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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>

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]]. StartingThe fromdevelopment starting with the evaluation of existing enterpriseframeworks integrationfor architectures[[Enterprise theapplication Taskintegration|enterprise Forceintegration]] haswhich was developed into an overall definition of a [[socalled "generalised architecture]].", This proposed frameworkwhich was labelled asnamed 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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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"/>

The devopment of enterprise-reference architecture has evolved from the developemt of Design Methodology for Advanced Manufacturing Systems in the 1980s,<ref>Doumeingts, G., Vallespir, B., Darracar, D., M., "Design Methodology for Advanced Manufacturing Systems", Computers in Industry, Vol. 9, pp. 271-296, December 1987.</ref> such as [[CIMOSA]], the Open System Architecture for CIM.<ref>[[AMICE Consortium]] (1989). ''Open System Architecture for CIM, Research Report of ESPRIT Project 688'', Vol. 1, Springer-Verlag.</ref><ref>[[AMICE Consortium]] (1991), ''Open System Architecture, CIMOSA, AD 1.0, Architecture Description'', ESPRIT Consortium AMICE, Brussels, Belgium.</ref> The GERAM framework was first published by [[Peter BernusandBernus]] and and Laszlo Nemes in 1994.<ref name="BN94"/>

== GERAM Topics ==