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Please note that the TOGAF Certification has been revised as of January 19 2004 to include TOGAF 8 Certification and a new TOGAF Certification Policy. Please visit the new TOGAF Certification web site for further information.

Overview

Certification from The Open Group provides customers with assurance that products and services conform to open standards. This assurance enables market growth, and benefits customers and vendors alike.

In the Architecture field, The Open Group has defined a certification program in support of The Open Group Architecture Framework Version 7 (TOGAF 7).

In order to protect the value of TOGAF by ensuring its consistent application and usage, The Open Group has introduced certification for the following offerings:

	Architecture tools which support TOGAF 7, to ensure that the meaning of a claim of conformance with TOGAF 7 is clear and that the TOGAF 7 ADM is supported consistently in different architecture tools.
	Training courses which instruct in TOGAF 7, to ensure that the course syllabus includes coverage of the necessary elements of TOGAF 7 and its ADM.
	Architects trained in the use of TOGAF 7, to ensure that a common core of knowledge and understanding is transmitted in such courses, and that professional services offered in support of TOGAF 7 are delivered by architects who have completed the necessary training course and have up to date knowledge about TOGAF 7.
	Professional services offered in support of TOGAF 7, to ensure that organizations that offer such services abide by an approved code of practice, and use only properly trained architects for such services.

The Value to Licensees

The TOGAF certification program licenses the use of the term "TOGAF 7" together with The Open Group Certification Mark in association with Certified Offerings. This provides the necessary legal framework to maintain the value of TOGAF to enterprise customers.

The value of certification to potential licensees is thus the ability to use the term "TOGAF 7" in association with products and/or services that support the TOGAF 7 framework and its Architecture Development Method.

In addition, The Open Group:

• publishes and publicises the definitive register of TOGAF 7 certified offerings
• issues certificates that can be used by the vendor in promotion.

The Value to Customers

The value of this certification program to the customers of potential licensees is the knowledge that the vendor has made a legally binding warranty of conformance with the Product Standards referenced in the Certification Program - a warranty that requires compliance not only at the time of registration, but throughout the lifetime of the product or service offering, for as long as it remains registered.

Customers can therefore procure such product and service offerings safe in the knowledge that the vendors of such offerings have taken a professional and commercially responsible approach to the supply of these offerings to the market, and have completed a detailed Statement of Conformance, which the procurer can access freely and compare with those of other certified vendors if they so wish.

Further Information

Please visit the main TOGAF Certification web site for more information.