The Open Group: archived home page headlines TOGAF™ practitioners pass the 10,000 milestone! The number of certified individuals reflects the "tremendous efforts" of certified practitioners, trainers and Architecture Forum members "to reduce risk, expedite change and create closer links between IT and business". We welcomed three more new members in September: Graphic Mining Solutions International (South Africa) as a silver member in the Exploration, Mining, Metals and Minerals Vertical Forum (EMMMv); and Arivia.kom (South Africa) and Anywhere s.r.o (Czech Republic) as silver members in our Architecture Forum Listen to the podcast on how the role and perception of enterprise architects needs to align better with business goals, as discussed by a panel at The Open Group Conference held recently in London, UK - or read the transcript. The latest Open Group member spotlight focuses on Paul van der Merwe, COO of Real IRM and chair of the Architecture Forum, who has been involved with The Open Group since 2007. We welcomed five more new members in the last week of July: GijimaAst Holdings (Proprietary) Ltd (South Africa) and Energy Consulting / Corporate IT Solutions (Russia) joined as silver members within the Architecture Forum; Sparx Systems (Australia), already a member of the Architecture Forum, additionally joined the ArchiMate® Forum; General Dynamics C4 Systems (US) joined DirecNet™; and Cellcrypt Limited (UK) joined the Jericho Forum. full list of members Listen to the podcast on how the role and perception of enterprise architects needs to align better with business goals, as discussed by a panel at The Open Group Conference held recently in London, UK - or read the transcript. Since the four new members who joined at the beginning of July, we have welcomed five more: Enterprise-IT-Security.com (Switzerland) as a Silver Member in the Security Forum; Lefatshe Technologies (South Africa), the University of New South Wales and The Marlo Group (Australia) as Silver Members in the Architecture Forum; and the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Helsinki University of Technology (Finland) as a Silver Member in both the Architecture and ArchMate® Forums. full list of members Open Group members - who tackled issues of the enterprise use of Cloud Computing at our London conference - prepare to carry them forward in Toronto. At the beginning of July we were very pleased to welcome Steria Ltd (UK) and the South African Revenue Services who, together with the South African Reserve Bank and Nokia Oy (UK) who joined at the end of June, are our newest Silver Members within the Architecture Forum. full list of members We have recently had the pleasure of welcoming two more new members, Ovations Techologies (PTY) Ltd (South Africa) at the end of May as a member of the Architecture Forum, and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. (USA) at the beginning of June as a Gold member. full list of members The Open Group has been pleased to welcome four new members since the beginning of May: Apollo Group, Inc. (USA) and JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) (UK) as Gold members; and OFFIS (Germany) and Mainline Information Systems (USA) as members of the Architecture Forum. In addition, IDS Scheer Nederland B.V. (The Netherlands), already a member of the Architecture Forum, has now also joined the ArchiMate® Forum. full list of members "Coming soon: The ultimate industry architecture" Computerworld reports that the hotel industry is the first to be applying enterprise architecture concepts across an entire industry. Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG), a global consortium of the industry's major stakeholders, has released the first version of its business process architecture which uses The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF™).Read the article The launch of TOGAF™9 in San Diego generated considerable positive comment in the press and within the online IT community. This blog entry by Ron Tolido, CTO Continental Europe & Asia Pacific at Capgemini, is a notable example. You can view a wider picture of the coverage. The Open Group welcomed two more new members at the end of April: Biner Consulting (Sweden) and Enterprise Architects Pty Ltd (Australia) which have both joined the Architecture Forum.They, together with MIC Business Solutions, Inc. (USA), eflow.Inc (Japan), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Soluta.net (Italy) bring to seven the number of new members joining The Open Group in the second half of the month. full list of members We have welcomed a further three organizations to The Open Group in the second half of March:- • ING Group (Netherlands) as a Gold Member • Netsac S.A (Columbia) as a member of the Architecture Forum • The Capital Group Companies, Inc. (USA), also as a member of the Architecture Forum full list of members The Open Group has now welcomed three new members in March - Van Haren Publishing in the Netherlands, the Department for Children, Schools and Families in the UK, and the University of Muenster, Germany, all of which have joined our Architecture Forum. full list of members The Open Group welcomes three more new members - Domus Technica BV, Netherlands, as a member of the Jericho Forum, the USA's Rockwell Collins which has joined our Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum, and the Department for Children, Schools and Families in the UK, which has joined our Architecture Forum. The Open Group has welcomed a further three members at the end of January - the University of Washington (WA, USA), Colorado Technical University, and UPCO, the Ultimate People Company ( UK), both as members of our Architecture Forum. TOGAF™ Version 9 debuts at The Open Group 21st Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference Hot tech certifications in a cool job market - InfoWorld identify top five certifications in a cool job market - ITAC one of the top five. SAP becomes Platinum Member in The Open Group and plans to standardize on ITAC for its own architects, regarding it as "tomorrow’s standard architecture certification". The Open Group's Dave Lounsbury talks to David Linthicum of 'Cloud Computing Podcast' about the summit The Open Group has welcomed three new members in January: Worklight (Israel) has joined our Security Forum; and TietoEnator Finland EA Consulting (Finland), a subsidiary of TietoEnator Corporation, and Forefront Consulting Group (Sweden) have both joined our Architecture Forum. The state of enterprise architecture in The Open Group is assessed by President and CEO, Allen Brown (podcast & transcript) Open Group Security Survey - please participate! The Security Forum is conducting a survey of security concerns in member organizations, and we encourage your input. Closes October 3. Click here to take survey "SOA places broad demands on IT leadership beyond the traditional enterprise architect role" - the conclusion of a panel discussion at The Open Group's Chicago conference (podcast & transcript on ZDNet) The Open Group Security Forum initiates the development of risk management and analysis taxonomy, the first phase of a comprehensive initiative aimed at eliminating widespread industry confusion. Podcast: Why IBM and Capgemini Back The Open Group's IT Certification Program. ebizQ's Beth Gold-Bernstein took time out from our ITSC show to interview IBM's Distinguished Engineer Phil Stauskas and Capgemini's CTO for Continental Europe & Asia Pacific Ron Tolido on why their companies see great value in The Open Group's standardized certification. Podcast: What Makes a Certifiable IT Specialist?  ITSC panelist Beth Gold-Bernstein spoke to The Open Group's Vice President of Certification, James de Raeve, about the key technical and non-technical criteria that can be applied to a board-level interview process to develop a more professional-level certification program. Vodafone is the latest in a line of major organizations to endorse our IT Architect Certification program Member Spotlight: Terence Blevins, MITRE Corporation's lead architect supporting the Air Force Agile Combat Support Architecture - who has been involved with The Open Group since the early 1980's - is the latest member to come under our spotlight. The open source project directory, ohloh.com, assesses OpenPegasus as having a mature, well-established code base with well-commented source code ... and estimates that it would have cost $8 million to date if written by a conventional team! Dr. Dobb’s Journal has issued a call for participation in a survey that explores an organization's adoption and experiences with several common process/architectural frameworks, including TOGAF. The Open Group invites you to register your interest in its upcoming IT Specialist Certification program - the first to certify IT specialists on an independent assessment of skills and experience.Download the white paper for more information, and register your interest Rolls-Royce Global CTO endorses The Open Group's IT Architect Certification program New IT Architect Certification level announced as program surpasses 2,000 certified - Read more Archived: November 22, 2007 Our latest Member Spotlight focuses on Jason Uppal, Chief Architect at QRS, who is also a member of The Open Group’s Architecture Forum, the TOGAF™ Certification Standing Committee, the TOGAF Development Team, and the ITAC Certification Board. Archived: November 13, 2007 The Open Group Names Len Fehskens Vice President and Global Professional Lead for Enterprise Architecture. Archived: October 8, 2007 The Open Group unveils plans for the IT Specialist Certification (ITSC) program which will be the first to certify IT specialists on an independent assessment of skills and experience Archived: October 5, 2007 Our latest Member Spotlight focuses on Sam Ceccola, Deputy Chief Technical Officer at BEA, and his views on the importance and benefits of Open Group affiliation to the IT end user community. Archived: September 19, 2007 Podcast: SOA Insights analysts discuss likely future of SOA at The Open Group's Austin conference - Transcript here Archived: August 14, 2007 ebizQ Podcast, David Linthicum on The Open Group's Enterprise Architecture Practitioner's Conference Archived: August 14, 2007 The Open Group announces key milestones - worldwide membership continues to rise amidst other strong performance indicators Archived: 14 August, 2007 Lottery Insights reports: Louisiana Lottery Association the first US lottery to gain quality assurance verification from The Open Group, acting for NASPL Archived: July 14, 2007 Infosys Technologies and The Open Group present a webinar on Enterprise Architecture trends: July 11, 2007 read more Archived: May 17, 2007 The Open Group's COO, Steve Nunn, joins the debate on the future of UNIX® certification ... and predicts "significant activity" ahead. Archived: May 17, 2007 The Open Group's CEO tells CNET how the latest information revolution demands a new breed of architect. Archived: April 10, 2007 British Sky Broadcasting Group endorses IT Architect Certification program Archived: January 22, 2007 The Apache Software Foundation is latest technology leader to embrace LDAP standard and achieve Open Group certification Archived: December 5, 2006 Infosys expands Enterprise Architecture capabilities with record number of TOGAF certified architects Archived: December 5, 2006 SOA In Practice - Open Group member ING derives real benefits from early SOA implementation Archived: December 5, 2006 Two Jericho Forum members have featured on a BBC radio program highlighting identity theft. Listen on-line to Privacy in Peril. Archived: December 5, 2006 The Open Group goes live with computer-based TOGAF™ 8 Certification testing.Exams also offered at Thomson Prometric Testing Centers worldwide Archived: October 31, 2006 IT Architect Certification program gaining ground — over 1,200 already registered, CEO tells eWeek. Also see the press release Archived: October 31, 2006 Worldwide membership in The Open Group reaches new high — growing importance of global standards cited as significant factor Archived: October 16, 2006 The new DirecNet task force has been formed under The Open Group. Its objective is to establish an open-standard directional networking system that can provide 1-gigabit-per-second data communication within hundreds of miles. Archived August 17, 2006 The Open Group has launched a new certification program for S/MIME Secure Messaging, to support deployment of secure e-mail systems. Archived:July 20, 2006 Average salary for TOGAF Certified professionals increases by almost 30% in one year Archived:July 19, 2006 Modeling SOA Implementation is the subject of Chris Harding's latest article in ebizQ Archived:July 19, 2006 First IT Architects from EDS Achieve Certification from The Open Group Archived:July 18, 2006 Lottery Insights showcases launch of NASPL Bar Code Certification Program, which is designed and operated by The Open Group Archived:July 18, 2006 IT Architect … Profession of the Future: SAP INFO interviews The Open Group's Allen Brown and Graham Bird Archived:July 18, 2006 IEEE and The Open Group give the NetBSD Foundation permission from to incorporate material from the POSIX® standard Archived:July 17, 2006 The Open Cannes Awards dinner was held in Washington DC on April 24. photo gallery award winners Archived: May 1, 2006 The Open Group-led Telcert project promises major implication for interoperability in learning technology more Archived: May 1, 2006 ebizQ features Chris Harding's new article, ISO 11179 Versus Ontologies more Archived: March 23, 2006 In its article Java Breaks Out, EE Times featured work of The Open Group's Realtime and Embedded Systems Forum on a safety-critical Java standard more Archived: March 23, 2006 IBM's internal IT Architect program the first to achieve accreditation for The Open Group's IT Architect Certification program more Archived: March 23, 2006 The Open Group's IT Architect Certification program adds a complementary level more Archived: March 3, 2006 The Open Group's Interconnect Software Consortium (ICSC) releases Version 2.1 of the Interconnect Transport Application Programming Interface (IT-API) more Archived: March 3, 2006 A collaborative white paper by the Integration Consortium, OMG, and The Open Group, TOGAF/MDA Mapping, is now available from The Open Group Bookstore more Archived: February 26, 2006 In his latest article for ebizQ, Chris Harding discusses the intriguing concept of Semantic Name Service more Archived: February 27, 2006 The Open Group's Architecture and Security forums release Guide to Security Architecture in TOGAF ADM more Archived: February 27, 2006 NewsFactor Magazine discusses the growing demand for IT Architects and quotes HP's CTO, Tony Redmond more Archived: February 27, 2006 Certification Magazine features The Open Group's certification program, spotlighting IT architects and the growing importance of credentials.   more . Archived: February 26, 2006 Chris Harding's article, Achieving Business Agility through Model-Driven SOA, published on ebizQ more Archived: January 10, 2006 The Open Group, The Object Management Group™, and the Integration Consortium announce the availability of a jointly developed white paper, TOGAF/MDA Mapping more Archived: January 10, 2006 Software Development Magazine features The Open Group's IT Architect Certification program and interviews IBM's Chief Architect, Andras Szakal more Archived: January 10, 2006 The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF -- 'The Book') - 500 pages fully illustrated in color - is now on sale at our Book Store. more Archived: December 19, 2005 Chris Harding's article "Making SOA Happen" is featured in the current edition of ebizQ. more Archived: October 19, 2005 Allen Brown, The Open Group's President and CEO, discusses certification for IT Architects with SD Times more Archived: October 19, 2005 The Open Group's Graham Bird shares his thoughts with Certification Magazine: certification of IT Architects needs to be skills- and experience-based more Archived: October 13, 2005 IT Architect Certification seen as taking "a decidedly professional direction" more   Archived: October 13, 2005 Capgemini and NEC join other industry leaders as Platinum Members of The Open Group more Archived: October 13, 2005 New POSIX® Certification addresses predictability in realtime computing services more Archived: September 1, 2005 The Open Group launches global certification program for IT Architects more Archived: September 1, 2005 IPv6 Forum & The Open Group to cooperate on deploying an industry-wide IPv6 Product Standard more Archived: September 1, 2005 Chris Harding's article, "Information Technology for Government Services" featured on ebizQ more Archived: August 4, 2005 European Community supports High Integrity Java (HIJA) project, led by The Open Group, to develop architecturally neutral real-time system more Archived: August 2, 2005 HTNG launched the first branding and certification program for hotel technology, developed jointly with The Open Group more Archived: August 2, 2005 Chris Harding speaks with IT Business Edge on semantic interoperability more Archived: July 18, 2005 IT Architecture Practitioners Conference in Dublin an overwhelming success with over 300 attendees from 25 countries - if you missed it, check out the Proceedings more Archived: July 18, 2005 Chris Harding's article, "IT Architecture Comes of Age", featured on ebizQ more Archived: July 1, 2005 HTNG members briefed on the upcoming certification program that it is developing jointly with The Open Group more Archived: June 6, 2005 The upcoming IT Architecture Certification Program at the forefront of discussions at The Open Group's Dublin conference more Archived: June 6, 2005 Chris Harding's article "Is SOA a Fad or Silver Bullet?" featured in ebizQ more Archived: May 27, 2005 Interview with Jamie Lewis, CEO and Research Chair of the Burton Group more Archived: May 27, 2005 Computer Weekly features John Spencer's article: When is an architecture change required? more Archived: May 27, 2005 CIO Magazine lists TOGAF as one of the most popular frameworks more Archived: May 4, 2005 NASPL Standards Initiative Certification Program Launches - a customer testimonial more Older headlines here