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Boundaryless Information Flow & Enterprise Architecture

In October we are holding our next quarterly conference, “Boundaryless Information Flow & Enterprise Architecture.” This conference is designed to help today's organizations breakdown the stovepipes in their IT systems to enable integrated information to be accessed in a secure reliable and timely manner. The meeting will highlight the strength of the consortium atmosphere: information, involvement, and influence are the cornerstones of the value proposition.

Let’s focus on the information side of the value proposition. This conference promises to have something for everyone, from the business manager and the CIO to the IT architect. Attendees will share requirements and experiences of user organizations, understand the approaches being taken by suppliers, learn about the evolving industry standards and best practices, and network with leading practitioners and thought leaders. All of these views helping us understand more of what is required to reduce the barriers to information flow throughout the extended enterprise.

As part of the preparation for this conference and to advance The Open Group's progress on Boundaryless Information Flow we have solicited papers and presentations from vendors and other technology providers addressing "Architectures for Boundaryless Information Flow." (Information on this call for papers can be found at http://www.opengroup.org/cio/CallForPapers.htm.) Select presentations from this call will be given during the conference and you will have an opportunity to ask the authors specific questions to help you understand how and when to use a particular architecture. This will provide you with a wealth of information on what architecturally is being done today or in the near future.

You will also hear from large organizations that are dealing with their Boundaryless Information Flow problems, allowing you to be able to see what you may have in common with their organization and thereby assess “if was good for them, maybe it’s good for me.”

In other sessions of the conference you will learn tips and tricks that make enterprise architecture real and relevant. Sessions will be set up to provide useful information to the architecture practitioner by providing guidance from the initial stages of enterprise architecture through life-cycle management in a seminar-type format.

The remainder of the conference is the member forum where there is a focus on involvement and influence. Many working sessions are establishing specifications of rules, guidelines, and/or definitions of vendor neutral architectures that address Boundaryless Information Flow - in other words, standard architectures that can be useful in any enterprise architecture.

We believe that there is a great deal for CIOs, their partners, and their staff to leverage and thereby improve the chance of success and reduce the chance of making the same mistakes when addressing Boundaryless Information Flow issues.

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