Presenting VALIT Frameworks and Comparing between Them and Other Enterprise Architecture Framework

It is necessary for each organization to move towards process-focused that it is supported and presided by information technology (IT). IT is considered as a part of processes field. In the information technology era, especially with the advent of network-based economy, organizations plans must be performed based on an architectural design deserving Information Society. Enterprise Architecture provides a framework to design organization based on Information Technology. Val IT framework is not related to enterprise architecture frameworks, but rather to IT governance. IT governance is indeed a paradigm in which it is attempted to make all activities and enterprise mechanisms for the planning, organizing, implementation and control of IT aligned and consistent. This study first discusses the introduction of this framework; then, a comparison between this framework and COBIT as well as between enterprise architecture and Val IT will be done.

Enterprise Architecture Frameworks; COBIT; IT Government; Val IT Framework