Business performance metrics and information technology cost analysis

A computer program product for processing information technology infrastructure costs, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor to:

• identify a plurality of business architecture component descriptors;
• identify a plurality of measurement component descriptors, each descriptor comprising at least one variable selected from the group consisting of:
• a business metric,
• an information technology resource metric,
• a cost metric of an information technology resource,
• a service metric of an information technology service, and
• a cost metric of an information technology service;
• instantiate a plurality of business architecture components corresponding to the plurality of business architecture component descriptors;
• instantiate a plurality of measurement components corresponding to the plurality of measurement component descriptors;
• couple a first one of the business architecture components with a second one of the business architecture components by a qualitative connector;
• and
• couple a first one of the measurement components with a second one of the measurement components by an executable connector defining a computable dependency between the first and second measurement components.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• providing values for certain business metrics;
• and
• coupling a business metric with a computed metric by an executable connector defining a computable dependency between the business metric and the computed metric;
• computing at least one computed metric via the executable connector, the computed metric selected from the group consisting of:
• an information technology resource metric;
• a cost metrics of an information technology resource;
• a service metrics of an information technology service;
• and
• a cost metrics of an information technology service.