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The Open Group Blog Achieving business objectives through technology standards About The Open Group Blog About The Open Group Podcasts Submissions The Open Group Website Ecosystems Architecture: New Thinking for Practitioners in the Age of AI Part 1: Where It All Began May 9, 2024 The Open Group Blog By Ash Patel, Marketing Specialist, The Open Group Recently we sat down with some of the authors of the game changing book titled ‘Ecosystems Architecture: New Thinking for Practitioners in the Age of AI’, to discuss the conception of the book and where it all began. The full interview can be found below involving Paul Homan and Rahul talking in depth about the beginnings of the book, as co-authors along with Phil Tetlow and Neal Fishman, of the Ecosystems Architecture: New Thinking for Practitioners in the Age of AI book. Continue reading Share this post: Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Reddit More Facebook Pinterest Print Tumblr Email Pocket WhatsApp Like this: Like Loading... The Open Group Summit – Events Highlights Ecosystems ArchitectureAI Standards, Edinburgh, UK, April 22-25, 2024 May 1, 2024 The Open Group Blog By Ash Patel, Marketing Specialist, The Open Group The recent Summit of The Open Group in Edinburgh featured a vast variety of leading subject matter experts, keynote speakers, Forum Members, Work Groups, and Consortia, who came together to start a conversation involving the following themes: Ecosystems ArchitectureAI Standards, Sustainability / Enterprise Architecture / Digital Transformation, and much more. There were over 425 attendees from 30 countries! Continue reading Share this post: Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Reddit More Facebook Pinterest Print Tumblr Email Pocket WhatsApp Like this: Like Loading... Celebrating 15 Years of the ArchiMate® Modeling Language: A Milestone in Enterprise Architecture April 18, 2024 The Open Group Blog By Kelly Canon, ArchiMate® Forum Director, The Open Group, with contributions from Andrew Josey, VP, StandardsCertification, The Open Group Originally developed in the period 2002-2004 by a group of organizations and institutions in the Netherlands led by the Telematica Instituut, the ArchiMate® Modeling Language was created for Enterprise Architects by Enterprise Architects with the goal of a common language for modeling an enterprise. Continue reading Share this post: Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Reddit More Facebook Pinterest Print Tumblr Email Pocket WhatsApp Like this: Like Loading... Value-Based Architecture for Healthcare April 17, 2024 The Open Group Blog The Open Group® Healthcare Forum is now working on a Snapshot of what is intended to become its Value-Based Architecture™ or O-VBA™ for Healthcare standard. The standard will offer Enterprise Architects working in healthcare delivery settings a reusable, extensible, and scalable tool for continuously improving the value and efficiency of patient-centered care. It will apply to all medical specialties and clinical ecosystems. Architects will be able to use the O-VBA for Healthcare standard to help create and sustain value-based healthcare systems. Continue reading Share this post: Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Reddit More Facebook Pinterest Print Tumblr Email Pocket WhatsApp Like this: Like Loading... Improving Return on Security Investment: Threat Modeling and The Open Group Open FAIR™ Risk Analysis as a KPI for Agile Projects April 16, 2024 The Open Group Blog The first three posts of this series have laid plain the need to supplement ongoing threat modeling activities with quantitative risk analysis, such as the process described in The Open Group Open FAIR™ Body of Knowledge. They’ve briefly discussed a way to incorporate Open FAIR Risk Analysis in the threat modeling process and illustrate how the results would improve return on security investment by deliberately selecting cost-effective combinations of controls. But questions remain: Continue reading Share this post: Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Reddit More Facebook Pinterest Print Tumblr Email Pocket WhatsApp Like this: Like Loading... The Open Group Open Footprint® Data Model Snapshot is now Released and Available April 11, 2024 The Open Group Blog By: AJ Van de Voort, Intertek and co-chair, Open Footprint Forum, Sammy Lakshmanan, PWC and co-chair, Open Footprint Forum, Heidi Karlsson, The Open Group, Director Continue reading Share this post: Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Reddit More Facebook Pinterest Print Tumblr Email Pocket WhatsApp Like this: Like Loading... Art of Abstraction for Enterprise Architects: Inspired by Pablo Picasso’s ‘The Bull’ April 9, 2024 The Open Group Blog By Rajen Patel, Enterprise Architect, SAP. See the essence under the dust of complexity.” One might not instantly connect the realms of abstract art and Enterprise Architecture, but Picasso’s approach to abstraction presents a powerful model for simplifying and focusing on complex business structures. Continue reading Share this post: Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Reddit More Facebook Pinterest Print Tumblr Email Pocket WhatsApp Like this: Like Loading... Improving Return on Security Investment: Estimating the Impact of Mitigations April 2, 2024 The Open Group Blog By Simone Curzi, Principal Consultant, Microsoft; John Linford, Security Portfolio Forum Director, The Open Group; Dan Riley, Vice PresidentDistinguished Engineer Data Science, Kyndryl; Ken St. Cyr, Sr. Cybersecurity Architect, Microsoft Understanding the risks present in the system you are developing is important, but it is even more important to determine mitigation actions. Activities like threat modeling can help with identifying your options, but they are usually too numerous and too expensive. What should you really do? And would the residual risk be acceptable afterwards? Continue reading Share this post: Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Reddit More Facebook Pinterest Print Tumblr Email Pocket WhatsApp Like this: Like Loading... Improving Return on Security Investment: Evaluating the Current Risk March 20, 2024 The Open Group Blog By Simone Curzi, Principal Consultant, Microsoft; John Linford, Security Portfolio Forum Director, The Open Group; Dan Riley, Vice PresidentDistinguished Engineer, Data Science, Kyndryl; Ken St. Cyr, Sr. Cybersecurity Architect, Microsoft Threat Modeling and Open FAIR™ Standard, a standard of The Open Group, can answer some of the most important questions we have currently on Security. With this second blog in the ‘Improving Return on Security Investment’ series, we try to answer one of those key questions: How much security is enough?” Continue reading Share this post: Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Reddit More Facebook Pinterest Print Tumblr Email Pocket WhatsApp Like this: Like Loading... The Open Group Portfolio of Digital Open Standards: Navigating Your Digital Landscape February 29, 2024 The Open Group Blog By Sonia Gonzalez , Digital Manager, Portfolio of Digital Open Standards, The Open Group According to MIT Sloan and Capgemini, 90% of CEOs believe the digital economy will impact their industry, but less than 15% are executing on a digital strategy. Digital transformation has become essential for businesses to remain competitive in today’s changing market and technological landscape. In recent years, there has been a rapid transformation in the business world, as many companies are adopting new technologies to streamline their operations. Continue reading Share this post: Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Reddit More Facebook Pinterest Print Tumblr Email Pocket WhatsApp Like this: Like Loading... Improving Return on Security Investment: Threat ModelingOpen FAIR™ Risk Analysis February 13, 2024 The Open Group Blog For most, Security is a cost. Therefore, it is important to get just the right amount of it, and no more. But how do you decide when you have enough Security, and what do you do to get it? That’s an entirely different matter. This is the first post of a series on how to Improve the...