HIGHLIGHTS FROM
Global Architectures for
Enterprise Systems Integration
| Participation: |
Despite the economic climate and difficulties of travelling from other continents, the meeting attendance was good. We had a total of 165 participants with 52% from the Asia-Pacific Region. |
| Topicality: |
The theme of Global Architectures
was well chosen. Feedback from the interactive session demonstrated the importance
attached by members and non-members to the subject with cost reduction and
interoperability as the prime benefits of deployment. Nick Price and Geoff
McClelland illustrated this so well for the Diary Farm Group evidencing savings of well
over $3.7million in the first months of DFG adopting an architectured approach based on The Open Group Architectural Framework (TOGAF) tied to its new
business strategy. |
| Regional Influence: |
The contribution of speakers from the Asia-Pacific region was enormous. Dr Toh must be complemented on making the law interesting and showing how the government can enable and encourage electronic commerce. Michael Yap amply demonstrated the excitement surrounding Singapore One backed by a government which has the imagination to see broadband width access in every school and workplace, and to move to have all government departments accepting electronic documents. |
| Future: |
Ted Hanss' presentation of Internet2 complemented that of Michael Yap. He showed us the future for the Internet with advanced, very high speed networks supporting interactive systems for health, education, climatology and many other applications. |
| Collaboration: |
The presentation by the world's four key players in Defence showed the global collaboration which also characterises The Open Group. The development of a Global Defence Architecture shows convergence across the Armed Forces with substantial benefits including interoperability of equipment deployed in the field. |
| Ongoing Business: |
The Open Group Update and IT DialTone™ sessions confirmed the relevance of the IT DialTone vision and the link to current work programs, projects and collaborative work Its goal of achieving greater interoperability and leading integration was repeatedly re-affirmed. |
| Documentation: |
The provision of conference documentation through a local server was well received. This forms part of a program to provide the documentation through the conference and afterwards, and for the eventual production of materials on CD-ROM for member's intranets. This obviates the need for paper copies and the conference binder. |
| Special Sessions: |
These confirmed that opportunities exist for The Open Group to support the evolution of Java and the development of the mobile client, and to rationalise across the whole field of client devices from hand held devices to the high-end workstation. |
| Briefings and Program
Groups: |
DCE - The new strategy of extending the reach of DCE by embracing alternative technologies, and focusing on comprehensive business solutions was well received by users, vendors, and systems integrators. |
| Security - Following industry concensus on a universal API for biometrics, the Security Group will be developing a work program to integrate this with SmartCards and hence into CDSA. Agreed to develop advanced authorization services that handle criteria other than identity and role. | |
| Management - Provided a well-recieved briefing session which benefitted greatly from the interaction of speakers and participants from both the buy-side and supply-side of the industry. | |
| TOGAF - Delivered its first In-Depth Briefing on The Open Group Architectural Framework and the IT DialTone Architecture | |
| Our speakers: | We extend our thanks to all our speakers who gave such a feast of information and insights in both our Plenary and Briefing Sessions |
| Next Conference: | We invite you to join us at our next Conference in Santa Clara. January 25-29 1999. The plennary theme will be "Global eBusiness-to-eBusiness" focusing on the strategic issues - opportunties and barriers to growth. |