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Welcome to the Supplier Council Web page. Supplier Council Officers
Governing Board (1 seat):
Tom van Sante (Getronics) was elected as Supplier-Governor for a 3-year period commencing 31st January 2008, replacing Sam Ceccola (CTO, Capgemini North America) who served from 26th July 2006.
Supplier Council:
- Chris Greenslade (CLARS Limited) was elected as Chair for a 2-year period commencing July 26th 2006
- Sam Ceccola was elected as Vice-Chair for a 2 year period commencing 25th July 2007.
Shared 'Members Councils' Web page
- The Members Councils Web page Web page provides in one place information that is of common interest to members of both the Customer Council and the Supplier Council.
- This includes the Forum/WorkingGroup Roadmaps
 Other Links
 See also The Open Group Customer Council
About the Supplier Council
The Open Group Supplier Council provides members who are designated as 'suppliers' (i.e. primarily vendors) of IT products and solutions with an opportunity to work with other supplier members to ensure that their membership and participation returns the best value, both to them as supplier members and to The Open Group as a whole. All supplier members are welcome to join.
The Supplier Council:
- Has one seat on the Board of Directors
We are therefore well-placed to ensure the customer viewpoint is well represented in The Open Group
- Raises issues and highlight problems
We want members to raise issues of importance to suppliers of IT solutions, to promote new ideas and opportunities for solutions, and to seek out and bring forward solutions to emerging problems.
- Influences the work of The Open Group
We operate at the front-end of the collaborative Open Group process, to foster proposals, to cultivate, refine, and prioritize them with other members, and to introduce them to the appropriate existing Forum for action.
- Seeks representation in each Forum of The Open Group
Each Forum is encouraged to appoint at least one Forum Liaison Representative member to assure good communication (in both directions) between the Supplier Council and their Forum, to share information on proposed solutions, and progress on projects and deliverables that will provide solutions.
- Promotes standards, and certifications
Use of standards-based solutions provides for greater assurance of interoperability between conforming products, so we encourage supplier members to develop and market products that conform to open systems standards. We further encourage suppliers to certify through The Open Group that their standards-based products conform to the applicable product standard - see the Certified Products link below.
- Focuses on getting best value from The Open Group for its members
We periodically reflect on the value of current Open Group activities, and recommend improvements to achieve optimum value from existing activities - Forums, links with other Consortia, Certification and more. This benefits member companies and organizations, as well as The Open Group.
We welcome your active involvement in ensuring that the supplier interests in The Open Group are well represented.
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