Glossary.

A helpful A-Z glossary listing key Business and IT transformation terms and technical definitions..

  • Abstract Process

    An Abstract Process represents interactions between a private business process and another process or participant.
  • Abstraction

    Abstraction is a technique for producing a high-level summarization or generalization of more complex or detailed topics or content.
  • Activity

    An Activity is work performed by an organization using business processes. An activity can be atomic or non-atomic (compound). Types of activities used within Process Models include Process, Sub-Process, and Task.
  • Activity Cost Worksheet

    Activity Cost Worksheets are a matrix that are used to analyze various costs of a set of activities.
  • Actor

    An Actor is a normally used to define a physical or quasi-physical entity, such as a person, organization, or system.
  • Ad Hoc Workflow System

    An Ad Hoc Workflow System is a type of workflow system that waits on users to indicate what should happen next.

Quick Reference Guide: COBIT 5 Framework

Apr 24, 2014, 00:00 AM by Russel Jones
This quick reference guide provides useful information for organizations either using or looking to implement COBIT 5.

COBIT® 5 is arguably the most widely used and well known IT governance and management best practice framework developed by ISACA. The COBIT 5 framework is generic and useful for enterprises of all sizes, whether commercial, not-for-profit or in the public sector.

Simply stated, it helps enterprises create optimal value from IT by maintaining a balance between realizing benefits and optimizing risk levels and resource use.

This quick reference guide provides useful information for organizations either using or looking to implement COBIT 5 and serves as a supplement to our library of white papers and other guidance on IT Governance.