Title:	THE IT-SOCKET: MODEL-BASED BUSINESS AND IT ALIGNMENT
Author(s):	Robert Woitsch , Wilfrid Utz
ISBN:	978-972-8924-97-3
Editors:	Hans Weghorn and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2009
Edition:	V I, 2
Keywords:	Knowledge Management, Semantics, IT-Socket, Virtual Organisation, IT-Governance, Certification
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	141
Last Page:	148
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Today we’re witnessing the necessity to align Business and Information Technology (IT) as well as the change in the role of IT from an enabler to an industrial sector in its own right. The EU-Project plugIT assumes that businesses will require IT for different reasons and in different ways, and hence introduce an IT-Socket that will realize the vision of businesses “plugging-in” to IT. This paper introduces the idea of plugIT and indicates the first findings. Three demonstration scenarios have been selected: (1) “Certification” of IT infrastructure to stay compliant with regulations, (2) “Virtual Organisation” by evolving the current service orientation to a higher and more business driven abstraction as well as, (3) “Governance” of IT infrastructure introducing business context into highly distributed and complex systems. The IT-Socket follows a model-driven approach by introducing graphical modelling languages as mediators between the domain experts and ontologies. The research challenge is to link human interpretable graphical models – partly semiformal – with machine interpretable semantic formalisms to enable: (1) a tighter involvement of domain experts when expressing formal knowledge specifying business requirements on IT infrastructure and services, (2) different graphical modelling languages for different views on the IT-Socket to provide modelling languages the domain expert is used to work with as well as, (3) a domain specific notation for semantics by integrating formal concepts of semantics with the graphic notation from modelling languages.
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