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Munich Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, Oct. 20, 2008 - The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, today announced the formation of a new Forum to oversee development of the ArchiMate® standard. Through The Open Group’s standards work around ArchiMate, the enterprise architecture description language, a path is being paved for the world's first truly global enterprise architecture description language.
The ArchiMate standard originated in 2002 and was initially developed by the Dutch Telematica Institute together with a large market consortium and the ArchiMate Foundation. Since that time it has experienced rapid growth and international adoption within multiple industries. ArchiMate is an open and independent modelling language for enterprise architecture, supported by different tool vendors and consulting firms. ArchiMate provides instruments to support enterprise architects in describing, analyzing and visualizing the relationships among business domains in an unambiguous way.
ArchiMate will deliver a language which has a strategic fit with The Open Group's global flagship standard TOGAF™. TOGAF is the delivery method for enterprise architecture artifacts and ArchiMate is the modelling language. ArchiMate is thus an ideal candidate to deliver TOGAF enterprise architecture models as well as being an ideal starting position for MDA because it fully incorporates the service paradigm and has clear implementation relationships to BPMN and UML.
The Open Group's newly established ArchiMate Forum has already started its work. “We are currently in the process of standardizing and internationally adopting ArchiMate 1.0 as a global standard,” said Henry Franken, chairman of the Forum. “At the upcoming Open Group conference in Munich (20-24 October 2008), ArchiMate 1.0 will be presented.”
"I am delighted to welcome ArchiMate to The Open Group and look forward to bringing it closer to other industry standards,” commented Allen Brown, CEO for The Open Group.
For further information on ArchiMate and to get involved with the new Forum, please visit: http://www.opengroup.org/archimate/.
The ArchiMate Forum of The Open Group is the platform for everyone involved with the use and evolution of ArchiMate. Joining the ArchiMate Forum means contributing to the convergence needed to reach the next level of professional development in our field. Member contribution means active support for the use, dissemination, and further development of the ArchiMate specification. The ArchiMate Forum is open to all organizations that apply enterprise architecture in practice or support its use and development.
The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, which drives the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow™ that will enable access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability. The Open Group works with customers, suppliers, consortia and other standard bodies. Its role is to capture, understand and address current and emerging requirements, establish policies and share best practices; to facilitate interoperability, develop consensus, and evolve and integrate specifications and open source technologies; to offer a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia; and to operate the industry’s premier certification service. Further information on The Open Group can be found at http://www.opengroup.org.
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