Paper Info
Title
A Conceptualization of IT Platform for the Needs of Enterprise IT Landscape Modeling
Abstract
An Information Technology (IT) platform is commonly perceived not only as an important part of the IT infrastructure of an organization, but also as an artifact enabling innovation and value creation by supporting the provision of various IT services. The concept of an IT platform is however quite broad and there seems to be a lack of common agreement what actually an IT platform is and how it should be described. This lack of consensus is detrimental to the development of IT Infrastructure modeling languages, which currently hardly ever support detailed modeling of an IT platform in all its variety. As a response, the aims of this paper are to: (1) analyze the way an IT platform is perceived in the literature as well as by currently existing IT infrastructure modeling languages, (2) conceptualize an IT platform by identifying its distinguishing features, and finally (3) to introduce an extended domain-specific modeling language for IT infrastructure (ITML) accounting for a more detailed conceptualization of an IT platform. We contribute a conceptualization in which (1) the platform's functionality and constraints are first class citizens, and (2) the idea of a platform stack, whereby the functionality and constraints on one type of IT platform (e.g., a hardware platform), serve as a foundation for another type of platform (e.g., an operating system in the case of a hardware platform).
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/CBI.2016.17
2016 IEEE 18th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI)
Keywords
Field
DocType
enterprise IT landscape modeling,IT platform conceptualization,information technology platform,innovation management,value creation,IT service provisioning,IT Infrastructure modeling languages,extended domain-specific modeling language-for-IT infrastructure,ITML,platform functionality,platform constraints,hardware platform,operating system
Open platform,Software engineering,Information technology,Conceptualization,Knowledge management,Modeling language,First class,Value creation,Information technology management,Engineering
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
01
2378-1963
978-1-5090-3232-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Monika Kaczmarek121520.94
Sybren De Kinderen211318.53