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Member Newsletter
May 2004
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In This Issue:
CEO Corner with Allen Brown
Allen introduces Carl Bunje’s
paper on business agility, the role of an IT Standards Framework
and the unique opportunity it presents for The Open Group
I would like to share with you an article written by one of
our prominent members, Carl Bunje of Boeing, who is also the
Chair of The Open Group’s Customer Council. The article
discusses the value of IT standards and the importance of
enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™, and invites
The Open Group to establish a comprehensive standards framework,
which would address the industry need for standards coordination.
Carl calls for a standards framework based on commonly agreed
upon aspects of a future vision, which, when viewed as a standards
roadmap, could illustrate the interplay of standards over
time, suggesting areas of convergence, warning of potential
conflicts, and identifying critical gaps.
With its broad industry representation, and given that many
of the key IT industry suppliers are The Open Group’s
members, The Open Group is uniquely positioned to establish
such a framework, evaluate and position individual standards
as they address the future of IT. I am excited about this
opportunity and would like to invite you to share your thoughts
and feedback.
Business Agility, The Role of an IT
Standards Framework, and A Unique Opportunity for The Open
Group
Carl F. Bunje, Jr., The Boeing
Company
Alternate Director, The Open Group’s Customer Council
Chair
This topic is not new. The value of IT standards and IT standards
frameworks, and their potential to enable flexibility within
a corporate computing infrastructure have been discussed for
decades. The involvement of member companies of The Open Group
in IT standards development activities is firm evidence of
the belief in and commitment to that value and potential.
However, the current opportunity for The Open Group and its
members to realize the value and potential of IT standards
occurs at a time when the need is critical and the scale unparalleled.
Competitiveness and Business
Agility
To successfully compete in the corporate environment today,
no matter which market sector is involved, a company must
be nimble, agile and flexible to accommodate rapidly changing
world and market conditions. These changes may be tactical
in nature, necessitating production adjustment, product reconfiguration,
or marketing redirection. It may also be of a more significant
nature, affecting strategic direction, new product lines,
acquisitions and divestitures, geographical movement and organizational
change. A successful company must be able to adapt its processes,
its workforce and its infrastructure to meet these challenges
rapidly, with low cost and minimal disruption of operations.
In a broader market context, there are few companies that
can remain independent of other entities in their market sector.
Partnerships among companies are increasingly necessary to
bring critical skills and resources to bear, and to distribute
risk across a broader base. Today’s partner may be tomorrow’s
competitor, vice-versa, or both partner and competitor on
different projects at the same time. A company’s suppliers
are more frequently asked to share risk. They may simultaneously
be supplying competitors, and relationships may need to be
contracted rapidly, changed efficiently and terminated effectively
to address changing needs, requirements and competitive position.
Similar situations pertain to a company’ s relationship
with its customers. Additionally, customer service, and in
many cases, long term product support in a rapidly shifting
market add to the need for agile business relationships with
customers, suppliers and partners.
Enabling Role of IS
The agility of both internal and external business relationships
is highly dependent upon the flow of information, and the
control of that flow. This is the essence of the concept of
“Boundaryless Flow of Information”. It does not
mean that information flows in an unrestricted manner in any
and all directions, as might be its literal interpretation.
It does mean that the required information flows seamlessly
among appropriate participants in ways that can be tailored
rapidly to meet the needs of the changing business environment.
There are many issues that must be addressed for this to be
feasible, many of which fall within the purview of IS or at
least have significant bearing there. Certainly the meaning
of information must be clear and consistent, and domain specific
semantic models are emerging to address this area. Exchange
of information among systems must rely on common communication
mechanisms, currently emerging, at least in part, among web
services oriented technologies. Control of information flow
depends on much of what the security infrastructure is able
to provide, and the reliability and dependability of the end-to-end
application of systems management capabilities. Underlying
all of this are directory, platform and networking capabilities
that also must keep pace with the demands of interoperability,
reliability and flexibility.
Vision of IS Future
To meet these requirements a number of visions of the future
capabilities required of IS and the potential architectures
needed to supply those capabilities are emerging. Virtualization
seems to be a common thread through which interoperability
is being addressed. Virtualization of information can be effected
through information taxonomies wherein common semantics can
be distilled into rules of interpretation. Virtualization
of applications, separating business function from the common
interfaces is emerging in the area of web services and service
grids. This concept of service oriented architecture is extending
deep into the supporting infrastructure in areas of security,
management and communications. Its extent includes virtualization
of the platform environments themselves through the concepts
of grid related technologies.
Members of The Open Group Governing Board are not unfamiliar
with this vision. Some of the most widely recognized roadmaps
to this future are emerging from Governing Board companies.
IBM’s “On Demand”, HP’s “Adaptive
Computing”, and Sun’s “N1” initiatives
address much of what must be accomplished to achieve the capabilities
of this next generation of agile IS, and all have explicitly
stated that standards are the one most critical element in
bringing these visions to fruition.
Enabling Role of Standards
IT standards are crucial. The complexity of such an envisioned
computing environment, extending from physical foundations
to engineering and financial information, and encompassing
the interplay of internal enterprise systems as well as necessarily
more tightly controlled e-business interactions, all in a
heterogeneous IT environment, cannot succeed with out standardization
of interfaces, behaviors and meanings. This has certainly
been recognized, as evidenced by the number of active and
emerging standards consortia and forums. However, these technologically
focused activities may not be sufficient to ensure that the
standards so developed will effectively contribute to achieving
any of the comprehensive visions.
Most standards activities are born from specific interoperability
needs within the relatively narrow context of specific technology
domains. As a result there is a risk that they may be insufficient
to meet those same requirements within a broader context.
Some of the most visionary suppliers of IT technology frequently
pursue specific standards within the context of their unique
visions. Often, it appears that this is dictated by their
marketing roadmaps, with an underlying assumption that the
first to define and implement a “standard” can
thereby influence the direction of the market. The frequent
result is competing standards, each of which addresses slightly
different interpretations of the requirements, and fragments
the market to be somewhat less interoperable than what otherwise
might have been possible.
This is not necessarily the most effective or desirable outcome
of standards activities, at least not from the perspective
of an enterprise trying to deploy a flexible, adaptable, and
heterogeneous IS environment. Such an enterprise is often
challenged to choose among these competing standards, limiting
potential agility. What is needed is a standards framework,
based on commonly agreed upon aspects of a future vision,
with which standards activities can gain a broader and more
comprehensive context. Such a framework, when viewed as a
standards roadmap, could illustrate the interplay of standards
over time, suggesting areas of convergence, warning of potential
conflicts, and identifying critical gaps. From an enterprise
IT perspective, it might lso provide guidance on developing
and deploying agility-enhancing internal and e-business capabilities.
Opportunity for The Open
Group
The Open Group is uniquely positioned to provide the industry
with such a framework. The Governing Board is made up of some
of the key suppliers in the IT industry. Some of these companies
have already expended significant effort in defining their
future visions of IT, and aligning their strategic directions
to those visions. If common ground can be found in their views
of what standards are needed to achieve these visions, the
beginnings of a viable standards framework could be established.
The Open Group provides another unique advantage. The necessary
validation of such a standards framework can be achieved through
participation of the customer, academic, consultant and other
supplier members. Such broad industry representation is unique
to The Open Group and is critical to the usefulness and credibility
of a standards framework.
Establishing a comprehensive standards framework for the IT
industry would be highly visible, and if successful, would
center The Open Group as one of the more significant consortia
in the open standards arena. This would not be without controversy
or resistance. Competition exists in all aspects of the IT
industry. But there is no common context for evaluating and
positioning individual standards or potential opportunities
for standards as they address the future of IT. It can certainly
be argued that The Open Group is in one of the best positions
to fill that role.
Not to be forgotten is the potential for conformance testing,
branding, and other follow on opportunities that might contribute
to the business viability. Although such activities should
not be the driving force in establishing a standards framework,
since the framework must first and foremost address the industry
need for standards coordination, it is a necessary consideration
for viable business case.
The Open Group Governing Board is in the unique position of
being able to initiate establishment of a standards framework,
the ultimate result of which would be agile business environments,
enabled by agile IT infrastructures, supported by the major
industry players, suppliers and customers alike. I would encourage
the Governing Board to consider this as a strategic opportunity
for The Open Group, and if they agree, at their earliest convenience
to determine a plan for moving forward with such an endeavor.
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CIO Corner with Terry Blevins
Carl Bunje’s paper on Business Agility published in
this edition of the newsletter struck a cord with me. In this
paper Carl really captures the essence of why we need to do
a few things differently to address the greatest challenge
faced by this industry today - that is to truly enable Business
Agility!
I’d like to elaborate on this point and address the
importance of making advances in this area in The Open Group
- advances that will help each and every participant in a
way that is consistent with the demands of professional IT
organizations.
So first let’s examine some of the demands of IT organizations.
I have had many opportunities to speak with many key people
in many different organizations, and they all seem to have
at least one thing in common. They all have to deal with two
related trends:
- One trend is the ever-increasing demand on our information
technology. Regardless if the business is going well or
the business is slowing down, the demand for information
technology keeps increasing.
- The other trend is slowing budgets. Now budgets may not
be decreasing everywhere, but let’s agree that the
increase in demand is greater than the increase in IT budget.
This ever-increasing gap between demand and budget is causing
CIOs to seek to do “more for less” and it is this
situation that is causing CIOs to look for every opportunity
for leverage. Open source, outsourcing, offshore development,
and collaborative developments are some examples of leverage
opportunities.
What are some of the other relevant pressures on CIOs and
IT managers? As you might have already heard, there is ever
increasing pressure to align information technology with the
needs of the business. Making information technology an enabler,
as opposed to a hurdle. There is also a need to increase accountability
within information technology organizations to improve cost
performance, by driving down costs while driving productivity
up to address the previously mentioned gap. Also, information
technology is being pressured to demonstrate measured productivity
improvements within the business and provide tangible evidence
of business process performance improvements - ways to measure
the agility of the business. And all the while the information
technology organizations are responsible for the network availability
and ensuring the environment is secure.
Information technology organizations are also pressured to
drive standardization with the goal of reducing costs associated
with variability of products: costs such as training costs,
support costs and parts replacement costs, while making the
environment more flexible.
There are other pressures that are related to how many information
technology organizations manage themselves. For example, there
is a pressure to have effective business driven processes
to reconcile and adequately govern the activity of the information
technology organization.
Organizations are also faced with short term spending, short
product life cycles, and rapid technological change that result
in larger than desired capital commitments and being out of
phase with business cycles. They must also deal with sub-optimized
spending due to budgeting and planning activities focused
purely on local spending rather than taking a global view.
And we shouldn’t forget the pressures related to understanding
and managing the hidden information technology costs. Finally,
information technology organization must manage numerous vendors.
Today’s vendor management is frequently sub-optimal
and the use of standards for managing vendors is either lacking
or ineffective.
This is a lot of pressure. But if an information technology
organization doesn’t confront these issues early, they
build up and start having serious consequences. Some can be
felt early on, others take years to reveal themselves, but
they do come.
One of the costly problems that appear is a proliferation
of individual point solutions in the environment. These individual
point solutions demand a very high cost of integration when
new systems are introduced. This is happening today! Not leveraging
potential benefits of standard components has direct consequences
such as:
- Not being able to leverage discount deals as much as
possible,
- Incurring ever increasing support costs, and
- Having a less responsive support organization.
Another example is security, which is at risk if key issues
are not dealt with early on – there is an ever-increasing
cost for security and long leads times to deliver security
as the environment evolves.
Overall I believe it is fair to say that if these issues are
not dealt with, then the perceived effectiveness of the information
technology organization will continue to be low.
So all of these pressures together generate questions that
must be answered, questions like:
- How do I understand where change is needed?
- What direction is appropriate to take?
- What processes are in most need of support to maximize
yield?
- How do we ensure information security and integrity?
- How do we ensure that the technical components are fit
for purpose?
- How do we pick the right solutions and ensure support
for standards?
- How do we incorporate a new system?
- How do we impact what is being deployed?
- How do we create and keep alignment with the business?
This is a lot of pressure, and there are a lot of questions.
Those that are dealing with them need tools to help them.
Enterprise Architecture is one such tool - I would say it
is the essential tool for the CIO. We all have evidence that
when a bigger picture view is taken, different decisions are
made. In my experience, the tool that gives that big picture
is enterprise architecture. It is a business management tool
and one of the most important tools that a CIO can have in
their tool kit.
Let me ask you how architecture is used when an owner of a
building considers tearing down a wall? Before one tears down
a wall, you check the architecture blueprint to determine
what role that wall is playing and what needs it is serving.
If it is a bearing wall, a certain decision is made, if it
is not, another decision is made. It is obvious that a decision
to remove a bearing wall can have significant structural and
cost ramifications. This is what Enterprise Architecture helps
you with - making decisions with your eyes open.
Now I have to point out that enterprise architecture is different
than technical architecture. Technology architecture done
without business context leads to building silos, and silos
result in higher cost of integration, which is being demanded
by new initiatives in every industry to improve business processes.
Cost of integration is on the order of 33% of total IT cost.
Correctly implemented, Enterprise Architecture will support
you to make good sound business decisions, and you will be
able to take a huge step forward in improving the effectiveness
of the Information Technology organization.
If you choose to engage with Enterprise Architecture, you
should consider engaging with The Open Group, which can provide
you with the latest information, network of peers who are
facing similar issues, and influence opportunities to make
progress faster and better, to get more for less.
I am convinced that Enterprise Architecture is a business
management tool that delivers on alignment between information
technology and the business - that enables the development
of the infrastructure for the agile business. If the customers
of IT, the vendors of IT, and other consortia work together,
use Enterprise Architecture to produce common business patterns
for customers, and then populate the business patterns with
solutions that have the right sets of standards, we will take
a big step toward filling out the standards framework that
Carl calls for in his paper.
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Conference Preview: Boundaryless Information Flow™: Enterprise Information Management
As boundaries in organizations are demolished and silos or
stovepipes eliminated, the challenge of information management
becomes critical to business success. Knowing what information
is available, how to gain access to it securely and safely,
how to merge and fuse data from different sources and how
– and when – to share relevant information with
business partners are fundamental questions for all businesses.
Managing information, ensuring that it is collected efficiently,
verified for accuracy, stored securely and safely and is available
when required in the right format is what this conference
will discuss.
At The Open Group’s conference “Boundaryless Information
Flow™: Enterprise Information Management” at Boston’s
Hyatt Harborside Hotel, July 19-23, 2004 you will learn by
practical examples and case studies from industry experts
and peers:
- Best practices for establishing an enterprise information
strategy and implementing a new business information infrastructure
- Best practices for information strategy in mergers and
acquisitions
- How to deal with multinational / international business
information management, including the legal and standards
issues
- Why information management requires open standards and
services
- What security issues arise when boundaries become permeable
and how to cope with them
- What the information security issues of outsourcing are
- What vendors are providing to help customers achieve Boundaryless
Information Flow
For more information and to register for the conference at
the pre-June 18 Early-bird rate, please visit http://www.opengroup.org/boston2004/registration.htm
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Board Talk
Post a poster at The Open Group conference, Boston, MA, July
19 - 23, 2004, Hyatt Harborside, as part of "Board Talk".
Let the conference attendees know what you are doing; your
new solutions, case studies, requirements or specifications,
which would support Boundaryless Information Flow in a secure,
reliable and timely manner.
Let the 'posters' do the talking.
To learn how to participate, please check out http://www.opengroup.org/boston2004/boardtalk.htm
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Conference Wrap-Up: Boundaryless Information Flow™: Managing The Flow
At The Open Group’s Spring 2004 conference, Boundaryless
Information Flow™: Managing the Flow, industry and government
executives discussed the challenges of information management
and emphasized the need for pervasive interoperability and
a holistic approach.
Allen Brown, The Open Group’s President and CEO, noted
that The Open Group’s vision of the Boundaryless Information
Flow™ is becoming ubiquitous as the recognition of the
need to eliminate boundaries spreads. Major industry leaders
are now calling for end-to-end information integration and
elimination of silos and standalone islands of automation.
“With the continuous pressure on producing results,
forward looking organizations are taking a holistic approach,”
Brown noted. “They want to address the whole lifecycle
of information management – from creation to sharing
and reuse to impact on business results.”
Christian Devillers from the IDA Program, European Commission,
discussed the current efforts of the IDA Program for efficient,
effective and secure exchange of information between EC member
administrations and community institutions, based on establishing
operational interoperable trans-European telematic networks.
According to Devillers, the underlying principles include,
among others, accessibility, multilingualism, security, personal
data protection, and use of open standards and multilateral
solutions.
Joao Serras Pereira from Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade
elaborated on the topic of interoperability and horizontal
integration with the example of the Netframe project. This
is an EC-funded research project to establish a documented
framework for online, concurrent engineering and cooperation
within the supply chain of the aeronautical and automotive
industries. As a foundation, Netframe selected The Open Group’s
TOGAF - an industry consensus framework and method that is
technology and tool neutral, proven in practice, publicly
available and underpinned by certification.
Summaries of presentations at the conference are available
at http://www.opengroup.org/public/member/proceedings/q204/
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Enterprise e-mail Management
Establishing and enforcing an enterprise e-mail policy is
an important element of Information Management. As part of
The Open Group’s Enterprise Information Management conference
in Boston, MA, the Messaging Forum will address two important
aspects of enterprise e-mail, security of e-mail and Spam.
Secure Messaging
The demand for e-mail security is growing rapidly, to protect
commercially sensitive information and to meet legal requirements.
The Messaging Forum is investigating a number of different
email encryption scenarios, including both client-to-client
and secure messaging gateways.
On Monday, July 19, The Messaging Forum will be launching
its S/MIME Gateway certification program for interoperable
products that encrypt mail at the enterprise boundary for
transmission over public networks.
On Tuesday July 20, The Messaging Forum will present a workshop
entitled Bridging the Bridges. With representation from European
and North American Certificate Authorities (CAs) the meeting
will look at the barriers to the establishment of international
cross-recognition programs to enable enterprises to obtain
and validate security certificates (containing encryption
keys, authentication credentials and electronic signatures)
independent of the original issuer of the certificate.
On Wednesday, July 21, the focus will switch back to S/MIME
Gateway certification. Suppliers of products that conform
to the S/MIME Gateway Profile specification will provide more
details about the capabilities of their products and how to
establish an interoperable e-mail system, which encrypts e-mail
at the domain gateway. The second half of the day will be
a working meeting to examine how the S/MIME Gateway Profile
needs to be evolved to meet the needs of different Industry
Sectors.
Managing Spam
Unsolicited email, Spam, has become a major impediment to
the effectiveness of electronic mail. The Messaging Forum
is focused on the impact of Spam on the enterprise.
On Thursday, July 22, the Messaging Forum meeting will focus
on how to manage unsolicited e-mail, Spam. The Messaging Forum
will present the results of a market research activity, to
define the business problem posed by Spam in the enterprise
and the characteristics of an effective and implementable
solution. Proponents of different approaches to address the
problem will present their approaches within the context of
the problem statement. Short-term and long-term solutions
will be considered. In line with The Open Group's commitment
to work co-operatively with other organizations, groups and
consortia working on controlling Spam will be invited to participate.
Just Published: The Managers Guide to Coping with Spam http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/g034.htm
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The Open Group Spam Survey
The Messaging Forum is going to carry out market research
and conduct The Open Group Spam Survey, which will help define
the problem and assess the effectiveness of different solutions.
The results will be presented at The Open Group’s Enterprise
Information Management conference in Boston, on July 22, 2004.
Help define the Spam problem and share your thoughts. This
web-based survey should only take a few minutes of your time:
http://www.mglweb.com/spam/spam_survey.htm
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The Open Group Online Book Store Now Open
We are please to announce that the online book store is now
open for business, accepting credit card payments including
Mastercard, VISA, Discover and American Express. Please feel
free to check it out: http://www.opengroup.org/publications/catalog/
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Single UNIX® Specification: the 2004 Edition of the Base Specifications Issue 6 Published
We are pleased to announce publication of the 2004 Edition
of the Base Specifications Issue 6. These are technically
identical to IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition, and comprise the
core volumes of the Single UNIX® Specification Version
3.
This latest edition incorporates the recently published Technical
Corrigendum 2. The specifications are available in html format
(available to all) and pdf (available to members only). Look
for documents T041,C046, C047, C048 and C049 in The Open Group
publications catalog at http://www.opengroup.org/publications/catalog/un.htm
The Base Specifications are developed by the Austin Group,
a joint working group of the IEEE, The Open Group, and ISO/IEC
JTC 1/SC22/WG15. To find out more information on the Austin
Group including how to join see http://www.opengroup.org/austin/.
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Governing Board Election Update
The Open Group's membership is electing 4 members to serve
2-year terms on our Governing Board starting from July 2004.
Member-Directors make up one third of the Governing Board,
so they exert a significant influence over The Open Group's
direction and responsiveness to the view of members.
Election of Member-Directors is now underway. The nominations
closed on April 30th. The actual voting runs from May 15 to
June 11.
We have a strong set of Customer-Member candidates and Supplier-Member
candidates. Each has provided their personal election statement
and their short biography. We invite members to check these
candidates. At close of nominations the number of Customer-Member
candidates equaled the number of Governing Board vacancies,
so only the Supplier-Members will need to vote.
To learn more and to vote, please see http://www.opengroup.org/elections/
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Allen Brown to speak on Boundaryless Information Flow™
at ETIS Global Conference in Stockholm, Sweden
Allen Brown, The Open Group’s President and CEO, will
discuss Boundaryless Information Flow™: Managing the
Flow at ETIS Global Conference Aligning IT & Corporate
Goals in the Information Age. The conference will be held
June 10-11 in at Scandic Hotel Anglais in Stockholm, Sweden,
and will address the need to create flexible operational models
that define how business and IT work together every day and
at every level of the organization.
For more information and to register: http://www.etis.org/activities/ETIS_Conference_2004Agenda.asp
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Graham Bird, The Open Group’s Vice President of Marketing, to discuss Setting up Consortia
and Alliance Networks: Best Practices, Tricks and Traps
Graham Bird, The Open Group's Vice President of Marketing,
will discuss Setting up Consortia and Alliance Networks: Best
Practices, Tricks and Traps at A.S.A.P. Marketing and Channel
Alliance Conference in Dallas, Texas, June 21-22, 2004.
Forming alliance networks or consortia requires a special
set of approaches and techniques, very different from "normal
business". The Open Group has helped form and manage
many major consortia including the Bluetooth SIG, X Consortium,
Distributed Management Task Force, and the Net Centric Operations
Consortium. Bird will address some of the best approaches
and practices, learned over eighteen years of providing services,
to use when creating a consortium or alliance. The key attributes
to success and some of the traps to avoid will be examined
and discussed, as well as case examples of how specific consortia
and alliances were developed.
For more information and to register:
http://www.strategic-alliances.org/events/mktchannelcongspr04/mktconfdallas04.htm
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Global EAI Summit
The integration industry is at a crossroads. The Enterprise
Application Integration Industry Association (EAIIC) presents
the Global EAI Summit to be held in Banff (Alberta), Canada,
May 24-28, 2004, which will offer sessions and tutorials on
business leadership, technical and product innovation, and
integration research. To address the integration challenge,
the Summit will bring the thought leaders, technical innovators,
and pioneering end users to build consensus and a shared vision
to move forward in user-community driven environment.
EAIIC is pleased to offer a discounted registration rate to
members of The Open Group (a member organization of EAIIC).
The Open Group members are invited to register for the Global
EAI Summit at the discounted rate typically enjoyed by EAIIC
members. To register now please visit http://www.globaleaisummit.com
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The Wireless Community & Mobile Users Conference
The Wireless Education & Technology Center at CSU Monterey
Bay presents “The Wireless Community & Mobile Users
Conference” in Monterey, California, June 2-4, 2004.
Wireless technologies involve stakeholders from businesses,
government agencies, education, healthcare, and nonprofits—entities
who by working together can create a community-wide enterprise
to deploy networks that serve a broad spectrum of users.
The Wireless Community & Mobile User Conference addresses
this vital need, and brings together regional and national
decision-makers to plan and collaborate, to inform each other
about projects, and to partner on extending wireless applications.
You will have many opportunities to share information about
how wireless networks are planned, financed, deployed and
managed.
Register now for an early bird discount! For a brochure, conference
information, & to register please visit: http://wetec.csumb.edu/WeTEC_conference.htm
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Certification News
SIF Compliance Program
The Open Group is pleased to announce that the following product
has been registered as conforming to the SIF-enabled Application
Product Standard 1.1:
SunGuard Pentamation, Inc - eSchoolPLUS 1.x with SunGard Pentamation
SIF Agent 1.5
To view all current SIF certifications and Conformance Statements,
please see the SIFCertification Register at http://www.opengroup.org/sif/cert/register.html
For more information on the SIF compliance program, please
refer to:
http://www.opengroup.org/sif/cert
LSB Certification News
The Open Group is pleased to announce that SUSE Linux AG has
registered:
SUSE Linux 9.1 as conforming to the LSB Runtime Environment
for IA32 version 1.3 product standard.
To read the Conformance Statement, please refer to http://www.opengroup.org/lsb/cert/register.html
For more information on the Free Standards Group Certification
program, please refer to http://www.freestandards.org/certification/
For the latest official list of LSB registered products, please
refer to http://www.opengroup.org/lsb/cert/register.html
TOGAF 7 Certification News
The Open Group is pleased to announce that the following have
recently been registered
under the TOGAF 7 Certification Program:
TOGAF 7 Certified
Judith. Jones, Architecting-the-Enterprise
TOGAF 8 Certification News
The Open Group is pleased to announce that the following have
recently been registered under the TOGAF 8 Certification Program:
TOGAF 8 Certified-
Peter Clark, Capita IT Services
Jason Columbo, C&C Technology Limited
Brian Cutler, C&C Technology Limited
John Foster, C&C Technology Limited
Nigel Gilmour, Capita IT Services
Bruce Graham, C&C Technology Limited
Chris Haughton-Brown, BBC
Stephen Roberts, Capita IT Services
Victor Shum, C&C Technology Limited
Nigel Tebbutt, BT Syntegra UK
For further information please refer to the register at
http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/cert/register.html
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Industry Events Calendar
Events of The Open Group
Boundaryless Information Flow™:
Enterprise Information Management
July 19-23, 2004
Boston, USA
http://www.opengroup.org/boston2004
Boundaryless Information Flow™:
Securing the Extended Enterprise
October 18-21, 2004
New Orleans, USA
http://www.opengroup.org/events
Boundaryless Information Flow™:
Identity, Access and Trust
January 24-28, 2005
San Francisco, USA
http://www.opengroup.org/events
Boundaryless Information Flow™:
Secure Architecture, Web, and Mobility
April 25-29 2005
Dublin, Ireland
http://www.opengroup.org/events
Boundaryless Information Flow™:
Managing the Enterprise
July 18-22, 2005
New York, USA
http://www.opengroup.org/events
Other Industry Events
Global EAI Summit
Enterprise Application Integration
May 24-28, 2004
Banff (Alberta), Canada
Terry Blevins, VP & CIO of The Open Group, will present
the TOGAF poster at the Poster Session on Wednesday, May 26
between 5:30pm - 7:30pm.
http://www.globaleaisummit.com
Inbox conference
June 2-4, 2004
San Jose, CA
http://www.inboxevent.com
- Code for a $100 discount on conference registration: IBOGM04.
Mike Lambert, The Open Group’s Messaging Forum Director,
will moderate a roundtable discussion on future threats to
the mailbox on June 4
The Wireless Community & Mobile Users Conference
June 2-4, 2004
Monterey, California
http://wetec.csumb.edu
Aligning IT & Corporate Goals in
the Information Age
June 10-11, 2004
Stockholm, Sweden
http://www.etis.org/activities/ETIS_Conference_2004Agenda.asp
Allen Brown, The Open Group’s President and CEO, will
discuss Boundaryless Information Flow:
Managing the Flow
A.S.A.P. Marketing and Channel Alliance Conference
June 21-22, 2004
Dallas, TX
http://www.strategic-alliances.org/events/mktchannelcongspr04/mktconfdallas04.htm
Graham Bird, The Open Group’s Vice President of Marketing,
will address setting up consortia and alliance networks on
June 22 at 9:30 am
OMG Technical Meeting
June 21-25, 2004
Orlando, FL
Digital Identity Management Summit
2004
July 12-15, 2004
Marriott Regent's Park, London, UK
http://www.iir-conferences.com/idman
The Open Group’s Dr. Chris Harding will speak on effective
directory architectures and standards for enterprise identity
management on July 13 at 3:20 pm
OMG Real-Time & Embedded Systems
Workshop
July 12-15, 2004
Washington, DC
http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/realtime2004/
Final Thoughts…
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