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The first version of the XIS profile addressed the development of interactive systems by defining models oriented only towards how the system should perform tasks. However, issues such as user-interface layouts, or the capture of interaction patterns, were not addressed by the profile, but only by the source-code generation process. This originated systems that, although functional, were considered by end-users as "difficult to use". In this paper we present the second version of the XIS UML profile, which is now a crucial component of the ProjectIT research project. This profile follows the "separation of concerns" principle by proposing an integrated set of views that address the various issues detected with the previous version of XIS. In addition, this profile also promotes the usage of extreme modeling, by relying on the extensive use of model-to-model transformation templates that are defined to accelerate the model development tasks. © 2007 IEEE.

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Companies use multiple solutions of information technologies and information systems to support their activities. Among the systems adopted by companies we can find Enterprise Resource Planning systems, Customer Relationship Management systems, Business Intelligence systems and many others. Such systems assure a wide spectrum of activities, ranging from operational support to the strategic support of the company. With the purpose of identifying and characterizing which systems the large Portuguese companies have been implementing, in which systems they intend to invest in short-term and which is the current role of information technology in the organization, we developed a study with the participation of several chief information officers. The findings of this study reveal that in Portuguese large companies the adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning systems are consolidated, while the adoption of systems like Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Workflow and Groupware will increase in the near future.