Master's Thesis

Enterprise Architecture and ITIL

Marco Alexandre de Castro Vilela 2013

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Authors:

Marco Alexandre de Castro Vilela (Marco Alexandre de Castro Vilela Vicente)

Supervisors:

Miguel Leitão Bignolas Mira da Silva (Miguel Mira da Silva)

Published in

07/08/2013

Abstract

Business/IT alignment has become one of the most relevant concerns on organizations. Enterprise Architecture (EA) and the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) are two distinct governance approaches with different perspectives, that have become recently dominant between practitioners. However, parallel EA and ITIL projects can lead to wasted resources and a duplication of costs and efforts. To integrate both we propose a specific EA definition for organizations that need to manage IT services. Our goal is to use the EA approach to design an architecture with the ITIL motivations, principles, concepts and methods to perform IT service management, using ArchiMate as the architecture's modeling language. We demonstrate our proposal through a set of ITIL models, applied to organizations, and built according to our ITIL viewpoints. For evaluation we shall use interviews, the Moody and Shanks framework, and the Wand and Weber ontological method.

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RENATES TID

202002225

Degree Name

Doutoramento em Engenharia Informática e de Computadores

Fields of Science and Technology (FOS)

electrical-engineering-electronic-engineering-information-engineering - Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

Keywords

  • Enterprise Architecture
  • ITIL
  • IT Service Management
  • business/IT alignment
  • TOGAF, ArchiMate

Publication language (ISO code)

eng - English

Rights type:

Embargo lifted

Date available:

05/19/2014

Institution name

Instituto Superior Técnico