A domain-specific ontology for IT benchmarking has been developed to bridge the gap between a systematic … of any measured parameters nor the relationship between such parameters exists. Hence, this work proposes an ontology for … the domain of IT benchmarking. The design of this ontology is based on requirements mainly elicited from a domain analysis …

-specific ontology. To preserve the semantic meaning of the data, the ITBM ontology is linked to data sources and functions as the …-specific ontology and are directly available for further business analyses. Moreover, the web-based system supports the process of … mapping ontology concepts to external databases by introducing a semi-automatic mapping recommender and by visualizing …