COBIT and VALIT provide good practices across domain and process frameworks and present activities in a manageable and logical structure. They help optimise IT-enabled investments, ensure service delivery and provide a measure against which to judge when things go wrong. COBIT and VALIT complement each other. While COBIT is concerned with the 'Hows', VALIT is concerned with the 'Whats' and the 'Whys'.

VALIT addresses the questions, ' Are we doing the right things?' and 'Are we getting the benefits?'. COBIT addresses the questions, 'Are we doing things the right way?' and 'Are we doing them well?'. VALIT is a framework for business governance of information systems. It involves selecting and managing the right portfolio of IT-enabled investments that is focused on business strategy and provides metrics for close control on benefits realisation.

COBIT is concerned with IT governance of information systems. It is business oriented and process focused. The whole of COBIT consists of linking business goals to IT Goals, providing metrics and maturity models to measure their achievement, and identifying the associated responsibilities of business and IT process owners.It has a process model with enterprise architecture concepts that help identify the resources essential for process success, viz, applications, information, infrastructure and people.

   

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