A Proposed Model of IT Governance within Cloud Computing and Data Management in Higher Education

Abstract

The organization strategic design is able to be synced and supported through accurate and proper governance implementation. IT Governance reflected as a success key for organizations, including higher education's institutions. In supporting the sustainability and the organization stride, IT governance for the higher education organization needs regular assessment to maintain the dynamic technological and business circumstances. Recently, we see technology management in IT services is experiencing transformations phase to service management. Cloud computing (CC) which viewed as an IT transformation, is introducing the enhanced IT innovation system that works at a management budget throughout the concept of IT services. Despite its benefits, CC has not commonly embraced due to many factors, in particular, associated with the transfer of business data and its security. This makes one of today's organizations problems, especially concerning how cloud technology influenced data management. However, IT governance eventually will proceed to switch forward to CC technology. Organizations such higher educations will need to overcome these matters and afford to develop policies related to the cloud to manage the capabilities brought by CC and meet their conditions. Based on above conditions, this paper tries to proposed IT governance with CC and the data management model framework which formed based on primary aspects in governance processes with its COBIT 5 instructions and also data management with its principle for data assets managing.