The Open Group: An Introduction

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The Open Group An Introduction

• Interoperable Informatics Infrastructure
  Consortium May 6th, 2003

44 Montgomery Street Suite 960 San Francisco,
CA 94104 USA Tel [phone] ext. 200 Fax 1
415 374 8293 www.opengroup.org
Your Name Title Mobile [phone] GSM 44
7771 999999 a.person_at_opengroup.org
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The I3C Mission

• I3C develops and promotes global, vendor-neutral
  informatics solutions that improve data quality
  and accelerate the development of life science
  products.

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To Achieve the Mission..

• Conflicting forces must be balanced to succeed
• Free information exchange and IPR
• Regulatory compliance and operational efficiency
• Standardization and complexity
• The signs on how to proceed are not always clear

The I3C is not alone in these challenges!
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The Open Group Mission

• To drive the creation of Boundaryless Information
  Flow by

• Working with customers to capture, understand and
  address current and emerging requirements,
  establish policies and share best practices
• Working with suppliers, consortia and standards
  bodies to develop consensus and facilitate
  interoperability, to evolve and integrate open
  specifications and open source technologies
• Offering a comprehensive set of services to
  enhance the operational efficiency of consortia
  and
• Developing and operating the industry's premier
  certification service and encouraging procurement
  of certified products.

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Boundaryless Information Flow

• To achieve Boundaryless Information Flow an
  organization needs to put in place infrastructure
  services that bring information together and
  provide that information to those users and
  applications that need it.
• Boundaryless Information Flow represents a set
  of challenges that most companies have.
• The Open Group is tackling the problems
  represented by Boundaryless Information Flow and
  is the place in the industry to work on these
  issues.

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I3C and The Open Group

• By working together, the I3C can leverage The
  Open Groups work to achieve a vision of a
  Interoperable, Secure and dependable Informatics
  Infrastructure
• Opportunities exist for immediate benefit
• Architecture
• Security
• Directory

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The Open Group is ..

• A global consortium committed to delivering
  greater business efficiency by bringing together
  buyers and suppliers of information technology to
  lower the time, cost and risk associated with
  integrating new technology across the enterprise.

Information
Infrastructure

• Methods
• Best practices guides
• Practical guiding principles
• Frequently found issues and solutions

• Enterprise architecture method
• Best practices on business information directory
• Best practice for information delivery

Business

• Select and integrate standards
• Profiles of the standards
• Proof of concepts
• Certified products

• Overall gap and overlap reports
• Reports on alternative approaches
• Proof of concept reports

Technical
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Our Role

• Ensure requirements derived from real
  interoperability issues are driving standards
  (Customer view)
• Ensure technical direction of interoperability
  standards are addressing market needs (Supplier
  view)
• Enable peers to share best practice and learn
  from the experiences of others
• Enable networking with knowledgeable people who
  are making an impact on the technical direction
  of IT industry
• Provide a forum for IT standards with a focus on
  interoperability
• Build relationships with other consortia
• Deliver assurance of interoperability through
  certification and testing

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Delivering on the Roles
Customers Requirements Business Scenarios
Challenges Policies and best practice Case
studies and shared experience Guides Collaborativ
e authoring Tools and methodologies Adopt and
adapt Procurement Single organization or combined
Suppliers Solutions Through their
products Response to requirements Technical
direction Standards Adopt, adapt and integrate
specifications Technology Sponsor Open Source
developments Conformance to standards Established
through certification and testing
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Our Sponsors

• Sponsors provide over 300 billion worth of IT
  products world-wide annually
• Ship significant volume products branded by The
  Open Group

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Diverse Membership

• Members represent a wide range of company sizes,
  industries and public/private organizations
• Members have combined IT budgets of over 50
  billion annually
• For example

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Relations with Consortia and Other Organizations

• Austin Group
• Association of Interactive Media
• Bluetooth SIG
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Center for Internet Security (CIS)
• Data Interchange Standards Association
• Database Interoperability Group
• DCI
• DMTF
• DSML
• EEMA
• Free Standards Group
• Global Grid Forum
• GMD Fokus Group
• ICX Security
• IEEE PASC
• IEEE Standards Association
• IETF
• Internet Mail Consortium

• J Consortium
• Linux Standards Base
• MPLS Forum
• MWIF
• NCITS R1
• NAC
• NIST PCSRF
• OASIS
• OMG 
• OSGi
• POSC
• PCCA
• QoS Forum
• SAE
• SNIA
• SyncML
• Telecommunications Industry Association
• TMF
• UDI Consortium

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Services Continuum
Certification Testing

• Management Services
• Consortia Formation
• Operations
• Infrastructure Provision

• Strategy Services
• Business Scenarios
• Architecture development

• Collaboration
• Research
• Interoperability events
• Homesteading
• Research Innovation

• Certification Testing
• Program development
• Test development
• Certification Operations

• Standards
• Technical editing
• Consensus review process
• Publication

Standards
Collaboration Research
goals
StrategyServices
Management Services
time
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Specific Interaction Opportunities

• Architecture
• Security
• Directory

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Architecture

• An effective framework

Knowledgeable and professional practitioners
Adequate Commercial Off-The-Shelf tools
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The Enterprise Continuum
Architecture Continuum
Foundation Architectures
Common Systems Architectures
Industry Architectures
Organisation Architectures
Guides Supports
Guides Supports
Guides Supports
Guides Supports
SystemsSolutions
Industry Solutions
Organisation Solutions
Products Services
Solutions Continuum
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Enterprise ADM - Key Points
An iterative method Each iteration requires
decisions on Focus - enterprise coverage Time
horizon aimed at Architecture assets to be
leveraged assets from previous iterations assets
available elsewhere (other frameworks, system
models, vertical industry models, etc.) Decisions
made on practical assessment of resource /
competence availability value expected to accrue
to the enterprise
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Boundaryless Information Flow - Business Taxonomy
Security Policy

• Mobility Policy

Phone Books/Directories
Information Consumers
Management Organization
Brokers
Development Organization
Information Provider
Performance Service Level
Manageability Policy
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Boundaryless Information Flow - Technical Taxonomy
Qualities Qualities
Security Policy

• Mobility Policy

Application Platform
Information Consumer Applications
Management Utilities
Brokering Applications
Development Tools
Information Provider Applications
Performance SLAs
Manageability Policy

• Classes of Interfaces - formats and protocols

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A Level 2 Model
Qualities Qualities
Security
Mobility
Application Platform
Information Consumer Applications
Desktop Video Conference
Web Portal
information Access
Streaming audio / video
Mail
Phone / Fax
Directory Referencing/Dereferencing Naming Registr
ation Publish Subscribe Discovery
Application Message Format
Presentation Transformation Browser
services Portal and personalization Meta indices
Application Messaging
Application to application communications services
Languages Libraries Registries
Enterprise Appl Integration
Management Utilities
Brokering Applications
Development Tools
Monitors Executory Utilities Copy Managers
Business modeling tools Design
tools Construction tools Languages and Libraries
Information Brokers Application Integrators
Digital Signature Intrusion Detection Key
Management Firewall Encryption AAAC SSO
Information Access Transformation Mapping Query
distribution Aggregation Search File
services Web services
Info Format eForm services Instant messaging
services
Information Provider Applications
Desktop Video Conference
Web Portal
information Access
Streaming audio / video
Mail
Phone / Fax
Messaging/Event Brokering
Process/Workflow Control
Performance
Manageability
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Security
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Security our Vision

• Security is about achieving business objectives
  within applicable law and policy
• Managing risk
• Not merely preventing bad things
• Security creates protected systems with
  controlled perimeters
• A controlled perimeter is boundaryless where
  (and only where) it needs to be
• Security design is necessarily pervasive

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Security our Mission

• Bridge the gap between business objectives and
  traditional security technology
• Identifygaps in both understanding and technology
• Better understanding between buyers and suppliers
• Positioning within the Security Life Cycle
  Concept, Requirements, H-L Design, L-L Design,
  Implementation, Integration, Test
  Certification, Operation Maintenance,
  Obsolescence Succession.
• Develop collaborative activities with other
  consortia to avoid duplication of effort
  leverage best-of-breed solutions
• A big part of the problem is just defining
  exactly what problem were solving

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Directory Interoperability
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Working Together

• Wed like to invite the I3C to work with The Open
  Group to identify and establish standards and
  best practices in
• Boundaryless Informatics Architecture
• Security Policies and Risk Management practices
• Directory Interoperability

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In conclusion

• By engaging with other IT vendors and customers
  working toward a vision of Boundaryless
  Information Flow , the I3C can realize
• Faster and simpler identification of necessary
  interoperability, reliability standards for
  informatics
• Faster availability of necessary informatics
  standards in commercial practice

Faster and more efficient deployment of life
science products
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Thank You

• Any Questions?

44 Montgomery Street Suite 960 San Francisco,
CA 94104 USA Tel [phone] ext. 200 Fax 1
415 374 8293 www.opengroup.org
Your Name Title Mobile [phone] GSM 44
7771 999999 a.person_at_opengroup.org