Policy Management of Enterprise Systems: A Requirements Study
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2006-03-03
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Abstract
Policy enabled applications are being increasingly employed
to support responsive Information Technology services.
In competitive business environments, such services
increase adaptability of both software and the processes
they implement through externalized business and security
logic. Over the last decade this has driven both industry and
academia to contribute to policy research and engineering
by developing specification languages, frameworks and
toolkits. Since this work has typically been applied to and
evaluated using new enterprise solutions, policy management
for existing applications has been less well studied. In
this paper we share our experiences on policy enabling an
existing web based solution, together with identifying new
policy enabling requirements from a specific class of enterprise
systems. We first detail policy enablement requirements
and constraints from the perspective of management
and users of the application. We then present completed and
ongoing work, our observations, and future directions.