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A Process Oriented Assessment of the IT Infrastructure Value: A Proposal of an Ontology Based Approach

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Business Information Systems (BIS 2009)

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The impact of IT infrastructure on organizations’ activities and performance is hard to evaluate since complex IT infrastructures affect multiple business processes. An integrated perspective on IT and business processes is required. Previous research dealing with process-based IT impact evaluations lacks practical applications of proposed methods. Adopting a value-based perspective, this paper focuses on the organizational impact of IT and introduces first results from an ongoing research. This paper introduces an ontology based approach to represent the relationships among business processes and IT infrastructure components.

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  1. University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein

    Jan vom Brocke & Christian Sonnenberg

  2. LUISS “Guido Carli” University, Italy

    Alessio Maria Braccini

  3. HILTI Befestigungstechnik AG, Switzerland

    Elisabeth Ender

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Poznań University of Economics, Al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875, Poznań, Poland

    Witold Abramowicz

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Brocke, J.v., Braccini, A.M., Sonnenberg, C., Ender, E. (2009). A Process Oriented Assessment of the IT Infrastructure Value: A Proposal of an Ontology Based Approach. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01190-0_2

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