The Changing Role of IT Departments in Enterprise Mashup Environments

  • Authors:
  • Volker Hoyer;Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Media and Communications Management, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland 9000 and SAP Research, St. Gallen, Switzerland 9000;Institute for Media and Communications Management, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland 9000

  • Venue:
  • Service-Oriented Computing --- ICSOC 2008 Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A new paradigm, known as Enterprise Mashups, implicates a shift concerning the service development and consumption process: end users combine and reuse existing Web-based resources within minutes to new applications in order to solve an individual and ad-hoc business problem. In such democratized operational environments, the role of IT departments is changing. They are no longer solely responsible for developing or installing business applications. Instead, end users in the business units compose their own operational environment in a collaborative manner. This paper analyses and discusses challenges and the changing role of IT departments toward service intermediaries by leveraging the St. Gallen Media Reference Model (MRM).