A Survey on Economic-driven Evaluations of Information Technology

The economic-driven evaluation of information technology (IT) has become an important instrument in the management of IT projects. Numerous approaches have been developed to quantify the costs of an IT investment and its assumed profit, to evaluate its impact on business process performance, and to analyze the role of IT regarding the achievement of enterprise objectives. This paper discusses approaches for evaluating IT from an economic-driven perspective. Our comparison is based on a framework distinguishing between classification criteria and evaluation criteria. The former allow for the categorization of evaluation approaches based on their similarities and differences. The latter, by contrast, represent attributes that allow to evaluate the discussed approaches. Finally, we give an example of a typical economic-driven IT evaluation

Ingeniería de requerimientos orientado a objetivos en almacenes de datos: un estudio comparativo

Data warehouses provide historical information about the organization that needs to be analyzed by the decision makers; therefore, it is essential to develop them in the context of a strategic business plan. In recent years, a number of engineering approaches for goal-oriented requirements have been proposed, which can obtain the information requirements of a data warehouse using traditional techniques and the objectives of the modeling. This paper provides an overview and a comparative study of the treatment of the requirements in the existing approaches to serve as a starting point for further research.Los almacenes de datos proveen información histórica de la organización que requiere ser analizada por los tomadores de decisiones, por lo que es primordial desarrollarlos en el contexto del plan estratégicos del negocio. En los últimos años se han propuesto una serie de enfoques de ingeniería de requerimientos orientada a objetivos que permiten obtener los requisitos de información, a cubrir por el almacén de datos, mediante técnicas tradicionales y del modelado de objetivos. Este trabajo, ofrece una visión general y un estudio comparativo del tratamiento de los requisitos en los actuales enfoques con el fin de servir de punto de inicio a posteriores trabajos de investigación.This work was financed by the Universidad de La Frontera. DIU-FRO Project DI13-0047

Correlating Architecture Maturity and Enterprise Systems Usage Maturity to Improve Business/IT Alignment

This paper compares concepts of maturity models in the areas of Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Systems Usage. We investigate whether these concepts correlate, overlap and explain each other. The two maturity models are applied in a case study. We conclude that although it is possible to fully relate constructs from both kinds of models, having a mature architecture function in a company does not imply a high Enterprise Systems Usage maturity