This nice article with its grasping title “Don’t get fooled by IT Governance tools” gives insight in the scattered market of IT Governance software.
IT governance touches upon so many activities such as: managing your IT risks, investments, projects, services, service level agreements, processes (ITIL based?), procedures, IT Strategy, IT goals, IT demand, employee performance, Key Controls (Cobit Based?, SOX related?). There are many tools that are needed to provide a total overview. Some tools assist you in managing operational activities such as projects and service delivery and others are needed to extract all information from these datasources to provide you with company wide historical KPI monitoring capabilities.
Of course it is hard to put vendors in just one corner and I am sure everybody will claim to also have offerings in the other area’s, but this gives you a bit of an idea where vendors at least originated from and what their core offering was before they started to use IT Governance as the new ‘Marketing Buzzword’.
Disclosure — this article has been written by a business associate. We are both involved in the company Mirror42. This company provides software to roll-out IT governance control frameworks.
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