks in the software industry are the presented topics.

Armin Heinzl, Peter Dadam, Stefan Kirn, Peter Lockemann (Eds.): PRIMIUM - Process Innovation for Enterprise Software Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), P-151, 2009, Koellen-Verlag, Bonn. ISBN 978-3 88579-245-1