METAMODELS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BEST PRACTICES FRAMEWORKS

This article deals with the generation and application of ontological metamodels offrameworks of best practices in IT. The ontological metamodels represent the logicalstructures and fundamental semantics of framework models and constitute adequate toolsfor the analysis, adaptation, comparison and integration of the frameworks of best practicesin IT. The MetaFrame methodology for the construction of the metamodels, founded on thediscipline of the conceptual metamodelling and on the extended Entity/Relationshipmethodology is described herein, as well as the metamodels of the best practices for theoutsourcing of IT, the eSCM-SP v2.01 (eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers)and the eSCM-CL v1.1 (eSourcing Capability Model for Client Organizations), constructedaccording to the MetaFrame methodology.