The Enterprise Architecture Management Suite Landscape, Q4 2025 Is Out!

Enterprise architecture (EA) leaders face unprecedented pressure to cut through complexity. Technology portfolios are sprawling, operating models are in flux, and the mandate for strategic alignment has never been more urgent. In The Enterprise Archite…

How implementation of cybersecurity practices affects the architectural design of HIS

How the implementation of cybersecurity practices affects thearchitectural design of…

How implementation of cybersecurity practices affects the architectural design of HIS

How implementation of cybersecurity practices affects the architectural design of…

How Does Cloud Computing Enhance Enterprise Performance in Organizations?

How Does Cloud Computing Enhance Enterprise Performance in Organizations? by…

Plan Now For Major Changes To Oracle Java Licensing Costs

Oracle has again changed licensing rules for its widely used Java product. On January 23, 2023, the company introduced a new license metric, the SE Universal Subscription. It offers all the benefits of the legacy Java SE subscription, plus universal us…

The Open Group Event Highlights – July 25-27, 2022 – Washington DC

In late July, The Open Group hosted an event bringing together speakers and practitioners from around the world to meet in Washington, DC at the historical Mayflower Hotel, and discuss some of today’s most vital topics in the area of security and resiliency. 

With a focus on Zero Trust Architecture and Supply Chain Security, leaders from businesses including Microsoft, IBM, Micro Focus, and ServiceNow joined experts from public sector organizations like NIST and NASA, together with representatives from The Open Group itself, to explore how open standards are driving important developments and actionable insights in these important and developing topics.

A Shared Language for Supply Chain Security

In the world of technology, there are paradigms of language that arise organically and artificially over time. Necessity requires a shared mode of communication for ideas and as a result, descriptors, nouns, and technical designators are created and shared. The problem arises when certain words acquire a surfeit of meaning, so much so that they paradoxically become less meaningful. There are many examples of this but for our purposes, we’re going to look at “Supply Chain Security”.