IN THIS ISSUE

• Philadelphia Conference
• New Guides
• Recent Blogs
• New Members
• In the Media
• TOGAF® 9 Promotion
• New Publications
• Training and Certification Promotion
• Join our Latest Webinar

NEW GUIDES PUBLISHED

Cloud Computing Portability and Interoperability

The Guide explains the major portability and interoperability issues that arise when cloud computing is used. It makes recommendations to customers on how best to achieve portability and interoperability when working with current cloud products and services, and it makes recommendations to suppliers and standards bodies on how standards and best practice should evolve to enable greater portability and interoperability in future.

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The Open CA Program: Guidance to Candidates

This document provides simple advice, intended for architects preparing Open CA Certification Packages or those reviewing such Packages before submission to The Open Group, on what it means to “follow the instructions”. This document is based on the experience of working within The Open Group to develop the Open CA program, sitting on Open CA Certification Boards, and reviewing Certification Packages prior to submission to The Open Group, as well as candidates’ experience.

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RECENT BLOGS  

The era of “Internet aware systems and services” – the multiple-data, multi-platform and multi-device and sensors world (Mark Skilton, Capgemini)

IN THE MEDIA

NEW PUBLICATIONS

Visit The Open Group Bookstore for the latest publications and downloads. These include:

• The Value of Certification for Risk Analysts (20 Jun 2013)
  [Webinars]

• Bringing TOGAF® Awareness to a Much Broader Audience, Inside and Outside of the Enterprise (13 Jun 2013)
  [Webinars]

• ArchiMate® 2.0 Translation Glossary: English – French (05 Jun 2013)
  [Technical Standards]

• Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™): Conformance Policy (03 Jun 2013)
  [Certification Program Documentation]

JOIN OUR LATEST WEBINAR

Our webinar program is extremely popular and we have hosted 11 webinars so far this year. To register for future events or to get a full list of archived webinars visit the Webinar Schedule

Upcoming webinar:

Join us on Thursday, July 25 at 11:00 a.m. EDT/4:00 p.m. BST for our next webinar by Martin Owen (CEO, Corso) entitled:

Business and IT Roadmapping
using TOGAF® & ArchiMate®

Philadelphia Conference July 15-18

At this event you will discover how organizational change is being addressed by industry experts in aligning business needs with information technology, and increasing business value from EA.

You will gain the tools and knowledge you need to introduce meaningful Enterprise Transformation.

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

• Eric Sweden, NASCIO Program Director EA &
  Governance

• Michael Cavaretta, Ph.D., Technical Leader,
  Predictive Analytics/Data Mining Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company

• David Nash MD, MBA, Dean of Jefferson School of Population Health

>View the Program for The Open Group Conference in Philadelphia, 15-18 July, 2013

>Explore Exhibition & Sponsorship Opportunities

Event Sponsors

NEW MEMBERS

The Open Group would like to welcome the following new members in May:

• Data Security Council of India, India

• University of Reading, UK

• ATSI S.A., Poland

• Kutta Technologies Inc, US

TOGAF® 9 SELF STUDY & EXAM VOUCHER PROMOTION - INDIA

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROMOTION IN PHILADELPHIA

The Open Group is giving delegates at our conference in Philadelphia the opportunity to combine the three day conference with some additional training events on Thursday 18 July and Friday 19 July.

• FAIR Risk Analyst
• TOGAF® 9 Foundation
• ArchiMate® 2.0 Certification

This promotion gives non-member attendees a conference rate of $980 and a training rate of $1000 for the 2 day TOGAF® Foundation course.

The courses will also include a relevant free test voucher worth $320. The combined 5 day conference and training promotion price is $1980.

>More information