The Open Group: Information without boundaries
The Open Group
Capgemini is a Platinum Board Member of The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, whose role is to capture industry
best practices, facilitate interoperability and provide certification. Its mission
is described as enabling “boundaryless information flow.”
In January 2006, Capgemini Architect Dave van Gelder was elected Vice Chair of The Open Group’s Architecture Forum. The Forum has developed and is evolving a comprehensive, globally recognized enterprise architecture framework “to enable businesses to achieve the right balance between IT efficiency and business innovation.” Specifically the Forum brings together customers, vendors, consultants, governments and academia to work on open standards such as:
- TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework): A comprehensive architecture framework and methodology which enables the design, evaluation and implementation of the right architecture for an enterprise.
- TOGAF Certification: An assurance program providing four classes of certification: Certified, Tool Support, Training and Professional Services. It is used by architecture service providers, tool vendors and individual enterprise architects.
- IT Architect Certification: Supporting the establishment of a skills and experience-based IT Architect Certification program, that provides a foundation for trust between suppliers and customers; and collaborating with other leading standards bodies to make IT architecture a professional discipline.
- Architecture: Promoting the availability of effective tools for enterprise architecture.
OASIS
Capgemini is a sponsor member of OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards). The group is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development,
convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. OASIS is responsible for some
of the most important technical standards around Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA).
One of the largest and most successful standards bodies, OASIS has taken a large amount of ownership in the SOA standards space, including several key Web Service standards groups, and the more abstract SOA Reference Model and SOA Blueprints efforts. OASIS is also the organization that owns the various Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language (ebXML) standards.
