Living IT infrastructures - An ontology-based approach to aligning IT infrastructure capacity and business needs

International Journal of Accounting Information Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 246-274

  vom Brocke, Jan ^a   Braccini, Alessio Maria ^b   Sonnenberg, Christian ^a   Spagnoletti, Paolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN   (Liechtenstein)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^c LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

IT service cost; Ontology; Organizational impact on IT; Process based IT value assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926082105     PISSN: 14670895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accinf.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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