Business and information technology alignment through business service orientation

  • Authors:
  • Aida Amini Motlagh;Mir Ali Seyyedi

  • Affiliations:
  • Software Engineering Department, Islamic Azad University, ST. Tehran, Iran;Software Engineering Department, Islamic Azad University, ST. Tehran, Iran

  • Venue:
  • ICAI'10 Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS international conference on Automation & information
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The alignment issue between business and information technology is one of the most mind boggling problems enterprises encounter in achieving an agile and dynamic business it is so important that has a direct effect on the overall performance of an enterprise, in enterprises that there is an alignment, they have better business and are capable of presenting more suitable services with higher efficiency to customers. That's why the alignment issue between business and information technology has been transformed in to one of the most important subjects facing organizations chief information officers. One of the mentioned solutions in this field is the discussion of enterprise business service orientation that creates a new concept called service oriented enterprises. Whereas in most services oriented enterprises, business structures begin work from information technology and convert these abilities into a service, information technology services are an important element of alignment. In this article, a solution has been presented to create an alignment between business and information technology. New modeling services such as business and software service elements rather than business processes are being used so these elements are able to more accurately describe the operations of an enterprise business.