The Open Group 2023 Highlights, Including a Glance into 2024

By Steve Nunn, President & CEO, The Open Group.

Happy New Year! I hope that, wherever you are reading this, 2024 has started well for you and yours.

I believe that 2024 will be another busy and significant year for The Open Group, as was 2023. So much happened last year that I thought that I would take the opportunity to look back at some of the highlights, and add a few peeks into this coming year.

Step Into a Career in Data Science

By Dan Riley, Distinguished Engineer & Vice President, Data Science, Kyndryl

November 2022’s post, “The Fully Credentialed Data Science Professional”, recommended a combination of credentials toward which data scientists and related professionals should work. However, as the well-known Chinese proverb roughly says, “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” The Open Group is adding a clear starting point for students, trainees, and career changers to begin their professional data science journeys.

The ArchiMate® Patterns Library: What is it and how to contribute

By Kelly Canon, ArchiMate® Forum Director, The Open Group

The ArchiMate Modeling Language, standardizes an organizations framework to effectively describe, analyze and visualize their enterprise architecture. By using a standardized language like ArchiMate, not only does it allow internal stakeholders to understand and communicate simple to complex architectural concepts and relationships, but it can encourage the sharing of non-proprietary “patterns” with other enterprise architects.

Congratulations to the Outstanding Contribution Award Winners for The Open Group OSDU® Forum, Houston, TX, November 2023

By Ash Patel, Marketing Specialist, The Open Group

During The Open Group Houston Summit in November 2023, Steve Nunn, President and CEO, The Open Group, Patrick Kelly, Product Line Manager Subsurface Data & Insights, Chevron, and Michael Cleminson, Global Innovation Manager, SLB-OMC, along with Dennis Stevens, Program Director, OSDU Forum, The Open Group, proudly announced the winners of The Open Group OSDU® Forum Awards.

The Open Group Summit – Event Highlights Delivering a Sustainable and Secure Tomorrow – Houston, Texas – October 30 – November 2, 2023

By Ash Patel, Marketing Specialist, The Open Group

The recent Summit of The Open Group in Houston brought together a variety of subject matter experts, keynote speakers, Forum Members, Work Groups, and Consortia to engage in an active dialogue involving the following tracks: Enterprise Architecture (EA) for Sustainability, Cybersecurity and Zero Trust, Open Industry Standards, and The Digital Enterprise.

Sitting Down with The Open Group India Awards Winners of ‘The Most Promising Program for Women in EA’

By Ash Patel, Marketing Specialist, The Open Group

On July 27, 2023, The Open Group India Awards for Innovation and Excellence in the Use of Open Standards and Open Source celebrated and applauded the remarkable achievements of organizations in the use of The Open Group Standards.

We recently sat down with the recipients of the Most Promising Program for Women in EA Award; Sheetal Khandkar and Rajashree Das, to discuss their respective journeys, what it was like winning the award, and much more.

Enabling Effective Emissions Data Management and Sharing

By The Open Group Open Footprint™ Forum. The Open Group Open Footprint™ Forum today published a white paper that provides an overview of the GHG emissions data management area, regulations that are driving activity, and the work of the Open Footprint Forum. The Forum is making significant progress in our standards work related to building a standard data model for emissions, and related open source tools to ease adoption.