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Capgemini
and NEC Join Other Industry Leaders as Platinum Members of The Open Group
Capgemini
and NEC joined other industry leaders, IBM, HP, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Sun
Microsystems, and became Platinum Members of The Open Group.
As Platinum Members, NEC and Capgemini joined The Open Group’s
Governing Board and will help direct the overall strategy and vision
of the organization. In addition to their commitment as new leaders of
the organization, NEC and Capgemini will help drive the vision of Boundaryless
Information Flow™. Both companies bring to The Open Group the expertise
of industry leaders in innovation and enterprise integration.
Capgemini will contribute immediately to The Open Group as co-supporter
of The Open Group’s new IT Architect Certification program (www.opengroup.org/itac).
NEC, an active member of the Architecture Forum, has contributed to defining
TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) and will contribute to
popularize TOGAF in Japan. Read more
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IT
Architect Certification – Open for Business!
The Open Group’s new global certification program for IT Architects
is now accepting applications for certification. The first Certification
Board will be held shortly, and candidates are invited to submit their
application now at: www.opengroup.org/itac/.
The Open Group, supported by industry leaders including IBM, Hewlett
Packard, and Capgemini, announced the launch of the program at its July
conference. Developed in response to the increasing demand for experienced
IT architects, the program defines a set of worldwide standards for measuring
the skills and experience of IT architects and for the operation of IT
architecture practices within enterprises. Read the full announcement
[http://www.opengroup.org/comm/press/19jul05-itac.htm]
Would you like to be kept informed of new developments, receive news
and announcements, and gain access to valuable information on our IT
Architecture community web? Register your interest and join our
mailing list.
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IT
Architecture comes of age
by
Dr. Chris Harding, The Open Group
Today’s enterprise needs coherent and effective IT architecture.
There has been a revolution in business practices leading to the rise of the
boundaryless organization, and the consequent requirement to architect a technical
infrastructure for Boundaryless Information Flow™. According to Meta Group,
technical architecture consistently ranks in the top 5 priorities of Global 2000
companies. But developing a good architecture means employing good architects,
and this is a primary concern for the CIO. The emergence of a true IT architecture
profession will help to address this concern, and there are signs that this is
now beginning to happen.
Good IT architecture has never been so important. As Tom Kitt, Minister of
State with special responsibility for the Information Society in the Republic
of Ireland, puts it, the physical boundaries of business have mostly gone,
and IT brings opportunities for people to work together in innovative ways.
Interoperability is necessary for delivery of customer-centric services, and
this can only be achieved through a common architecture.
The Future Store project of Germany’s Metro Group, the world's fifth-largest
retail chain, provides a good example. Its aim is to create a new kind of retail
environment with innovative customer features such as self-checkout, electronic
shelf labeling, personal shopping assistant, and information terminals, using
modern technology such as wireless networking and RFID. Its development involved
over 50 partners, including product suppliers in technical areas such as software
and RFID, retail goods suppliers, and service providers. It required a cross-organizational
architecture to deliver business value, with low setup costs to accommodate
changes of partners. Ard-Pieter de Man, a Professor at the Eindhoven University
of Technology who has been intimately concerned with the project, remarks that
technology infrastructure is needed to support collaboration, and a good IT
architecture will increase the benefits of an alliance.
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) is the joint second largest
bank in the world, with a staff of 250,000 people- 23,000 of whom are in IT.
HSBC grew by acquisition and had major cost problems delivering and integrating
software across regions due to differences in standards and practices. To solve
these problems, its CIO sponsored a common architecture approach with a core
team of 200 people and at cost of about $25 million.
Architecture is important for governments too. In the US, where the government
spends $65 billion annually on IT, the Clinger-Cohen Act directs all Federal
Agencies to do IT architecture. Based on the Act, the US CIO Council launched
a number of enterprise architecture initiatives, which, according to Randolph
Hite, Director of IT Architecture and Systems Issues of the Government Accountability
Office, are having a significant impact on the increasing maturity of enterprise
architecture in the Agencies.
The European Commission (EC), which has about 25,000 staff, three working languages,
and over 1000 IT systems supported by teams at varying levels of IT maturity
and professional practice, embraces an architectural approach too. Theo Vassiliadis,
Head of Unit in the Directorate General for Informatics of the EC, says that
the Commission uses enterprise architecture as a governance tool that enables
strategy, portfolio management, and methodology to be applied across these
teams based on standards.
IT architecture is the key to successful systems development in both business
and government, and the IT architect works, not as a lone genius but as a member
of a team with common standards and practices. But how can the CIO be sure
of finding the right people and molding them into a disciplined and effective
enterprise team?
IT is a modern phenomenon. But there is a concept that has been established
for centuries in other areas such as medicine and the law that have similar
needs to set common standards for the performance of highly qualified and capable
people – the concept of a profession. A hospital hiring physicians will
look at their professional qualifications, which reflect not only their medical
knowledge but also their experience and their standing amongst their professional
peers.
This concept is starting to be applied in the field of IT. There are already
some professional IT architect development programs. IBM currently has 8000
IT architects worldwide, 75% of whom are in IBM Global Services, and most of
whom are involved in customer-facing activities; it develops them through a
professional program using a roadmap with skills capability checkpoints. Accenture
has a large number of architects on its staff, and also develops architects
and architecture practices for clients. It has an IT architecture training
program that includes 73 architecture courses, such as “Security for
Web Services”. A person might expect to reach the level of architect
after five to six years, application architect after about nine years, and
enterprise architect after about 12 years. These career development times are
regarded as typical by many in the industry.
But separate corporate programs are not the answer. A CIO forming a team will
look not for “IBM architects” or “Accenture architects”,
but for IT architects whose skills and capabilities can be compared within
a common professional framework. According to Stan Locke, Managing Director
of the Zachman Framework Associates, an engineered approach to establishing
the profession is needed - we should practice what we preach to the enterprise.
Allen Brown, CEO of The Open Group, says that four things are needed for IT
architecture to become a profession: a high standard of expertise, a recognized
standard of best practice, skills that are transferable between enterprises,
and a place for the practitioners to come together.
There are professional associations, such as the Data Management Association
(DAMA), where IT practitioners can come together. And there are a large number
of specialist IT accreditations, perhaps 600-700, but none of these focus on
establishing an industry standard for IT architects. According to Meta Group’s
Philip Allega, continuing shortages of experienced individuals, coupled with
a rise in global architecture team development, has resulted in increased demand
for a competent third-party evaluation body that can certify both knowledge
and experience levels for potential enterprise architects. This gap is now
being bridged by The Open Group, with its IT Architect Certification program.
The new program will set a common standard to which IT architects can conform,
whether working individually or in customer or supply-side practices, while
allowing those practices to retain some individuality. It is supported by major
IT architect practices such as those of HP and IBM, which recognize the need
for an agreed, well-defined, and capable certification program. A professional
framework is starting to appear.
Information Technology may be a young discipline as compared with medicine
and the law, but its growth over the last fifty years has made it of comparable
importance to the well-being and prosperity of people around the globe. The
establishment of a proper professional structure for IT architects is now crucial
for its future development. It will help CIOs in business and in government
to form the teams needed to architect the infrastructure for our boundaryless
world. We are at a point of change, where IT architecture will cease to be
an ill-defined activity, and will become a profession with accepted standards
of competence and conduct. IT architecture is coming of age.
For more information, please contact Dr.
Chris Harding
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Industry
and Media Give Thumbs Up to the new IT Architect Certification program
- According to CertCities’s Greg Neilson,
IT Architect Certifications are taking IT certification to a new professional
level
Neilson
professes his excitement over the new skills- and experience based IT
Architect certification, and its implication for the future IT certification
as a whole. He emphasizes that the IT profession does not yet have the formal
methods to validate skills such as those in the fields of law or accounting,
and that we don’t yet have widely accepted professional bodies in existence.
IT vendors, then, have filled the breach by creating certification programs
on their products that are often tied to educational offerings. Neilson views
the new skills- and experience-based IT Architecture Certification programs
as filling a gap in the industry and taking certification to a new professional
level. Read
the article
- Certification Magazine interviewed
Graham Bird, The Open Group’s
Vice President of Marketing, about the IT Architect Certification program
Recognizing
that the role of IT Architects has been recently a hot topic of discussion,
and that IT architects need standards in skills, tasks and expectations,
Certification Magazine speaks with Graham Bird, The Open Group’s Vice
President of Marketing, about the definition of IT Architect, their role, and
The Open Group’s new skills- and experience-based IT Architect Certification
program. Read
the interview
- SD Times spoke about IT Architect Certification
with Allen Brown, The Open Group’s President and CEO
SD Times’ Editor
David Rubinstein interviewed Allen Brown, The Open Group’s President
and CEO, about the recently launched program. The article emphasizes
that to gain certification, IT architects must demonstrate they have
core foundation skills, and experience in producing IT architectures,
with a number of types of systems and application architectures and hardware
and software platforms. Read
the interview
- What the industry thinks
Read
statements from the industry [ http://www.opengroup.org/itac/endorsements.html]
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The
Open Group in the Media
* The Open Group in the press:
- August 8, 2005 - Certification Magazine: Open
Group Launches IT Architect Cert
- August 1, 2005 – CertCities: Architecture
Certifications Point Toward Future
- July 27, 2005 – NetworkWorld: Through
your eyes: Creating a new paradigm for enterprise security
- July 27, 2005 – NetworkWorld: Security
discontent and software in airplanes
- July 22, 2005 - eg3: New
POSIX Certification Addresses Predictability in Realtime Computing Services
- July 21, 2005- Linux Devices: The
latest news & announcements about Linux based embedded applications
- July 19, 2005 – Bnet: The
Open Group Launches Global Certification Program for IT Architects;
Establishes New Industry Benchmark for IT Architecture Practitioners
- July 19, 2005 - Yahoo Finance: The
Open Group Launches Global Certification Program for IT Architects
- July 19, 2005 - Military & Aerospace Electronics: Objective
Interface Demonstrates New Communications Architecture for Security-Critical
Applications at the Open Group Seminar
- July 19, 2005 - Globe Technology: Open
Group plans to certify IT architects
- July 19, 2005 – LinuxWorld: Objective
Interface Demonstrates New Communications Architecture for Security-Critical
Applications at the Open Group Seminar
- 19 July, 2005 – ExtremeTech: Groups
Team To Promote IPv6
- 19 July, 2005 – TMCnet: The
Open Group Launches Global Certification Program for IT Architects; Establishes
New Industry Benchmark for IT Architecture Practitioners
- 19 July, 2005 – LWNnet: New
POSIX Certification Addresses Predictability for Realtime
- July 19, 2005 - Institute for Information & Communication
Technologies: News-
Architecture Practitioners Conference
- July 19, 2005 - IT World Canada: Open
Group plans to certify IT architects(Also in Computerworld)
- July 19, 2005 - ebizQ: Open
Group's IT Architect Certificate Program 'Opens'
- July 18, 2005 - Light Reading Bodies
Team for IPv6 Work
- July 13, 2005 - Network World Microsoft
betas 'elite' IT architect certification program(Also in Computerworld and ARNnet)
- July 4, 2005 - Network World: Are
firewalls expendable?
- July 3, 2005 - ebizQ: Information
Technology for Government Services
- June 28, 2005 - Computer Weekly: Certificate
to provide yardstick for IT abilities
- June 24, 2005 - Hospitality Upgrade: HTNG
Celebrates Third Anniversary with Major Milestones Reached at HITEC® 2005
- June 21, 2005 -Hotel Online: Hotel
Technology Next Generation (HTNG) Making Significant Progress Towards its Objectives
of Improving Systems Interoperability in the Hospitality Industry
- June 20, 2005 – Primezone: Telelogic
Further Enhances World's Leading Requirements Management Solution
- June 16, 2005 - IT Business Edge: 3
Questions: Semantic Interoperability Defined
- June issue, 2005 - DM Review: Driving
the Evolution to Actionable Architecture
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Press Releases
Certification
News
TOGAF Certification News
The number of TOGAF 8 Certified Professionals now exceeds 480. Two universities
have recently registered their programs as conforming to the TOGAF 8 Training
product standard: the University of Reading, UK, and The National University
of Singapore.
Current status of TOGAF Certified products, individuals, services, and tool
support:
- TOGAF 8 Certified - 487 Registered Individuals
- TOGAF 8 Training - 6 Registered Products from 4 Companies
- TOGAF 8 Professional Services - 6 Registered Services from 6 Companies
- TOGAF 8 Tool Support - 3 Registered Products from 3 Companies
- TOGAF 7 Certified - 17 Registered Individuals
- TOGAF 7 Training - 2 Registered Products from 1 Company
- TOGAF 7 Professional Services - 4 Registered Services from 4 Companies
The full register is available online
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SIF Certification News
We are pleased to announce that the following products have been registered
as conforming to the SIF-enabled Application Product Standard 1.5:
- Renaissance Learning, Inc. - Renaissance Place 3.x
- SunGard Pentamation - FinancePLUS 4.x with SunGard Pentamation SIF Agent
1.5
- Superior School Supplies Inc - Meal Tracker Point of Sale 4.x with Accu-Scan
SIF Agent 1.0
- PowerSchool, a Division of Apple - PowerSchool 4.2.x with PowerSchool
SIF Agent 4.2
- LunchByte Systems Inc. — Nutrikids Point of Sale (POS) 5.X with
Nutrikids SIF Agent 1.X
- Excelsior Software, Inc. - Pinnacle Plus 5.20 with Pinnacle SIF Agent
1.0
- Leader Services - IEPWriter 2.0 with IEPWriter SIF Agent 1.5
- SchoolCenter — SchoolCenter 6.x and Above with SchoolCenter SIF
Agent 1.5
- Superior School Supplies Inc. — Meal Tracker Student Management
Software 4.x with Accu-Scan SIF Agent 1.05
- Computer Power Solutions of Illinois, Ltd. - Visual CASEL 3.1.x with
Visual CASEL Agent for Active Directory-Exchange 2.1.x
To view all current SIF certifications and Conformance Statements, please
see the SIF Certification Register
For more information on the SIF certification, read this.
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UNIX® System Certification News
We are pleased to announce that Sun Microsystems has registered Solaris 10
on their SPARC and X86 platforms as conforming to the UNIX 03 Product Standard:
- Solaris 10 Operating System - on 32-bit & 64-bit SPARC based systems
- Solaris 10 Operating System - on 32-bit X86 based system
- Solaris 10 Operating System - on 64-bit X86 based system
To view the latest official list of UNIX registered products, please see
the Register.
For more information on UNIX 03, please read
this.
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TOGAF
to the Rescue: Accommodating Rapidly Evolving Technologies in your IT Architecture – by
William A. Estrem, PhD, Metaplexity Associates
Bill Estrem, who is
currently Chair of The Open Group Architecture Forum, shares his thoughts
on the importance of agility for today’s organizations.
He emphasizes that an enterprise’s architecture must reflect that agility
in order to deliver demonstrable results contributing to the organization’s
business goals, and advocates the use of TOGAF, as a particularly popular and
effective approach to enterprise architecture. Read
the article.
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IT
Business Edge interviews Chris Harding about Semantic Interoperability
IChris
Harding speaks with IT Business Edge about semantic interoperability, defines
the current problems enterprises are facing, and talks about available standards
and necessary steps. Read
the interview.
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IPv6
Forum & The Open Group To Cooperate On Deploying An Industry-wide IPv6
Product Standard
The IPv6 Forum and The Open Group have announced
a cooperative effort to generate consensus between governments and industry,
and deploy a global industry-wide IPv6 product standard and formal certification
program. The program is designed to accelerate the adoption of IPv6, the “next-generation” Internet
Protocol that offers new capabilities and addresses the fundamental limitations
of the currently used IPv4. Read more.
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HTNG
launches the first branding and certification program for hotel technology,
developed jointly with The Open Group
HTNG has launched their first-ever branding and certification program for
hotel technology, which they developed jointly with The Open Group. The certification
and branding program will provide important benefits to both buyers and sellers
of technology, assuring buyers that a particular technology product will deliver
a minimum level of interoperability with other products, and enabling vendors
to showcase their compliance. Read
more.
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New
POSIX® Certification Addresses Predictability in Realtime Computing Services
The
Open Group and IEEE have introduced a POSIX® certification to aid
predictability in operating system environments that involve realtime services.
The certification is based on the criteria for bounded response times in Application
Profile PSE54, which is part of the IEEE 1003.13™-2003 standard, and
complements the existing certification program for the base POSIX 1003.1™ standard.
The new certification, “PSE54 Multipurpose Realtime 1003.13-2003 System”,
is offered under the POSIX®: Certified by the IEEE and The Open Group Program.
The Open Group has begun accepting registrations for PSE54 certification. Certification
through Jan.18, 2006 will involve a set of interim conformance requirements.
Full conformance certification begins after this date. Once obtained, certification
is renewed annually. Read more.
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Spotlight
on recent publications – IT Architect Certification program documents
The
Open Group is pleased to announce the following new documents that can be downloaded
from The Open Group’s Bookstore:
Certification documents:
White paper
Overview
of IT Architecture Practitioners Conference 2005 in New York
New York, Westin at Times Square, July 18-20, 2005
In parallel with Member
Meetings, July 18-22, 2005
The IT Architecture Practitioners Conference in New York was a great success,
attracting over 300 attendees from 17 different countries. As with our spring
conference in Dublin, Ireland, it became the place to be for IT architects,
CIOs, corporate strategists, and other IT architecture practitioners, who discussed
key trends and hot topics in enterprise architecture - both from strategic
and implementation point of view.
The program included:
- 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
- Study of enterprise architecture development, its integration and necessary
infrastructure support
- Hands-on workshop on how to set up and run an Enterprise Architecture
practice
- Review of in-depth case studies
On the opening day, two important announcements were made:
- Capgemini and NEC joined The Open Group as new platinum members
- The Open Group, supported by industry leaders, including IBM, HP, and
Capgemini, announced that its new IT Architect Certification program is “open for
business”.
The keynote address was given by Russ Daniels, Vice President & CTO,
Software and Adaptive Enterprise, Office of Strategy and Technology, Hewlett-Packard
Company.
For more information and a complete list of speakers see the full
conference program.
Missed it? Check out conference proceedings
summaries.
Full proceedings on CD-ROM are available for purchase from The Open Group’s
bookstore. The CD-ROM contains all of the presentations from the conference
that were made available, together with a detailed description of each presentation,
and biographies of the presenters. This CD-ROM also contains bonus information
and documentation about The Open Group's IT Architect Certification Program.
Get the full conference proceedings.
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Join
us in October 2005 in Houston, TX for the Service Oriented Architectures Conference
and the Semantic Interoperability Conference
October 2005: Join The Open Group in Houston, TX
Service Oriented Architectures
Conference: October 17-18, 2005
Semantic Interoperability Conference: October
19-20, 2005
In parallel with Member Meetings, October 17-21, 2005
We have a number of exciting events lined up for October. Join us to hear
about the latest developments and trends in the areas of Service Oriented Architectures,
get the information on what works and what does not, discuss how to make the
most of your IT budget, share insights and network with your peers, and walk
away with practical solutions. Learn about what’s hot in Semantic Interoperability,
participate in a UDEF workshop, and find out how you can help your company
to reach its goals. Round off your conference week by participating in a Charity
Golf Tournament at The Oaks Course in The Woodlands, to kick off celebrations
of The Open Group’s 10 th anniversary. The proceeds will go to children’s
charities in the Houston area. Sponsorship opportunities are available: you
can sponsor individuals or teams.
Interested? Don’t miss out on the early bird rate, register before
September 9 and save!
Service Oriented Architectures Conference
October 17-18, 2005
Learn about the latest trends and advances in Service Oriented Architectures
(SOA), and how implementing it 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.
Allowing processes to interconnect easily in a flexible infrastructure based
on business needs, the 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™. Driven
by the need for greater business agility, increased IT asset reuse, and reduced
complexity throughout the entire enterprise, companies of all sizes implement
SOA to reap a number of important benefits, including easier resource sharing,
fewer information silos, simpler structure, and a reduced risk of lock-in into
proprietary systems. The advantages of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
are so compelling that 75% of 473 enterprise buyers surveyed by the Yankee
Group plan on investing in SOA technology and staffing within the next year.
Learn about:
- What the value proposition for SOA is, and how to communicate SOA within
an organization
- When a simple SOA project is sufficient, and when it's not
- 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
- Which aspects of SOA should be implemented first and which later
- How to implement for integration of SOA
- How to implement resource management such as CRM, ERP and partner management
- What the status and direction of standards is, including XML, Universal
Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), SOAP, and others
- What the critical components are, if they are mature, and how to work
with them
- 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.
Program:
The conference keynote address will be given by Michael Liebow, Vice President
of Web Services and SOA for IBM’s Global Services.
Sam Ceccola, Chief Federal Architect, BEA will moderate a panel session with
participants from Systinet, AmberPoint, and Tibco. David Archer, President
and CEO of the Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium (POSC), will host a
session presented by POSC members, which will explore the value of SOA in the
context of the E&P Sector of the Energy Industry. Other conference speakers
include Andy Moir from OASIS; Michael Ruiz from BAE Systems; Rakesh Radhakrishnan
from Sun; Paul Patrick from BEA; Mark Forman, Partner at KPMG, and Ron Schmelzer
and Jason Bloomberg of ZapThink.
Semantic Interoperability Conference
October 19-20, 2005
The Internet and the World-Wide Web have solved the basic problems of information
transmission; the next major advance will come from resolving the deeper issues
of semantic interoperability. This problem is well understood throughout the
world of information technology, from commercial enterprises looking for a
new competitive edge, to military organizations looking to gain battlefield
superiority.
The Open Group’s Semantic Interoperability Conference will explore
the requirements and the technology that is emerging to address them. It will
also feature a workshop on the Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) and
its role as a semantic interoperability enabler.
Look
ahead: IT Architecture Practitioners Conference 2006 –
Barcelona, Spain - January 23-25, 2006
In parallel with Member meetings,
January 23-27, 2006
Mark your calendar. The Open Group’s winter conference will focus on
IT Architecture. Join us to learn about some of the hottest topics in enterprise
architecture - both from strategic and implementation points of view.
- Role and Rise of the IT Architect
- The IT architect – the new professional
- What is IT architecture?
- The art of IT architecture
- The business value of the IT architect
- The IT Architecture Profession
- Requirements for Effective IT Architecture Practice
- Setting up and Running an IT Architecture Practice
- IT Architect Certification
- IT Architecture – A Global Perspective
- Other Conference Tracks
- Enterprise architecture integration and infrastructure support
- IT architecture and business transformation
- The business case for IT architecture
- IT architecture case studies
- Enterprise architecture development
- Architecting Boundaryless Information Flow™
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Events
of The Open Group
Service Oriented Architectures Conference
October 17-18, 2005
Houston, TX
(in parallel with The Open Group Member Meetings, October
17-21, 2005)
http://opengroup.org/houston2005/
Semantic Interoperability Conference
October 19-20, 2005
Houston, TX
(in parallel with The Open Group Member Meetings,
October 17-21, 2005)
http://opengroup.org/sic2005/
IT Architecture Practitioners Conference Europe 2006
January 23-25, 2006
Barcelona, Spain
(in parallel with The Open Group Member
Meetings, January 23-27, 2006)
http://www.opengroup.org/events/
Architecting to the Edge
April 24-26, 2006
Washington DC, USA
(in parallel with The Open Group Member
Meetings, April 24-28, 2006)
IT Architecture Practitioners
Conference 2006
July 17-19, 2006
Miami, FL, USA
(in parallel with The Open Group Member
Meetings, July 17-21, 2006)
The Open Group Conference
October 23-25, 2006
Lisbon, Portugal
(in parallel with The Open Group Member
Meetings, October 23-27, 2006)
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Industry
Events
Gartner Application Development Summit
September 12-14, 2005
Dallas, TX
http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/ad7.jsp
To obtain the $200 discount off the standard registration
fee, call 1 (800) 778-1997 and reference code ADOG
Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit
September 14-15,
2005
Dallas, TX
http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/ea3.jsp
To obtain the $200 discount off the standard registration
fee, call 1 (800) 778-1997 and reference code ADOG
North American IPv6 Technology Conference
September 19-22, 2005
San Jose CA
http://www.ipv6conference.com/
To receive 50% discount on registration, enter pass code "opengroupvip" (all
lower case).
EDOC 2005
September 19-23, 2005
Enschede, The Netherlands
http://www.edocconference.org/
VORTEX: Setting the IT Agenda (Network World/IDG Executive
Forums)
October 24-26, 2005
San Francisco, CA
http://www.idgexecforums.com/vortex05/index.html
To register and receive the discounted rate of $1595, go to: www.vortex.net/V5OPG
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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Downloads from the Web
Top 10 publications downloads in
June 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
- The Open Group IT Architect Certification Program
- Distributed TP: The XA Specification
- Security Design Patterns
- Identity Management white paper
- TOGAF, Version 8.1 ‘Enterprise Edition’
- Application
Response Management (ARM) Issue 4.0, V2 - Java Binding
Top 10 publications downloads in July
2005
- The Single UNIX Specification, Version 3
- TOGAF, Version
8 'Enterprise Edition'
- The Open Group IT Architect
Certification Program
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