The concept of the Sensing, Smart and Sustainable (S^3) Enterprise System is introduced to highlight medium and long-term trends for next generation enterprise information systems (EIS) in the domain of enterprise modelling, integration and networking.

The S^3 Enterprise System is not static but evolves over time, and EIS need to support complexity, learning of smart agents and the overall evolution in the S^3-Enterprise.

From an architectures and languages point of view the concept of “services” needs to be integrated, supporting model-driven engineering and model-based operation.

For better decision making, existing architectures have to be extended towards an enterprise operating system. To support interoperability between different models a common core ontology is needed.

For education and management of modelling processes new methods are needed. These methods need to cover collaboration, management of enterprise architectures to improve the use of architectures and models.