An Ontology-Based Approach for Supporting Business-IT Alignment

Modeling the alignment between business and IS/IT

“…A BM can be utilized for RE by gathering and representing high-level business goals, and model business requirements to improve BISITA. Goal modeling as a means to link business strategy and requirements had an interesting evolution in Bleistein's work, with B-SCP [2], a later ontological approach [10] and also a solid BMM integration. Concerning EM, the excellent work on integrating architectural models to tackle the problem of aligning business and IT, first by ARCHIMATE [6] and then with ARMOR [4], led to its establishment as a standard and integration with TOGAF allowing for better high-level goal modeling and requirements traceability, with goals and requirements as central drivers in the architecture development process.…”

“…In a more recent study [10] tried to obviate to some of the difficulties of tracking dependencies between requirements in a project of realistic complexity, using B-SCP and extending it with ontologies. This extension of previous research, defined the semantics enrichment for each link in the mapping from VMOST to a BMM model, through the combination and use of an ontology data structure, using it for representing the requirements and the complex rules which map them together.…”

Alignment between Business Requirement, Business Process, and Software System: A Systematic Literature Review

“…(ix) Dubois et al [37] propose an approach for aligning requirement assurance to business services using i * framework and UML. [49] propose an extension of B-SCP framework. In fact, they present rules to map VMOST (vision, mission, objective, strategy, and tactic) analysis to BMM model (business motivation model).…”

“…e BMM is useful for developers of business plans and business modelers and implementers of software tools and repositories [89]. (viii) VMOST (vision, mission, objective, strategy, tactic) analysis: it is a technique that answers a number of questions in the aim to deconstruct business strategy [49]. (ix) CA (communication analysis): it is a method that focuses on communicative interactions appeared between information system and its environment [90].…”