Extending Traditional IT-Governance Knowledge Towards SOA and Cloud Governance

Abstract

Enterprises today often strive to keep up with the paces of technological development. A particular case in point is the IT function where traditional governance approaches are often questioned by technology trends. Examples for such trends in the last ten years are the service-oriented architecture (SOA) and cloud computing. The introduction of SOA in the enterprise was one of the key enablers for cloud computing. Therefore, it can serve as a natural fit for bringing traditional IT governance approaches forward to the challenges of cloud governance. This article presents an approach for extending IT governance mindsets to the areas of SOA and cloud governance. It allows an IT organisation the adaptation and the continuous usage of already established governance knowledge and models during the adoption of cloud computing solutions. The authors also present an application case study where they demonstrate the feasibility of the approach in real-life scenarios in the context of an international telecommunication provider.

Semantic Management of Enterprise Information Systems through Ontologies

“…Cloud governance is a natural extension of IT governance [25], but to date there are mainly two approaches used by the industry to manage cloud services. The first considers cloud providers as common service providers aiming to manage them with typical approaches adopted for non-cloud service providers.…”

Addressing Sustainability in IT-Governance Frameworks

“…One major aspect of governance in the context of IT is the development and facilitation of IT governance frameworks. The objective is to define standardized processes and control metrics for IT provision (Stantchev & Stantcheva, 2012) and to offer approaches for the application of these artefacts in real world organizations (Stantchev & Stantcheva, 2013). Commonly used frameworks area include the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) (Van Bon, 2008) and the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT) (Lawton, 2007).…”

“…A straightforward approach was proposed (Stantchev & Stantcheva, 2012 to create a mapping between the SOA-based approach from (Stantchev & Malek, 2011) and the traditional approaches of ITIL and CoBIT. In the next section authors propose a further incremental extension that aims to address sustainability as a specific aspect of cloud governance.…”

Analysis of Reasons, Implications and Consequences of Demographic Change for IT Departments in Times of Scarcity of Talent

“…At first the company need to have transparency about their needed profiles (Nilles & Senger, 2012). Standards like the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) (Pereira & da Silva, 2010) or the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (CObIT) and ISO/IEC 27002 (Sahibudin, Sharifi, & Ayat, 2008), as well as approaches for Cloud Governance (K. Petruch, Stantchev, & Tamm, 2011;Stantchev & Stantcheva, 2012) provide a good framework for this issue but an accurate recording and selection of resource-requirements is still needed. After the relevance was determined, the recruiting of the identified profiles becomes a tough challenge (Colomo-Palacios, Casado-Lumbreras, Soto-Acosta, & García-Crespo, 2013).…”