Day 3 Highlights

The third and final day of The Open Group IT Architecture Practitioners Conference in Miami offered multiple streams that addressed service oriented architecture, architecting business transformation, key issues in enterprise architecture tools, architecture deployment and business value realization, architecting the secure enterprise, and an update on TOGAF™. TOGAF 8 case studies were presented and a key part of the TOGAF stream addressed the future: evolving towards TOGAF Version 9.

The information gleaned from all of these sessions has provided conference attendees with greater insight into the evolving role of the enterprise architect and how attendees’ varied and important contributions to this profession will influence the future of enterprise architecture and help fulfill The Open Group’s vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™.

The Open Group has also issued some great news at this week’s conference. The first announced that TOGAF 8 certification testing is now available in a computer-based format at Thomson Prometric Testing Centers worldwide.

On Tuesday, The Open Group announced a great milestone: Open Group IT Architect Certification (ITAC) certification has been achieved by more than 1,200 individuals since its debut just one year ago.

Last, but certainly not least, on Wednesday, The Open Group released information about a significant expansion of its membership with 23 new companies joining the organization from around the globe in recent weeks. These new members represent a diverse group of organizations from across multiple industries, and include Philips, Novartis Pharma, Wipro Technologies, and Unisys. For more information on the latest news from The Open Group, please visit: www.opengroup.org/comm/press.

We want to take this opportunity to thank all of you who were able to attend the IT Architecture Practitioners Conference in Miami for your contribution. For those of you who could not attend this conference, we wanted to remind you that the next IT Architecture Practitioners Conference will be taking place in beautiful Lisbon, Portugal, October 23–25 2006. For more information visit: www.opengroup.org/lisbon2006.

Finally, the conference proceedings will be available in various forms. For members and attendees of the conference all the materials will be online at www.opengroup.org by Wednesday July 26. For those not attending, the CD-ROM will be available by the end of the month.

If you are not a member of The Open Group,  you can order T062, IT Architecture Practitioners' Conference Miami 2006 Proceedings NOW at: www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/t062.htm, priced at $299.

If you are a member of The Open Group and you would like a physical disk, you can order the CD-ROM at  www.opengroup.org/bookstore/mocatalog/t062m.htm, priced at $99.

We look forward to seeing you in Lisbon.