IN THIS ISSUE

• Convergent Technologies Survey
• London Event
• TOGAF® 9 Certifications over 25,000
• In the Media
• Recent Blogs
• New Members
• Upcoming Events
• Join our Latest Webinars
• Training and Certification Promotion

CONVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES SURVEY

In the lead up to our London conference, we would like to hear your opinions on the convergence of technologies such as mobile, big data, social media and the Internet of things.

Dr Chris Harding, Director of Interoperability at The Open Group and responsible for developing the new Open Platform 3.0™ Forum, will be presenting the findings of this survey as part of his presentation at the London event.

You can access our survey at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/convergent_tech

Surveys must be completed by September 23rd 2013.

TOGAF® 9 CERTIFICATIONS NOW OVER 25,000

Last Wednesday represented a significant milestone for The Open Group’s TOGAF® 9 certification program.

In case you hadn’t already seen it on our homepage, Twitter, or LinkedIn,  the number of TOGAF® 9 certified individuals has now surpassed the 25,000 mark, an increase of nearly 8,500 new certifications in the equivalent twelve month period!

For further information visit our TOGAF 9 blog post

IN THE MEDIA

RECENT BLOGS 

Future Technologies
(Dave Lounsbury, The Open Group)

Variety, Black Swans and Platform 3.0
(Stuart Boardman, KPN)

Gaining Dependability Across All Business Activities Requires Standard of Standards to Tame Dynamic Complexity, Says The Open Group CEO
(Allen Brown, The Open Group)

UPCOMING EVENTS

San Jose, Costa Rica - Nov 11-12, 2013

JOIN OUR LATEST WEBINARS

Our webinar program is extremely popular and there are a number of webinars scheduled for the end of September and early October.

To register for these events or to get a full list of archived webinars visit the Webinar Schedule

Upcoming webinars include:

Business Transformation and Enterprise Architecture
Date: 19 September, 2013 @ 15.00 (BST)
Speakers: Jason Uppal (QRS)

Discovering Business Architecture
Date: 24 September, 2013 @ 13.00 (BST)
Speakers: Craig Martin (Enterprise Architecture)

Best Practices for the Effective Implementation of an EA Capability
Date: 26 September, 2013 @ 17.00 (BST)
Speakers: Sven van Dijk (Consultant and trainer BiZZdesign North America)

Leading Business Disruption Strategy with EA
Date: 10 October, 2013 @ 13.00 (BST)
Speakers: Hugh Evans (Enterprise Architecture)

London Conference Oct 21-24
Early Bird Registration Ends
on September 13th

#ogLON

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 Business Transformation.

PLENARY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

• Andy Mulholland, Former Global CTO, Capgemini
• Judith Jones, CEO, Architecting the Enterprise
• Andrew Tucker, Head of IT Strategy & Architecture, DWP, UK Government
• Dr. Peter Sudbury, Healthcare Specialist, HP Enterprise Servcies

>View the Program for The Open Group Conference in London, 21-24 Oct, 2013

>Explore Exhibition & Sponsorship Opportunities

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NEW MEMBERS

The Open Group would like to welcome the following new members last month:

• Axiomatics, Sweden
• Exelis, Inc, US
• IDRBT, India
• Global Knowledge Network Training Ltd, UK
• Sinag Software Solutions, Philippines
• Fairchild Controls, US
• Cobham Aerospace Communications, US
• Hoople Ltd, UK
• PCi Tec, US

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROMOTION IN LONDON

The Open Group is giving delegates at our London conference  the opportunity to combine the three day conference with some additional training events on Thursday 24 Ocotober and Friday 25 October.

• TOGAF® 9 Foundation
• ArchiMate® 2.0 Certification
• Discovering Business Architecture

This promotion gives non-member attendees a conference rate of £710 and a training rate of £985 for the 2 day TOGAF® Foundation course. The courses will also include a relevant free test voucher worth £208. The combined 5 day conference and training promotion price is £1695.

>More information