Objective of Meeting
Summary
Outputs
Next Steps
Links
Sponsoring Forum(s)
Architecture
Directory Interoperability
Enterprise Management/
QoS/AQRM
Grid Enterprise Services
Messaging
Mobile Management
Open Source in the Enterprise
Platform
Real-Time &
Embedded Systems
Security
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The Open Group Profile
Objective of Meeting
To educate attendees about The Open Group, activities of the members, Forums, and work
areas, and to explain why Boundaryless Information Flow is important to their
organization. This session was designed to engage non-members in a discussion about their
interests in The Open Group and to present information about The Open Group as necessary.
The "new style dialogue" approach was used.
Summary
The session commenced with introductions of The Open Group staff in attendance: Graham
Bird, Terry Blevins, Chris Parnell, and Paul Hickey. This was followed by introductions of
attendees, along with an expression of their interest. Staff then asked questions to
elicit the needs of the attendees and provided information that was pertinent to their
interest. There was a good deal of interest in the audience about enterprise
architecture. The following table summarizes anonymous interests.
| Interest Area |
# Expressions of Interest |
| TOGAF (TOGAF in XML, TRM, best practices, case studies, professional
services, ...) |
15 |
| Security (safety, cross-enterprise security solutions, ID and access
management standards, MLS, ... ) |
8 |
| BIF (general, near, and real time) |
4 |
| System integration (integration of IT services into corporation,
largescale implementation, and integration, …) |
3 |
| Interoperability (middleware, system level, …) |
3 |
| Certification |
2 |
| Connectivity |
1 |
| e-Gov |
1 |
| Information Assurance in Open Enterprise Systems |
1 |
| LDAP |
1 |
| Messaging |
1 |
| Open GIS |
1 |
| RTES |
1 |
Outputs
The output produced in this meeting was a better understanding of The Open Group on the
part of the attendees and a better understanding of interests on the part of The Open
Group staff.
We hope it was clear that The Open Group members are here at The Open Group to work on their
problems with other members; problems that are directly related to their
representative organizations! Much work is accomplished outside of the conferences in
teleconferences and interim meetings. So working on problems within The Open Group allows
members to get more for less by leveraging The Open Group staff and infrastructure
and each other.
Next Steps
It is hoped that attendees that are not members will consider becoming members of The
Open Group.
Links
Presentation material included Making Progress
Towards Boundaryless Information Flow (available to Members only).
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