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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">inf24205</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2013.394</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>SBISAF: A Service-Oriented Business and Information Systems Alignment Method</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Morkevičius</surname><given-names>Aurelijus</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:aurelijus.morkevicius@stud.ktu.lt">aurelijus.morkevicius@stud.ktu.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Gudas</surname><given-names>Saulius</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:gudas@vukhf.lt">gudas@vukhf.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Silingas</surname><given-names>Darius</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:darius.silingas@gmail.com">darius.silingas@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_002"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Informatics, Information Systems Department, Studentų 50-313a, LT-51368 Kaunas, Lithuania</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001">Vilnius University, Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, Muitinės 8, LT-44280 Kaunas, Lithuania</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_002">Vytautas Magnus University, Faculty of Informatics, Department of Applied Informatics, Vileikos 8-409, LT-44404 Kaunas, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>24</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>231</fpage><lpage>251</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>02</month><year>2012</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>01</day><month>05</month><year>2013</year></date></history><abstract><p>This paper presents a new approach for the business and information systems (IS) alignment consisting of a framework, metamodel, process, and tools for implementing it in practice. The purpose of the approach is to fill in the gap between the existing conceptual business and IS alignment frameworks and the empirical business and IS alignment methods. The suggested approach is based on the SOA, GRAAL, and enterprise modeling techniques such as TOGAF, DoDAF, and UPDM. The proposed approach is applied on four real world projects. Both the application results and the small example are provided to validate the suitability of the approach.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>enterprise architecture</kwd><kwd>enterprise modeling</kwd><kwd>business and IS alignment</kwd><kwd>SOA</kwd><kwd>service provisioning</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>