Architecting the Industrial Internet

Mapping Requirements to a Functional Viewpoint

Industrial Internet projects are being deployed to address the ever-changing business needs. Many businesses are encountering new threats from traditional and emerging competition. They often find that competitors posing the biggest threats to their business are gathering data from smart devices and sensors, analyzing it, and building innovative solutions that enable new business models. The competitors building these solutions gain new business and technical skills and adopt agile development methodologies, enabling deployment of more flexible solutions in faster increments.

In the previous chapter, we used business and usage viewpoints to gather requirements and the justification for new projects ...