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By Allen Brown, President and CEO, The Open Group In early December, a technical problem at the U.K.’s central air traffic control center in Swanwick, England caused significant delays that were felt at airports throughout Britain and Ireland, also affecting … Continue reading →
By Sally Long, Director of The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum (OTTF)™ In April 2013, The Open Group announced the release of the Open Trusted Technology Provider™ Standard (O-TTPS) 1.0 – Mitigating Maliciously Tainted and Counterfeit Products. Now we are announcing … Continue reading →
We already have too many predefined frameworks for enterprise architecture, and that a better approach is to create the frameworks you need as and when you need them, starting from a small set of fundamental factors that are critical for effective EA. So why is this Cutter Advisor about yet another EA framework, and especially…
By Andrew Josey, The Open Group Following on from the news in December of the 1000th certification in the ArchiMate certification program, The Open Group has made some changes to the program that will make the certification program more accessible. … Continue reading →
By Allen Brown, President and CEO, The Open Group In his 1970 bestseller, Future Shock, futurist Alvin Toffler predicted that the rate of technological change and progress was beginning to accelerate at a rate faster than what people are often … Continue reading →
Every year Cutter compile a list of the five most intriguing articles published by their Business & Enterprise Architecture practice. I think it’s a good indication of the topics that are grabbing the top decision makers. How do they come up with this list? They chose articles that garner the most feedback from Cutter Members and…
By Andrew Josey, The Open Group We’re pleased to announce that the ArchiMate Certification for People program has reached the significant milestone of 1,000 individual certifications and there are individuals certified in 30 different countries as shown in the world … Continue reading →
Following the recent The Open Group’s “Business Transformation in Finance, Government & Healthcare” conference in London, I was pleased to see this comment about Lean Enterprise Architecture: “We were told that Standard Frameworks are too complex and multidimensional – people were interested in how we use them to provide simple working guidelines to the architecture…
By Jim Hietala, Vice President, Security, The Open Group According to a recent study by the Ponemon Institute, the average U.S. company experiences more than 100 successful cyber-attacks each year at a cost of $11.6M. By enabling security technologies, those … Continue reading →
By Andrew Josey, The Open Group We’re pleased to announce the latest release of the ArchiMate modeling language specification. ArchiMate® 2.1, an Open Group standard, is a full updated release of the ArchiMate Specification addressing comments raised since the introduction … Continue reading →
Time to rename it?There is an interesting discussion on the Zachman Framework LinkedIn group, about the practical use and tool support for the Zachman Framework. I’ve put up a couple of comments because the Zachman Framework is not a good basis for a practical EA use or tool support, and it is about time that…
By Stuart Boardman, KPN What does the apocalyptic vision of Blade Runner have to do with The Open Group’s Open Platform 3.0™ Forum? Throughout history, from the ancient Greeks and the Talmud, through The Future Eve and Metropolis to I … Continue reading →