What were the areas of focus in the update to COBIT 4.0?
• IT governance Based on the five domains of alignment, value delivery, risk management, resource management and performance measurement, as defined by ITGI. Although COBIT covered most aspects, analysis showed some gaps that have now been filled by adjusting some of the IT process titles and adding some new control objectives. COBIT 4.0 contains a matrix mapping all IT processes to the governance domains. • Business requirements COBITs orientation to business requirements has always been fundamental and based on the information criteria. Extensive research carried out by the University of Antwerp into how IT supports business objectives in a variety of industry sectors provided a generic cross-reference of common business goals to IT goals. A table is provided showing the relationship among business goals, IT goals and COBITs IT processes to help users identify business to IT linkages in their own organizations. This was also used to improve the goal and performance metrics. • Harmoni
