By Sonia Gonzalez, Digital Portfolio Manager, The Open Group, and Michelle Horrobin, Digital Portfolio Forum Director, The Open Group
The modern world runs on open standards. It does not matter if you are running a small firm or the most complex organization, Digital Transformation endeavors apply open standards to ensure that things that need to work together do work together.
By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications, The Open Group
On January 31 to February 1, The Open Group hosted a virtual event on Enterprise Architecture (EA) for Sustainability. Bringing together a global field of experts, the event took the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 9 as its guiding focus.
By Steve Nunn, President and CEO, The Open Group
Happy New Year! I hope that, wherever you are reading this, 2022 has started well for you and yours. It is clearly a time of continued concern and caution due to the on-going global pandemic, and yet it also feels like a moment of hope and optimism that we might finally begin to regain some kind of normality in our lives. It seems COVID-19 will be with us for some time to come, but I’d like to think that the coming year will be one with far less devastation on a human, social, and economic level. What I can say with certainty is that 2022 will be a busy and significant year for The Open Group.
With more technology in the hands of consumers than ever before, customers have become increasingly demanding in terms of not only the service they receive from companies but also the experience they have with your company or brand. Today, companies must be aware of and respond to what customers are looking for in terms of what they get from a company and how they interact—or they risk losing those customers.
By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications, The Open Group In the City of Lights, The Open Group hosted the last quarterly event of
Recently, The Open Group released a new open standard IT operating model and reference architecture called IT4IT™. They billed it as the answer to “How to run IT like a business.” At the same time, our Enterprise Architecture team at SKF was supporting the rollout of a major SAP initiative. To be successful in this initiative we became convinced that we must also simultaneously transform the way IT worked with the business to provide value.
