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Future Shock: Why IT Needs to Embrace Agile Development or Be Left Behind
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...
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IT4IT™ Reference Architecture Version 2.0, an Open Group Standard
By The Open Group 1 Title/Current Version IT4IT™ Reference Architecture Version 2.0, an Open Group Standard 2 The Basics The Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture standard comprises a reference...
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The UNIX® Based Cloud
By Harry Foxwell, PhD, Principal Consultant, Oracle® Oracle® Solaris continues to evolve as the foundation for critical private cloud implementations. As the premier UNIX® operating system in the IT...
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Value of UNIX® Certification: Customers Can Focus on Solving Business...
UNIX certification is a trusted and open system industry standard, ensuring that products conform to the most exacting criteria for portability, compatibility, and global interoperability. Continue...
View ArticleUsing the ArchiMate® Standard to Streamline Internal Processes: A...
Lourens Riemens, an Enterprise Architect with the Netherlands Tax & Customs Administration, will be speaking at The Open Group Amsterdam event about how the agency has used ArchiMate®, an Open...
View Article5 Steps to Create Winning Enterprise Integration Strategy in the Digital Era
In the fast paced technology driven businesses, quick turnaround solutions like microservices often take the precedence over “planned” integration. This strategy, although in short term, provides for...
View ArticleHow the TOGAF® Standard Enables Agility
The Open Group TOGAF Standard Version 9.2 was published April 16, 2018. A common misconception voiced by several people at that time was that Enterprise Architecture in general and the TOGAF Standard...
View ArticleArchiMate® Modeling Language and Agile – A Conversation with Marc Lankhorst
This blog, the third in a series with Marc Lankhorst, Managing Consultant for BiZZdesign, looks at how architecture in general and the ArchiMate language in particular can add a lot of value to agile...
View ArticleENTERPRISE AGILITY THROUGH ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
In the recent few years, Enterprise Agility has become one of the key drivers for many organizations to be relevant and to sustain their core businesses. As the change is happening so rapidly in every...
View ArticleAgile Architecture in the Digital Age – a Conversation with Frédéric Lé
The agile transformation of the enterprise is becoming a pre-requisite of an effective digital transformation project. This requires organizations to adopt a product-centric, outside-in perspective,...
View ArticleAgility within The Open Group
What an exciting event in the city of Denver, Colorado the week of July 22, 2019! If you were at this conference you would probably have noticed the breadth and depth of work happening in The Open...
View ArticleThe Interesting Case of Who’s Using the IT4IT™ Standard – Part One – The...
The Open Group IT4IT™ Reference Architecture, a standard of The Open Group, is a value chain-based standard reference and operating model for managing the business of IT. It creates a model of the...
View ArticleThe Interesting Case of Who’s Using the IT4IT™ Standard – Part Two – The Oil...
The Open Group IT4IT™ Reference Architecture, a standard of The Open Group uses a value chain framework that applies this concept to IT by defining an integrated IT management framework focusing on the...
View ArticleArchiMate® 3.1 Specification: The New Version of the Standard
At The Open Group event in Amsterdam on November 5, 2019, the latest version of the ArchiMate® modeling language for Enterprise Architecture was released. Version 3.1 is an update to the previous major...
View ArticleEA and Agile – Not Mutually Exclusive After All!
Every organization needs to be Agile in order to handle all kind of forces and developments inside and outside the organization. Equally, organizations also need the structure and overarching view of...
View ArticleTOGAF® CERTIFICATION MILESTONE – SOON TO REACH 100K GLOBALLY
The number of individuals certified in the TOGAF® Certification Program as of May 2020 is growing rapidly and about to surpass 100,000 – currently standing at 98,900. This includes certified...
View ArticleIndia’s National Digital Health Mission: A New Model to Enhance Health Outcomes
On August 15, 2020, India’s 74th Independence Day, Prime Minister Modi launched the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM). The NDHM is a comprehensive digital platform that brings together multiple...
View ArticleBecoming a Digital-First Enterprise: The Open Group October 2020 Virtual Event
Amidst ongoing global uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is evident: Business and technology leaders are facing the radical, fundamental change of becoming a digital enterprise....
View ArticleThe Open Group ‘Digital-First’ Virtual Event October 26 – 29, 2020 – Highlights
In the ongoing transition to Digital-First, an increasing number of technology executives, managers, and practitioners are looking for new approaches that will help them to make sense of the evolving...
View ArticleReflections on 2020 and Looking Ahead to 2021
By Steve Nunn, President and CEO, The Open Group Happy New Year everyone! Firstly, I hope that you, your family, and friends, have been able to stay safe during these trying times. So many around the...
View ArticleImplementing Open Agile Architecture practices, with Continuous Architectural...
A description of the author’s recent experience implementing Open Agile Architecture practices on projects. This post focuses on continuous architectural refactoring, particularly planning,...
View ArticleAre Standards “The Turning Point” for Agility?
y, Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture & Strategy I consider open standards a huge time saver when getting started on any architecture engagement. I would like to start a conversation here...
View Article“All Standards are Wrong”?
By Kees van den Brink, Senior Manager Platform Architect, ServiceNow. This blog title is derived from the famous quote by George E.P. Box from his paper “Science and Statistics”: Box made this...
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