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'''Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology''' (GERAM) is a generalised [[Enterprise Architecture framework]] for [[enterprise integration]] and [[business process]] [[engineering]]. It identifies the set of components recommended for use in [[enterprise engineering]].<ref name="Nell97"> [[J.G. Nell]], NIST (1997). "[http://www.mel.nist.gov/workshop/iceimt97/ice-gera.htm An Overview of GERAM]" ICEIMT'97 International Conference on Enterprise Integration Modelling Technology 1997. Updated 30 January 1997</ref>
 
[[File:GERAM Framework.jpg|thumb|360px|Fig 1. GERAM Framework: This set of components is identified in the first image and briefly described in the following. Starting from defined concepts to be used in enterprise integration (GERA), GERAM distinguishes between the methodologies for enterprise integration (GEEM) and the languages used to describe structure, contents and behaviour of the enterprise (GEML).]]
 
This framework is developed in the 1990s by an [[International Federation of Automatic Control|IFAC]]/[[International Federation of Information Processing|IFIP]] Task Force on [[Enterprise Architecture|Architectures]] for [[Enterprise Integration]]. Starting from the evaluation of existing enterprise integration architectures the Task Force has developed an overall definition of a [[generalised architecture]]. This proposed framework was labelled as GERAM for "Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology".<ref name="BN94"> [[P. Bernus]], and L. Nemes (1994). "A Framework to Define a Generic Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology". In: ''Proceedings of the International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision (ICARCV'94)'', Singapore, November 10–12, 1994.</ref>
 
== Overview ==
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== History ==
Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology (GERAM) is developed in the 1990s by an [[International Federation of Automatic Control|IFAC]]/[[International Federation of Information Processing|IFIP]] Task Force on [[Enterprise Architecture|Architectures]] for [[Enterprise Integration]] with [[Peter Bernus]], [[James G. Nell]] and others. The IFAC/IFIP Task Force on Architectures for Enterprise Integration was establishment in 1990 and had studied enterprise-reference architectures ever since.<ref name="Nell96"> JG[[J.G Nell]] (2006). "[http://www.mel.nist.gov/sc5wg1/np_geram.htm Requirements and Methodology for Enterprise-Reference Architectures: A New Work Item Proposal]". updated 20 May 1996.</ref>
 
In its work the Task Force has established the requirements to be satisfied by candidate enterprise-reference architectures and their associated methodologies to fulfill the needs of [[industry]] for such aids to [[enterprise integration]]. The result has been called GERAM, for "Generalized Enterprise-Reference Architecture and Methodology", by the Task Force. The Task Force has shown that such an architecture is feasible and that several architectures presently available in the literature can already or potentially can fulfil such requirements.<ref name="Nell96"/>