IT governance is one of the central areas of IS research. This study examines research on Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), a popular governance framework. COBIT is a comprehensive IT governance framework that provides guidelines to IT managers in managing and governing enterprise IT. This paper compiles and analyses extant research on COBIT. Our findings sugges...

Over the past years, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) Systems have been recognized more and more as a serious alternative to common monolithic systems for Enterprise Architectures (EA). An SOA provides a flexible means of effectively mapping business processes to IT processes. However, large IT systems require consistent leadership – IT Governance. For SOAs, governance faces new challenges. ...

the advantages and special characteristics of service oriented architecture and expansion of employing such architecture have brought security topics which are different in some cases from the security principles of traditional information systems. in this article our aim is the examination of various indices of security and the presentation of strategies for security in information systems by ...

certain advantages of service-oriented architecture have led to the spread of this type of architecture around the world. however, some special features of this type of architecture have led to more compromise between the security in the information system and other information systems. the purpose of this paper is to identify and examine the impact of factors and dimensions of the information ...

A shared view on the definition of IT governance is lacking and practitioners do not use present IT governance frameworks to support their decision-making. A commonly agreed upon definition of IT governance would be very useful and would serve the development and refinement of IT governance frameworks and assessment methodologies. This article presents an Architecture Theory Diagram, ATD, and a...

Currently, organizations move from the need to produce high rates of profitability, by the satisfaction of their customers, partners or employees, and by the maintenance of high levels of competitiveness to enable them to face competition and ensure their survival. With the evolution of Information Systems and the Information Technology, increasingly organizations based its activities on these ...

This work seeks to provide a new multi-criteria approach to assess IT Governance (ITG) in the area of Strategic Alignment. The complete methodological development process is described. The evaluation model uses Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and it is targeted to IT processes, more specifically to the COBIT © IT maturity levels, domains and processes, thus providing a differentiated an...

The organizations to be competitive have to provide services and delineate strategies to maintain high levels of profitability and efficiency to cope with changes in markets. Increasingly, organizations based their operational services through its Information Systems (IS) and Information Technology (IT) that need to be managed, controlled and monitored constantly. Although there are several gui...

One of the problems reported by researchers and auditors in the field of spreadsheet risks is that of getting and keeping management’s attention to the problem. Since 1996, the Information Systems Audit & Control Foundation and the IT Governance Institute have published CobiT ® which brings mainstream IT control issues into the corporate governance arena. This paper illustrates how spreadsheet ...

Various companies have implemented IT governance frameworks to improve their management and governance of IT. The benefits and areas of focus of IT governance have been only explored in theory. In this research an international survey of 113 firms using CobiT was conducted to understand the impact on the IT governance focus areas as companies increase their adoption of CobiT. Results indicate t...