Swarz & DeRosa (2006) proposed a new discipline called Enterprise Systems Engineering (ESE) and
recommended a framework that incorporate interconnections and interrelationships between all of the systems in an
enterprise and introduced five new and important processes: Technology Planning, Capacity-Based Engineering
Analysis, Enterprise Architecture, Strategic Technical Planning and Enterprise Analysis and Assessment. Those
processes included the three existing pillars of enterprise systems (people, processes and technology) and a new
layer of complexity called ‘Environmental Stress’ was suggested as an extension to traditional approaches. The
suggested framework incorporated the five ESE processes together with the EIA-632 processes for engineering and
business processes derived from (Gharajedaghi, 2006).