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Issue 4, 2005
In This Issue:
FEATURE
NEWS
CONFERENCES
EVENTS
THE WEB
OTHER
What's
in a Name?
by
Dr. Chris Harding, The Open Group
Have you ever tried to sign up for a web service, and
found that the username you picked was already taken? As
well as your second, third, and fourth choice? And did this
make you pick a new identifier, different from any other
one that you have used before? And could you, six months
later, remember it?
The difficulty of assigning meaningful identifiers is
an annoyance for us as individuals. But for CIOs in major
corporations, it’s a big headache. Identity management
issues can be responsible for 15-20% of large program development
costs. The Yankee Group reckons that the identity management
market is growing at over 7% per year and will reach $3.3
billion by 2008 – revenue for vendors; cost for users.
And some of this cost is simply down to identifier collision
and confusion – it’s real, but unnecessary.
An organization must manage the identities of many people.
Unfortunately, each of these people generally ends up with
multiple identifiers, because different departments work
in different ways, different products use different formats,
and different managers make different choices at different
times.
The traditional solution was to assign everyone an employee
number. But with the rise of the boundaryless organization,
and with the need to manage identities of people not only
within the organization, but also of people associated
with customers, suppliers, and other business partners,
this solution does not suffice. And today’s frequent
mergers and acquisitions introduce further complexities,
making employee numbers potentially as confused as names.
A more modern approach, commonly used for web services,
is to identify people by their e-mail addresses. Unfortunately,
these are unstable, and change quite often, as people change
Internet service providers, or corporations reorganize
their mail domains. Despite that, companies need to be
able to keep track of their employees’ activities.
For example it is critical to be able to document decisions
on a large – often multi-million dollar - engineering
contract. Companies need to ensure greater stability, or
even permanence, of identities.
The difficulties are compounded by the way that software
products identify their users. They do not have meaningful,
human-friendly identifiers; they have systemic identifiers – strings
of letters and numbers that operating systems assign that
are convenient for machine processing but have no other
meaning. Unfortunately, a user generally ends up with a
different identifier on each system and, when a real person
needs to be identified, perhaps in the case of a security
breach, or when responsibility for a transaction is in
question, it can be downright impossible to follow the
trail.
Must we accept this situation? Not according to Jim Hosmer,
principal architect for enterprise information systems
at Lockheed Martin Corporation. Faced with the management
of identities in a decentralized conglomerate with 130,000
employees and 65,000 trading partners, he has a deep understanding
of the problem. He sees the solution as a single standard
for systemic identifiers that will be globally unique,
stable, and persistent through organizational changes.
It will not replace all existing identifiers, but will
provide a common core identifier to which all other identifiers
can be mapped. As a single fixed point, it will keep the
confusion of multiple, changing, names under control.
Not everyone shares Hosmer’s optimism that the problem
can be solved, and the reasons for this are as much political
as technical. To achieve its goal, the common standard
must be widely adopted by product suppliers. They see the
cost of implementation, and the difficulty of success,
and are less than enthusiastic. They point out, for example,
that other products have tried to implement a stable and
persistent presence, but this proved impractical.
Nevertheless, there is a growing need to address the problem.
It is becoming more serious, and more costly, as organizations
and systems become more complex. Also, the scope is broadening.
As computers and software become more ‘intelligent’,
and become actors themselves, it is increasingly important
to be able to identify them when they play a role in transactions.
Justin Taylor, chief strategist for digital identity at
Novell, speaks of the need to identify silicon-based, as
well as carbon-based, life forms: services, devices, applications,
and media, as well as people.
There is pressure from users for action. Three consortia – the
Distributed Management Task Force, the Network Applications
Consortium, and The Open Group - have approached the core
identifier problem from different angles. Now, driven by
their customer members, they are working together to resolve
it.
The solution may not be difficult or technically complex.
Richard Saul Wurman, who coined the term “information
architecture”, once remarked that history teaches
us that people will struggle with the obvious. It was something
like 26 years after the first Gutenberg Bible that somebody
invented page numbers – the key to indexing and retrieving
information from books. We have become more clever and
sophisticated since then, but not necessarily better at
finding the simple and straightforward approach.
In January, at The Open Group conference on Architecting
Identity Management, Jim Hosmer issued a challenge: to
produce an acceptable open standard for core systemic identifiers
by the end of 2005. If customers and vendors work together,
that might just be possible, and, given the political difficulties,
it would be a major achievement. But when it does happen,
there is unlikely to be a major fanfare of publicity, even
though it will simplify systems management, improve security,
and reduce costs. Like page numbering, it will be one of
those things that seem so obvious once they are there that
no-one can imagine life without them.
For
more information, please contact Dr. Chris Harding
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The Open Group in the Media
The Open Group in the press:
- May 23, 2005 - Telephony online: A
hitchhiker's guide to service levels
- May 18, 2005 - EmbeddedTouch.com: High-Integrity
Java Applications Project
- May
5, 2005 – Hotel-online.com: HTNG
Draws 160+ Attendees to First Annual
Conference
- May
4, 2005 – Computing: Firms
call for action on wireless security
- May 4, 2005 - Computing: Users
to push for encryption standards
- May 4, 2005 - Hospitality Upgrade: HTNG
Draws 160+ Attendees to First Annual
Conference
- May
3, 2005 - Computer Weekly: Outsourcing
demands more open approach to security,
says Jericho
- May 1, 2005 – ebizQ: Supporting
Collaborative Spaces
- April 27, 2005 - Professional Ireland Newsletter: ICS
teams with The Open Group on interoperability initiatives
- April 24, 2005 - ebizQ: Is
SOA a Fad or Silver Bullet?
- April 19, 2005 - Computer Weekly: More
than lip service
- April 18,
2005 – XOrg (release): X
Window System Test Suite Contributed by ApTest and The Open Group to The X.Org
Foundation
Press Releases:
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Certification News
TOGAF Certification News
The total number of TOGAF 8 Certified Professionals reached
315.
Current status of TOGAF Certified products, individuals,
services, and tool support:
- TOGAF 7 Certified - 28 Registered
Individuals
- TOGAF 8 Certified - 315 Registered Individuals
The full register is online at: http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/cert/cert_archlist.tpl
- TOGAF 7 Training - 2 Registered Products from 1 Company
- TOGAF 7 Professional Services - 4 Registered Services
from 4 Companies
- TOGAF 8 Training - 4 Registered Products from 2 Companies
- TOGAF 8 Professional Services - 5 Registered Services
from 5 Companies
- TOGAF 8 Tool Support - 3 Registered Products from
3 Companies
The full register is online at: http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/cert/cert_prodlist.tpl
LSB Certification News
We
are pleased to announce that:
- Linpus Technologies, Inc has registered Linpus 9.3 as conforming to the LSB Runtime
Environment for IA32 version 2.0 product standard
To see the Conformance Statement please refer to the latest
official list of LSB registered products at: 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/
SIF Certification News
We are pleased
to announce that the following products have been registered:
- Century Consultants - Star_Base
3 and above with ZIAgent 3.2 and above
- Central Access Corporation - SAM6i 1.0 with ActiveSIF_Agent
0.5
- aal - eSIS 7.0 and above with eSIS Express SIF Agent
1.x
- Broome-Tioga BOCES - ClearTrack 200 Complete 1.6x
and above with ClearTrack 200 SIF Agent 1.x
- 4GL School Solutions, Inc. - ENCORE! 6.6 or higher
with ENCORE! SIF Agent
- US Netcom - USNCC SIF Interface 1.0
as conforming
to the SIF-enabled Application Product Standard 1.5
To view all current SIF certifications and Conformance
Statements, please see the SIF Certification Register at http://www.opengroup.org/sif/cert/register.html
For more information on the SIF certification, please refer
to: http://www.opengroup.org/sif/cert
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The
Open Group establishes a new Forum – UDEF Forum
The Open Group is setting up a new Forum of The Open
Group, to be known as the UDEF Forum, to focus on development
of a Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) and implementing
a registry for it. The Forum members will work to establish
the UDEF as the universally used classification system for
data elements. Their activities will include defining the requirements,
identifying business models and/or sources of funding to facilitate
the development and ongoing costs of the registry, maintaining
the UDEF as an open standard, advocating and promoting it,
putting in place technical architecture to support it, and
setting up educational programs to train information professional
in its use.
The role of the UDEF Forum will be to:
- Be the executive decision-making body for the
activities required to establish and promote the UDEF;
- Identify sources of funds for those activities,
and advise The Open Group on their application; and
- Where appropriate, carry out some of those activities.
What is UDEF?
Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF), which was developed
by the US CALS ISG in the late 1980s and early 1990s, represents
is a small but potentially crucial aspect of information
management: simplification of information management through
consistent classification and assignment of a structured
indexing identifier to the names (metadata) of data.
The concept is best illustrated by an example:
“Purchase Order Number” in a government invoice
is a commonly-encountered data element. It has a UDEF description
of Purchase.Order.DOCUMENT_Government.Assigned.IDENTIFIER
and UDEF identifier d.t.2_13.35.8. UDEF descriptions and
identifiers are assigned methodically and held in a Registry.
The value of doing this is that it eases the process of
translating between different data description standards.
Large companies often develop their own taxonomies and ontologies
for the data that concerns them. But when they exchange information
with their business partners, this information is generally
described in ways other than their own. It may be described
using a business partner’s data description method,
or using one of a number of different data description standards
such as RosettaNet or Open Applications Group Integration
Specification (OAGIS). For example, the Purchase Order Number
mentioned above is the OAGIS data element //Invoice/Header/DocumentReferences/PurchaseOrderDocumentReference/DocumentIds/DocumentId/Id.
There may also be a need to translate information descriptions
used by different departments within a single company. Making
these translations is a messy and costly business. Having
a simple, clear, and unambiguous standard classification
removes confusion and cuts cost.
The availability of mappings between the UDEF and standards
such as OAGIS will provide additional assistance to users,
and will help cut costs further. Such mappings could be made
available through the Registry or through repositories associated
with it.
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site
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Becoming
accredited within The Open Group's IT Architect Certification
Program
With the industry demand for highly qualified and
experienced IT architects exploding, there is a growing
need to establish a common industry-wide baseline for skills
and expertise. Although there are number of companies that
currently certify their staff as IT Architects, a common,
industry-wide assessment with an independent assurance
of competence is missing. This gap is now being closed
with the upcoming independent accreditation provided by
The Open Group.
Accreditation is a familiar term from higher education where
it provides a review of the quality of higher education institutions
and programs, and gives confidence to the public that the
accredited programs meet quality standards. Similarly to
higher education, the IT Architecture Certification Program
accreditation provides verification that the accredited company
or organization is managing their certification program according
to the criteria established by the program. It can be attained
by an organization whose internal certification or staff
development programs have been assessed by The Open Group,
and met the accreditation requirements.
There are a number of benefits for the companies to have
their programs accredited. Using best practices, accredited
programs will gain credibility, and get a globally accepted
yardstick to measure skills and experience of their staff – a
yardstick which their customers can trust, and which means
the same every time. Organizations will be able to demonstrate
to their customers and partners that they employ qualified
individuals to lead their critical programs, and will be
able to verify their status in The Open Group certification
register. From a more global point of view, a recognized
certification standard for an organization’s employees
and help ensure further development and recognition of the
IT architecture profession, and it will become a comparable
cross industry benchmark.
So how does an organization become accredited? The accreditation
process is straightforward. Any organization with IT architect
certification or professional development program for certifying
their own staff or contractors is eligible for assessment
and may submit an application (as defined in the program’s
Accreditation Policy). The applications are the assessed
by The Open Group’s assessor. If the conformance requirements
are met, the organization is accredited and listed in the
register of accredited programs.
The process of accreditation was established to ensure a
measure of uniformity for the process and requirements for
managing an IT Architect certification program. The accreditation
framework is intended to be flexible and provides for additional
industry, cultural and organizational extensions to the base
certification requirements. As a result confidential company
methods remain confidential and secret.
Once an organization is accredited it may submit batches
of IT architects for certification, and to manage its employee
records within the Directory of Certified Architects.
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Upcoming
IT Architecture Certification program – call for
endorsements
In July 2005, the IT Architecture Certification
Program is scheduled to launch at The Open Group’s
Architecture Practitioners Conference in New York: http://www.opengroup.org/new-york2005/
The program will establish an industry-wide standard for
IT architects’ skill set and expertise, and create
a foundation for trust between suppliers and customers. The
Open Group will act as the certification authority. The program
will provide accreditation of third-party IT architect certification
programs as well as offer direct certification of individuals.
For more details: http://www.opengroup.org/certification/itac-home.html
We want to make the launch a great success and would like
to invite you to help and send us your statements of support.
Make your voice be heard!
Please email us at: memnews-feedback@opengroup.org
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TOGAF
abstract published in a Dutch textbook
In its recent publication “De informtievoorzieningsarchitectuur
als scharnier; Van strategie naar informatievoorziening” (Information
Processing Architecture as a Pivot; From Strategy to Information
Processing) Dutch publisher Academic
Service featured a detailed abstract of TOGAF as one
of the few freely available architecture development methods.
The book is in Dutch and intended to be used in higher education.
The book’s
ISBN is 90 395 2336 3.
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TOGAF
Training
Demand for a “standard” set of training
materials has been evident for some time. Organizations who
wish to provide training to architects seeking TOGAF certification
have asked for materials that are ready and packaged, rather
than each having to create their own materials from scratch.
This can be an onerous task, as the four-day training required
brings with it a considerable development burden. For example,
the early planning indication is that there will be over
450 slides, and TOGAF 8 itself has over 130 detailed graphics.
All of these will be professionally packed into a complete
class by an independent, experienced training developer for
The Open Group.
We expect that this courseware will be available by August,
and this is expected to be the first of a series of training
materials and courseware. As part of the package, The Open
Group will provide marketing support, promotion resources
and templates – enabling an organization to quickly
and effectively train their own architects or to become a
certified TOGAF trainer. For more details contact Paul Hickey
email
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Survey
on the state of boundarylessness – call for input
The key catalyst that organizations can use to make
progress towards the vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™ is
enterprise architecture. Until recently, the concept of an
enterprise IT architecture was a vision shared by very few
organizations. Today, the concept of boundarylessness is becoming
universally accepted as a desired state, and many companies
have achieved it among their people only to find that the stovepipes
are even stronger in the IT systems.
In an effort to continue the push for the global recognition
of the our vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™,
in Q4 2005 we plan to conduct a survey on the state of boundarylessness.
We would like our members’ input. Share your thoughts
and let us know your thoughts and ideas.
feedback
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Telephony
Online features The Fourth Volume of SLA Management Handbook
The Fourth Volume of SLA Management Handbook was
featured in Telephony Online. The Open Group wrote it to
add an enterprise point of view to the SLA requirements described
in previous three volumes, which were written by the TeleManagement
Forum.
Telephony describes and comments on the fourth volume,
quotes Martin Kirk, Director of Enterprise Management Forum
and Quality of Service Task Force on SLAs, and emphasizes
that the fourth and final edition gives the service provider
the tools to provide a true end-to-end SLA.
Read the article: http://telephonyonline.com/regulatory/news/telecom_hitchhikers_guide_service/
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The
Irish Computer Society teams with The Open Group on interoperability
initiatives
The Irish Computer Society and The Open Group have
announced two new initiatives designed to promote standards
in the practice of IT architecture in Ireland and to provide
enhanced access to global progress on interoperability and
open standards. The former will involve the licensing of
The Open Group's Architectural Framework Training Programme
to the ICS to deliver training and certification at a local
level. The second initiative sees the establishment of "The
Open Group Network" for those with a special interest
in IT architecture, open standards and interoperability.
This will meet on a quarterly basis to share information
about Open Group activities worldwide. The Open Group is
a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium which
promotes access to integrated information. The Irish Computer
Society was founded in 1967 as a not-for-profit organisation
to act as an independent representative voice for the ICT
industry in this country.
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The
IT Architecture Practitioners Conference Europe 2005 – A
great success!
Dublin, April 25-27, 2005
Dublin conference, our most popular
European event, with over 300 attendees
from 25 countries, addressed some
of the hottest topics in enterprise
architecture - both from strategic
and implementation points of view.
At the forefront of discussions were
the emerging profession of IT architecture,
IT architecture methods, and the upcoming
skills-based certification program
for IT architects.
The conference was opened by Tom
Kitt, T.D., Minister of State, Department
of the Taoiseach, Repubic of Ireland,
with special responsibility for the
Information Society.
Allen Brown, President and CEO of
The Open Group, spoke about IT architecture
emerging as a profession, discussed
its role, and emphasized that IT
architecture and Boundaryless Information
Flow™ go hand in hand: “IT
architecture is critical to realizing
the vision of Boundaryless Information
Flow™.”
Len Fehskens of the Worldwide Architecture
Profession Office, HP Services, shared
his thoughts on what IT architecture
is as a discipline and clarified the
difference between architecture and
design. He emphasized that architecture
includes not only technology but also
people and processes, and that it
should be viewed as an explicit bridge
between a business need and its IT
solution.
A practitioner’s perspective
on The Open Group’s IT Architect
Certification Program, which is going
to launch in July at The Open Group’s
Architecture Practitioners Conference
in New York was presented by Andras
Szakal, Distinguished Engineer and
Chief Architect, IBM Federal Software
Group. He gave an overview of the
program, the certification process,
and the value proposition, and invited
members to provide input and feedback
on the proposed program. Szakal is
a Senior Certified Software IT Architect
within the IBM IT Architect Certification
Program.
Michael Sylvia, Distinguished Engineer
and IT Architect Profession Executive
of IBM, shared his enthusiasm for
the new program: “The Open Group’s
IT Architect Certification Program,
which will set a skill and experience-based
standard for all practitioners, is
a sign of the maturation of the industry.
IBM is pleased to support it and is
an active participant in its development.”
Tim Murfet, Head of Global Architecture & Core
Technology - Europe, Accenture UK,
spoke about the Accenture experience
related to key challenges in an enterprise
architecture practice, and discussed
development of Accenture architects,
where the key focus is on a method.
Murfet praised The Open Group’s
TOGAF methodology, which is similar
to the Accenture approach.
Randolph Hite, Director of IT Architecture & Systems
Issues, US Government Accountability
Office, who spoke about the state
of enterprise architecture maturity
in the US Federal Government, also
emphasized the importance of using
an architecture development method.
According to Hite, lots of agencies
have a framework and tools but lack
a method, and TOGAF could be very
relevant for them.
Other speakers at the conference
included Colm Butler, Principal Officer
of the Information Society Policy
Unit at the Department of the Taoiseach,
Republic of Ireland; Juergen Bonn,
Member of the Board, alfabet, Germany;
Eric Boulay, CEO, Arismore, France;
David Sprott, Founder and CEO, CBDI
Forum, Ireland; Frank Chatonda,VP
and Senior Architect, Citibank Technology
Solution Group, USA; Rawls Whittlesey,
Director, Enterprise Architecture,
Delta Technology, USA; Uwe Weber,
Head of Group Architecture Strategy,
Detecon International GmbH, Germany;
Eugen Oetringer, EDS, Netherlands;
Theo Vassiliadis, Head of Interoperability
Architecture & Methods, European
Commission; Michiel Malotaux, VP Consulting & Enterprise
Architect, Gartner Netherlands BV;
Walter Stahlecker, Director of Industry
Initiatives, Hewlett-Packard Company,
Jeff Wolfers, Head of IT Strategy & Architecture,
HSBC Holdings; Enrique Castro-Leon,
Enterprise Architect and Strategist,
Intel Solution Services, USA; Brian
O'Byrne, Founder and CTO, Statesoft,
Ireland; Jonathan Gregory, Enterprise
Architect, Sun Microsystems, UK; Peter
Hungerford, Senior Syngenta Fellow,
Syngenta; Mark O’Neill, CEO,
Vordel, Ireland; Stan Locke, Managing
Director and COO of Zachman Framework
Associates, Canada, among others.
Missed it? It is not too late to catch
up on the key issues from the Proceedings here
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Join
Us for the IT Architecture Practitioners Conference 2005 –
New
York, The Westin New York at Times Square, July 18-20,
2005
In parallel with Member meetings, July 18-22, 2005
Join us in New York this coming July for presentations
on the practice and profession of enterprise architecture,
highly practical workshops on the relationships of enterprise
architecture to technology, to business transformation, and
to ROI, and a review of in-depth case studies. Study the
latest trends in enterprise architecture development, its
integration and necessary infrastructure support, and learn
hands-on how to set up and run an Enterprise Architecture
practice, and how to architect Boundaryless Information Flow™.
Plenary Speakers include Allen Brown, CEO, The Open Group;
Mark Maier, The Aerospace Corporation; Len Fehskens, HP;
Neil Levette, Chief Enterprise Architect, Treasury Board
of Canada Secretariat; Terence Blevins, The MITRE Corporation;
Michael Sylvia, IBM; Dave Kuttler VP, Information Architecture,
Johnson & Johnson; Shaw-Jen Chang, Senior Director, Enterprise
Architecture, Cisco Systems; Andras Szakal, IBM; James DeRaeve,
Vice President, Certification, The Open Group; Walter Stahlecker,
Director of Industry Initiatives, Hewlett-Packard Co.
For full program including the parallel streams: http://www.opengroup.org/new-york2005/
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Look ahead:
Service
Oriented Architectures Conference – Houston, TX, October
17-18, 2005
In
parallel with Member meetings, October 17-21, 2005
Allowing processes to interconnect easily in a flexible
infrastructure based on business needs, the Service Oriented
Architectures (SOA) approach is ideally suited to a modern
dynamic enterprise. Properly managed and secured SOA can
provide the reliability and interoperability that are the
critical enablers of Boundaryless Information Flow™.
Learn about the latest trends and advances, and how implementing
SOA can help your company meet its goals, boost business
effectiveness, and increase return on investment at each
point of an agile IT infrastructure.
With an extensive track record in organizing premier industry
events, The Open Group has put together an impressive lineup
of practitioners, thought leaders and industry experts to
share their perspectives, insights and experience in addressing
one of today’s key IT architecture design approaches.
Who should attend:
CIOs, IT architects, IT strategists, senior IT managers,
analysts, and industry experts
Learn about:
- What the value proposition for SOA is, and how
to communicate it within an organization
- When a simple SOA project is sufficient, and when
it's not
- What the critical components are, if they are mature,
and how to work with them
- Which aspects of SOA should be implemented first and
which later, and how to phase an SOA project so that each
component has a positive ROI
- How to identify problems and challenges that are appropriate
for service-oriented solutions
- How to implement for integration of SOA
- How to implement resource management
- What the status and direction of standards is
- How to measure your SOA, and what are the key performance
indicators
Get the information on what works and what doesn’t,
network with your peers, and walk away with practical solutions.
Get ideas on how to use SOA in building your enterprise architecture
and making the most of your IT budget. The Open Group’s
SOA conference has been designed to meet the needs of today’s
busy IT professionals with practical guidance
and solutions you can use.
Read more at http://www.opengroup.org/houston2005/
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Featured
Event: Digital Identity Management
July, 11 – 14, 2005,
Hilton Olympia, London, UK
Over three days we will examine the key trends, threats
and opportunities in digital identity management today, after
a full- day workshop on how to develop, implement and administer
a secure, effective digital identity management strategy.
For more information please visit http://www.iir-conferences.com/idman
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Industry Events Calendar
Events of The Open
Group
IT Architecture Practitioners Conference 2005
July 18-20, 2005
New York, USA
(in parallel with The Open Group Member Meetings, July 18-22,
2005)
http://www.opengroup.org/new-york2005/
Service Oriented Architectures Conference
October 17-18, 2005
Semantic Interoperability Conference
October 19-20, 2005
Houston, TX
(in parallel with The Open Group Member Meetings, October
17-21, 2005)
http://www.opengroup.org/houston2005/
Other Industry Events
Catalyst North America 2005
July 13-15, 2005
Manchester Grand Hyatt
San Diego, CA
https://www.burtongroup.com/catalyst/
Digital Identity Management
July 11-14, 2005
Hilton Olympia, London, UK
http://opengroup.org/events/DIM-summit2005.htm
EDOC 2005
September 19-23, 2005
Enschede, The Netherlands
http://www.edocconference.org/
TeleManagement
November 7-10, 2005
Adams Mark Convention Center, Dallas, TX
http://www.tmforum.org/browse.asp?catID=734&sNode=734&Exp=Y
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Top Downloads from the Web
Top
10 publications downloads in April 2005
- The Single UNIX Specification, Version 3
- TOGAF, Version 8 'Enterprise Edition'
- Business Executive’s Guide to IT Architecture
- X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication
- Distributed TP: The XA Specification
- Security Design Patterns
- The Open Group IT Architect Certification Program
- Identity Management white paper
- DCE 1.1: Remote Procedure Call
- Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA) Version 2, with
corrigenda
Top 10 page views in March 2005
- The Open Group home page
- The Base Specifications, Issue 6
- Bookstore main page
- Open Motif main page
- Architecture Forum main page
- The Single UNIX® Specification: Keyword search
page
- TOGAF 8 welcome page
- Dublin 2005 conference program page
- Testing downloads page
- Open Motif downloads page
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Final Thoughts...
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