Why You Shouldn’t Miss The Open Group Summit — Oslo 2026

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By Ash Patel – CDMP – Certified Copywriter (CMP) – Content Marketing Manager, The Open Group

The Open Group Summit Oslo 2026 is set to bring together enterprise leaders, architects, standards experts, and technology innovators from across industries for four days of collaboration, strategic insight, and real-world outcomes that drive business value and Digital Transformation. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner, an emerging technologist, a standards contributor, or a business leader exploring how Open Standards enable interoperability, this Summit provides a unique platform to connect with a global community dedicated to solving complex challenges and shaping the future of Enterprise Architecture and technology.

From Shadow IT to Shadow AI: Architecture’s New Mandate in the Age of Autonomous Intelligence

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By Sherrine Green-Thompson, Senior Expert – Digital Transformation, KPMG Netherlands For more than two decades, enterprise leaders have wrestled with Shadow IT — unsanctioned spreadsheets, departmental databases, and later, cloud applications adopted o…

When Every Enterprise Architecture Tool Looks The Same…

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The demos all blurred together. Another week, another vendor pitch. Slide after slide promised a “single source of truth,” “360degree visibility,” and “seamless collaboration across the enterprise.” The names changed. The interfaces changed. But to the…

Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Enterprise Architecture (EA) Discipline

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By Tushar Hazra, Ph.D. Introduction: AI Forces a Structural Re-think of EA Artificial Intelligence (AI) has often been described as a disruptive technology in industry today. For Enterprise Architecture (EA), this characterization is misleadingly mild….

Celebrating 10 Years of the Open Process Automation™ Forum

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By Ash Patel – CDMP – Certified Copywriter (CMP) – CDMA, Marketing Specialist, The Open Group

This year marks a major milestone: 10 years since the launch of The Open Group Open Process Automation™ Forum (OPAF), officially formed on January 31, 2017.

From the very beginning, our vision was clear—transform the way process automation systems are designed, integrated, and sustained. We set out to replace the limitations of proprietary, closed systems with a vendor-neutral, modular, secure, and interoperable architecture. That vision became the Open Process Automation Standard, a standard of The Open Group – built by and for the global industrial automation community.