How The Open Group Enterprise Architecture Portfolio Approach Enables the Agi...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on leveraging a comprehensive standards resources approach for transforming businesses in a new era of agility and competitiveness.
How More Industries Can Cultivate A Culture of Operational ResilienceDana Gardner
A transcript of a discussion on the many ways that businesses can reach a high level of assured business availability despite varied and persistent threats.
A Tale of Two IT Departments, or How Governance is Essential in the Hybrid Cl...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct discussion on how two organizations have been improving their application’s performance via total performance monitoring and metrics.
Cloud Security Crosses the Chasm, How IT Now Goes to the Cloud for Better Sec...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how cloud security is rapidly advancing and how enterprises can begin to innovate to prevail over digital disruption by increasingly using cloud-defined security.
Internet of Things Brings On Development Demands That DevOps Manages, Say Exp...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect discussion on how continuous processes around development and deployment of applications impact and benefit the Internet of Things trend.
It’s up to the CIO and chief information security
officer to make security a board-level concern.
Breaches will happen, and organizations need
to start thinking beyond prevention alone. The
CIO and CISO will need to align with business
leaders to assume a vigilant monitoring
mindset. Data will provide the clues, but both
IT and the business are needed to effectively
detect and respond to attacks that slip past
the gates. Within the next four quarters, the
CIO and CISO had better have good answers
to the CEO’s questions about the myriad
new risks to data security. They should also
be able to display a detailed roadmap for
how they plan to aggregate the data needed
to monitor the breaches that do occur.
How The Open Group Enterprise Architecture Portfolio Approach Enables the Agi...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on leveraging a comprehensive standards resources approach for transforming businesses in a new era of agility and competitiveness.
How More Industries Can Cultivate A Culture of Operational ResilienceDana Gardner
A transcript of a discussion on the many ways that businesses can reach a high level of assured business availability despite varied and persistent threats.
A Tale of Two IT Departments, or How Governance is Essential in the Hybrid Cl...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct discussion on how two organizations have been improving their application’s performance via total performance monitoring and metrics.
Cloud Security Crosses the Chasm, How IT Now Goes to the Cloud for Better Sec...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how cloud security is rapidly advancing and how enterprises can begin to innovate to prevail over digital disruption by increasingly using cloud-defined security.
Internet of Things Brings On Development Demands That DevOps Manages, Say Exp...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect discussion on how continuous processes around development and deployment of applications impact and benefit the Internet of Things trend.
It’s up to the CIO and chief information security
officer to make security a board-level concern.
Breaches will happen, and organizations need
to start thinking beyond prevention alone. The
CIO and CISO will need to align with business
leaders to assume a vigilant monitoring
mindset. Data will provide the clues, but both
IT and the business are needed to effectively
detect and respond to attacks that slip past
the gates. Within the next four quarters, the
CIO and CISO had better have good answers
to the CEO’s questions about the myriad
new risks to data security. They should also
be able to display a detailed roadmap for
how they plan to aggregate the data needed
to monitor the breaches that do occur.
Accenture publishes its technology vision annually. It is a distillation of our extensive research over the course of the previous 12 months, the experiences of our research teams and the input of our clients. In it, we outline the emerging technology trends that forward-thinking CIOs will use to position their organizations to drive growth and high performance, rather than just focusing on cost-cutting and efficiency improvements.
Business leaders now accept that their organizations’ future success is bound up with their ability to keep pace with technology. CIOs have to play a key role in helping these business leaders recognize and seize the opportunities enabled by new trends—but the price of progress will have to be paid, along with new risks assumed.
We believe six technology trends will influence business over the next three to five years:
Context-based services. Where you are and what you are doing will drive the next wave of digital services.
Converging data architectures. Successfully rebalancing the data architecture portfolio and blending the structured with the unstructured are key to turning data into new streams of value.
Industrialized data services. The ability to share data will make it more valuable—but only if it is managed differently.
Social-driven IT. Realize that social is not just a bolt-on marketing channel. It will have true business-wide impact.
PaaS-enabled agility. The maturing platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market will shift the emphasis from cost-cutting to business innovation, supporting rapid evolution for business processes that need continuous change.
Orchestrated analytical security. Organizations will have to accept that their gates will be breached and begin preparing their second line of defense—data platforms—to mitigate the damage caused by attacks that get through.
How HTC Centralizes Storage Management to Gain Visibility, Reduce Costs and I...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on why bringing a common management view in to play improves problem resolution and automates resource allocation more fully.
How Big Data Generates New Insights into What’s Happening in Tropical Ecosyst...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how large-scale monitoring of rainforest, biodiversity and climate has been enabled and accelerated by cutting-edge, big-data capture, retrieval and analysis.
Intralinks Uses Hybrid Computing to Blaze a Compliance Trail Across the Regul...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how regulations around data sovereignty are forcing enterprises to consider new approaches to data, intellectual property, and cloud collaboration services.
Making the Shift to the Next-Generation EnterpriseCognizant
It's crucial for organizations to assess their next-generation strengths and weaknesses in light of their strategic priorities and then focus on the enablers that will prepare them for the future of work.
Accenture: Der Weg zur Social Enterprise – Best Practices für CIOsSalesforce Deutschland
Der Gedanke der Social Enterprises verändert den Umgang der Unternehmen mit ihren Kunden. Begleiten Sie Jörg Besier, Accenture Cloud Lead in ASG, und Daniel Le Jehan, wie Sie über Best Practices bereits heute den Weg zum Social Enterprise beschreiten können und wie das Salesforce Innovation Center die Kunden hierbei unterstützt.
Converged IoT Systems: Bringing the Data Center to the Edge of EverythingDana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on the rapidly evolving architectural shift of moving advanced information technology (IT) capabilities to the edge to support Internet of Things (IoT) requirements for operational integrity benefits.
Not long ago, if you asked an IT executive about transformation, there was a good chance you’d get a technology-centric response. You’d hear about consolidation and virtualization, power and cooling, security and availability. Today, the responses are different. This edition of Unleashing IT is all about transformation. Not technology change, but business change through the use of technology.
The Long Road of IT Systems Management Enters the Domain of AIOps-Fueled Auto...Dana Gardner
A discussion on how IT management technologies and methods have evolved to optimize and automate workloads to exacting performances and cost requirements.
Insights Success has shortlisted, “The 10 Most Trusted Networking Solution Providers, 2018” that are ensuring optimal network efficiency and security. Our shortlisted companies include, Turn-key Technologies, is a leader in networking, communications and security, a wireless semiconductor and system solutions company focusing on innovative, ultra-low power and high-performance products for next-generation wireless applications
Accenture Technology Vision 2013: The Latest IT Trends and Innovations. Every business is now a digital business, and every executive needs to be able to understand the implications of technology trends and innovations for his or her company and industry. Without this insight, the company will not be well positioned to achieve high performance.
The Accenture Technology Vision 2013 identifies seven IT trends shaping technology—and thus business—into the future, making it required reading for everyone in the C-suite.
Industry Moves to Fill Gap for Building Trusted Supply Chain Technology Accre...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast from The Open Group Conference on The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum and setting standards for security and reliability.
Accenture publishes its technology vision annually. It is a distillation of our extensive research over the course of the previous 12 months, the experiences of our research teams and the input of our clients. In it, we outline the emerging technology trends that forward-thinking CIOs will use to position their organizations to drive growth and high performance, rather than just focusing on cost-cutting and efficiency improvements.
Business leaders now accept that their organizations’ future success is bound up with their ability to keep pace with technology. CIOs have to play a key role in helping these business leaders recognize and seize the opportunities enabled by new trends—but the price of progress will have to be paid, along with new risks assumed.
We believe six technology trends will influence business over the next three to five years:
Context-based services. Where you are and what you are doing will drive the next wave of digital services.
Converging data architectures. Successfully rebalancing the data architecture portfolio and blending the structured with the unstructured are key to turning data into new streams of value.
Industrialized data services. The ability to share data will make it more valuable—but only if it is managed differently.
Social-driven IT. Realize that social is not just a bolt-on marketing channel. It will have true business-wide impact.
PaaS-enabled agility. The maturing platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market will shift the emphasis from cost-cutting to business innovation, supporting rapid evolution for business processes that need continuous change.
Orchestrated analytical security. Organizations will have to accept that their gates will be breached and begin preparing their second line of defense—data platforms—to mitigate the damage caused by attacks that get through.
How HTC Centralizes Storage Management to Gain Visibility, Reduce Costs and I...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on why bringing a common management view in to play improves problem resolution and automates resource allocation more fully.
How Big Data Generates New Insights into What’s Happening in Tropical Ecosyst...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how large-scale monitoring of rainforest, biodiversity and climate has been enabled and accelerated by cutting-edge, big-data capture, retrieval and analysis.
Intralinks Uses Hybrid Computing to Blaze a Compliance Trail Across the Regul...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how regulations around data sovereignty are forcing enterprises to consider new approaches to data, intellectual property, and cloud collaboration services.
Making the Shift to the Next-Generation EnterpriseCognizant
It's crucial for organizations to assess their next-generation strengths and weaknesses in light of their strategic priorities and then focus on the enablers that will prepare them for the future of work.
Accenture: Der Weg zur Social Enterprise – Best Practices für CIOsSalesforce Deutschland
Der Gedanke der Social Enterprises verändert den Umgang der Unternehmen mit ihren Kunden. Begleiten Sie Jörg Besier, Accenture Cloud Lead in ASG, und Daniel Le Jehan, wie Sie über Best Practices bereits heute den Weg zum Social Enterprise beschreiten können und wie das Salesforce Innovation Center die Kunden hierbei unterstützt.
Converged IoT Systems: Bringing the Data Center to the Edge of EverythingDana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on the rapidly evolving architectural shift of moving advanced information technology (IT) capabilities to the edge to support Internet of Things (IoT) requirements for operational integrity benefits.
Not long ago, if you asked an IT executive about transformation, there was a good chance you’d get a technology-centric response. You’d hear about consolidation and virtualization, power and cooling, security and availability. Today, the responses are different. This edition of Unleashing IT is all about transformation. Not technology change, but business change through the use of technology.
The Long Road of IT Systems Management Enters the Domain of AIOps-Fueled Auto...Dana Gardner
A discussion on how IT management technologies and methods have evolved to optimize and automate workloads to exacting performances and cost requirements.
Insights Success has shortlisted, “The 10 Most Trusted Networking Solution Providers, 2018” that are ensuring optimal network efficiency and security. Our shortlisted companies include, Turn-key Technologies, is a leader in networking, communications and security, a wireless semiconductor and system solutions company focusing on innovative, ultra-low power and high-performance products for next-generation wireless applications
Accenture Technology Vision 2013: The Latest IT Trends and Innovations. Every business is now a digital business, and every executive needs to be able to understand the implications of technology trends and innovations for his or her company and industry. Without this insight, the company will not be well positioned to achieve high performance.
The Accenture Technology Vision 2013 identifies seven IT trends shaping technology—and thus business—into the future, making it required reading for everyone in the C-suite.
Industry Moves to Fill Gap for Building Trusted Supply Chain Technology Accre...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast from The Open Group Conference on The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum and setting standards for security and reliability.
The UNIX Evolution: An Innovative History reaches a 20-Year MilestoneDana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how UNIX has evolved in the 20-year history of UNIX and the role of The Open Group in maintaining and updating the standard.
The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum Leading the Way in Securing Global Su...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast focusing on the upcoming Open Group Conference and the effort to develop standards to make supply chains secure, verified, and trusted.
The Open Group Digital Practitioner Effort Provides Guidance to Ease Digital ...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how The Open Group is closing the gap between IT education, business methods, and what it takes as a culture to succeed over the next decade.
DevOps and Security, a Match Made in HeavenDana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct discussion on the relationship between DevOps and security and exploring the impact of security on compliance, risk, and auditing.
Transcript of World Wide Technology (WWT) TEC37 webinar focused on deploying and managing Windows 10, including what tools will be needed to deploy OS patches and updates. Panelists include Wendell Layne, WWT’s end-user computing product manager, Steve Adams, partner technology strategist for Windows and devices from Microsoft; Dan Huber, a mobility solutions architect for WWT focused on digital experience; Kelly Ryan, a solutions architect for WWT focused on virtualization and Darrin Dennis, a solutions architect for WWT focused on all things Windows server infrastructure related.
Topics covered include:
- How to effectively manage physical and virtual desktops as well as mobile devices without the need for disparate systems
- New ways to deploy OS updates using Windows Insider Preview, Windows Current Branch and Current Branch for Business
- How to use patch management to lock down Windows 10
- VDI opportunities new to Windows 10
For Dell’s Quest Software, BYOD Puts Users First with IT’s BlessingDana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how Quest, a Dell company, leverages BYOD and VDI to improve user productivity, application support, and security.
During this presentation, you will discover:
• How to fill this gap with innovative cloud-based accelerator services
• How to quickly deploy new digital capabilities to support business objectives
• How companies are winning through in-store customer experience
Peter Coffee (VP Platform Research at salesforce.com) keynote on harnessing disruption in Mobile, Social, and Big Data technologies using cloud services and predictive tools
Using Product Box to Build the Complete DeveloperLuke Hohmann
In 2006 I was asked to give the keynote at the Better Software Conference on "The Complete Developer". It was a perfect opportunity to use the Innovation Game® Product Box to with senior leaders of Silicon Valley Companies like Google and EMC to identify the three core sets of attributes that they consider most valuable in a developer: technical competence, customer driven and business acumen.
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how a major law firm has adopted desktop virtualization and BYOD to give employees more choices and flexibility.
How HPE ‘Moments’ Provide A Proven Critical Approach To Digital Business Tra...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion with HPE Pointnext Services experts as they detail a multi-step series of “Moments” that guide organizations on their transformations.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024
The Open Group Marks 25 Years of Working Together To Make Successful Standards
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The Open Group Marks
25 Years of Working Together
To Make Successful Standards
Transcript of a discussion on the 25th anniversary of remarkable achievements in the global
technology standards arena by The Open Group.
Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Download the transcript. Sponsor: The Open
Group.
Dana Gardner: Hi, this is Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and
you’re listening to BriefingsDirect.
Way back in 1996, when web browsing was novel and central processing still ruled the
roost of enterprise IT, The Open Group was formed from the merger of the Open
Software Foundation and X/Open.
This October marks the 25th anniversary of remarkable achievements in the technology
standards arena by The Open Group. Beginning with a focus as the publisher of the
single UNIX specification technical standard and steward of the UNIX trademark, the
organization has grown to more than 850 members in over 50 countries -- and it leads
the field and technology standard services, certifications, research, and training.
Stay with us now as we explore how standards like UNIX and TOGAF evolved to
transform business and society by impacting the world as a digital adoption wave swept
over human affairs during the past quarter century.
Here to commemorate The Open Group’s achievements and
reminisce about the game-changing, earth-shattering, and
culture-evolving advances of standards-enabled IT, please
welcome our guests. We’re here with Steve Nunn, Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) at The Open Group. Welcome,
Steve.
Steve Nunn: Thank you, Dana. I’m glad to be here.
Gardner: We’re also here with David Lounsbury, Chief
Digital Officer (CDO) at The Open Group. Welcome, David.
David Lounsbury: Thank you, Dana. I’m happy to be here,
too.
Nunn
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Gardner: And we’re also here with Jim Hietala, Vice President Business Development
and Security at The Open Group. Welcome, Jim.
Jim Hietala: Hi, Dana. I’m glad to be here.
Gardner: Great to have you all. Steve, even after
25 years of clearly breathtaking changes across
the IT landscape, why is The Open Group’s original
mission as salient as ever?
Nunn: In a nutshell, it’s because the world needs
open standards. That has been our heritage --
open systems, open standards. We added
conformance to open standards, importantly, along
the way. And it’s never been more needed than it
is now.
When we began, there was a crying need for more
choice among customers and more interoperability among different software
applications. The main proprietary vendors just weren’t necessarily delivering that
choice. So, it’s really because customers need standards.
You know, they help suppliers, too. They help all of us in our day-to-day lives. That’s
why we’re still needed at 25 years on -- and we’re looking forward to a bright next 25
years.
Gardner: David, sometimes you have to pull people kicking and screaming into
standards. It’s like what your mom told you about eating spinach. It’s for your own good,
right?
Lounsbury: Right.
Gardner: But we couldn’t get to the current levels and breadth of technology use without
them.
Meeting the need for standards
Lounsbury: That’s right. And, you know, Steve mentioned the need for standards --
and the technology does drive the standards. At the time when we were founded, there
were relatively few CPU manufacturers, and now there has been an explosion in
compute power and a radical fall in the cost of networking, and that’s led to lots of new
ways of doing business. People are looking for guidance on how to do that, how to
restructure their organizations, and on which technology platforms they need to use.
That need is fueling a swing back to seeking new standards.
Hietala
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Gardner: Jim Hietala, with your focus on security, 25 years ago we couldn’t have
imagined the things we’re facing around security today. But without people pulling
together, we wouldn’t be able to buttress our supply chains. How has security in
particular been enabled by standards?
Hietala: It’s interesting to look back at the past because in the world of security today
you hear about two predominant themes. One is zero trust, and if you look back at some
of the work the Jericho Forum was doing inside of The Open Group 10 to 12 years ago,
those were the origins of what we’re calling zero trust in the security industry today.
The whole notion of perimeter security was failing. We needed to move security controls
closer to the data and to secure people’s access within what were previously considered
secure networks. The Jericho Forum seeded that discussion a number of years ago.
The other big issue out there today is supply chain security, with some of the supply
chain security attacks in the last 18 months. And here again an initiative inside of The
Open Group that was formed some 10 years ago, the Open Trusted Technology Forum
(OTTF), that was brought to us by the US government, was focused on addressing the
security of the hardware and software for the components that go into the IT systems
being procured.
And again, we’ve had some groundbreaking work inside of The Open Group on the topic
of security that’s highly relevant today, even though the environment has changed
tremendously in the last 25 years.
Gardner: Yes, as Steve mentioned, this is a long game. Sometimes it takes decades for
the value of these efforts to become fully evident to all the players.
I’m old enough to remember there used to be quite a few UNIX® standards or variants.
The process behind pulling them together for the benefit of everyone -- both the users
and ultimately the vendors as well -- became a cookie cutter model for creating
standards generally.
Steve, how did the evolution of UNIX standards in particular become opportunity to do
much more?
Nunn: We converted what it meant to be a UNIX system, from being derived from a
certain code base, to being based on a standard. The key is it wasn’t just one standard.
It was a lot of standards. There were 1170 different specs that changed what it meant to
be a UNIX system. It was then all about conformance with the standard and how the
system operates in connection with the standard -- rather than derived from a particular
code base.
It was gathering a set of standards together. Our history since then -- this idea of a
standard of standards -- has evolved and developed to make standards approachable
and useful for solving business problems.
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Fundamentally, at The Open Group, all of our work on standards starts with trying to
solve a business problem. A set of standards makes solutions more applicable, more
approachable, for implementation. And increasingly nowadays we add things like
developing some code alongside it. That’s the essence of it. We were transforming the
first kind of UNIX standard, the Spec-1170, set of standards.
Gardner: David, what a success UNIX has become since back when we thought this
was going to be just a way for workstations to interoperate better on a network. It
became the foundation for Linux, BSD, and for the MacOS. It went from workstations to
servers and then dominated servers. It seems that there’s no better validation for the
success and power of standards and what we’ve seen with UNIX over the past 25 years.
Lounsbury: Yes, no question about it. I come from the
minicomputer revolution, where I started in my career,
and basically that whole industry got run out of business
by UNIX systems. And now we have it, as you said, on
our laptops. I’m running it on my laptop right now. It’s on
all our smaller systems. Embedded processes all tend to
run a variant of things that look like the UNIX standard.
If you have to create something quickly, and you want to
create something that’s robust and will run predictably,
you pick something that follows the UNIX standard.
Gardner: And how did you get people to rally to such
standards? There’s more to this than technology. This is
also about a culture of cooperation. There is a human behavioral aspect to it.
How has The Open Group been able to pull so many different threads together and
repeat this? You’ve been doing this as well for TOGAF, with enterprise architecture, with
Open Agile, ArchiMate, FACE, and reference architectures like IT4IT, among many
others.
What is behind this ability to govern so many factions into a common goal?
Staying power of staying neutral
Lounsbury: There are a couple of dimensions to it, and Steve’s already mentioned one
of them. He talked about the end-customers. We recognized the value of neutrality -- not
only neutrality of technology, but also the other dimension of neutrality, which is the
balance between the buy-side and the supply-side.
There are many things called standards activities that are really altered to one side or
the other. We found the balanced viewpoint: balanced across the technologies, balanced
across the demand, which is the essential key to having stable buy-in. Now, of course,
Lounsbury
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that must be built on rock-solid processes that respect all the parties, all the way
through. And that’s how our formal governance comes in.
Nunn: That’s right, you’ve hit the
nail on the head. The magic
happens when the customers drive
this. They have things that need to
be achieved through standards.
The second point David made is key, too. The process has been essentially stable --
evolved slightly over the years -- but it’s a tried-and-tested process; a consensus
process of one company, one vote. It’s allowed us to create trust.
That’s the word I want to want to bring out here: trust in the process, trust in the equity of
the process; that all parties get to have their say. That has essentially stood us in good
stead. We’ve been able to apply that process, and that same approach in governance,
across many different industries and business programs.
Gardner: I suppose another key word here, Jim, is cooperation. Because while The
Open Group is a steward and has been involved with governance, there’s a tremendous
army of people who contribute the things that they have learned and know and then
bring to all this.
How important has it been to encourage that level of cooperation? It’s astonishing how
many people are involved with these standards.
Hietala: It’s critical to have that cooperation, and the work, frankly, from the members.
The Open Group brings the staff who help initiate standards initiatives and run them per
our processes and our governance in a fair, open, and transparent way.
But it’s the members who bring the subject matter expertise in whatever area we’re
talking about. In the case of The Open Group FACE Consortium, it’s the defense
contractors and government folks administering some of the programs who bring subject
matter expertise that helps us produce business guides, procurement guides, and the
standards themselves, as well as the reference software.
We have a saying that joining a standards effort such as The Open Group is like joining
a gym. You have to not just get the membership -- you have to show up and do the
work, too.
Lounsbury: Both of Steve and Jim mentioned confidence. I think that the confidence we
project in the process, both the formal governance and the ability to bring people
together, is the real differentiator of why The Open Group has stood the test of time.
We see many examples of groups that get together and say, “Well, why don’t we just get
together and solve this problem?” And what we often find is that they don’t because they
lack stability. They can’t project stability. They don’t have the endurance. The
The magic happens when the customers
drive this. They have things that need to
be achieved through standards.
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government is a good example of where they then come back to The Open Group and
say, “Hey, can you help us make this a sustainable activity that will have the impact over
time that we need?”
Gardner: Another key word here then is journey, because you never get to the
destination, which is actually a good thing. You have to be self-sustaining. It has to be
ongoing, the peeling back of the onion, the solving of one problem that perhaps creates
others: and then again and again.
Is it that never-ending part of the standards process also a strength, Steve?
Nunn: Yes, because around the world the various industries we work with don’t stand
still. There’s a new problem coming up every day, as you alluded to, Dana, that needs
solving.
When a group gets together to solve an initial problem through a standard, they realize
there’s much more there. I can think some recent examples, such as the Open
Subsurface Data Universe (OSDU) Forum, which is in the oil and gas industry. They
originally got together to focus on subsurface issues. And now they’re realizing that that
a standards approach can help them in many other areas of their business as well.
The problems don’t stand still, and technology
evolves the world. Disruptive events happen, and
we need to adjust and update the standards
accordingly.
Gardner: Is there a pattern to the standards you’ve chosen to foster? You obviously
have been very successful with enterprise architecture and TOGAF. You’ve gone to
modeling, security, and reference architectures for how IT organizations operate.
What’s the common denominator? Why these particular standards? Is there an order to
it? Is there a logic to it?
One business need leads to another, and another
Nunn: The common denominator is something mentioned earlier, which is a business
need. Is there a business problem to be solved, whatever industry that might be?
Over the years, The Open Group can trace one activity where a group of companies got
together to solve a business problem and then it led to several other forums. The
example we usually use is The Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment
(FACE) Consortium in federal avionics. They recently celebrated their 10th anniversary.
That effort led directly to work in the sensor architecture space, and strangely led to our
Open Process Automation Forum. Members saw the great work that was being done in
the FACE Consortium, in terms of a modular method that creates an architected
The problems don’t stand
still, and technology
evolves the world.
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approach. The past saw a situation where one aircraft, for example, is funded completely
separately, with no reuse of technology or parts, and where everything was done from
scratch with one prime contractor and subs.
And we had some other members fortunately who saw from the oil industry how a set of
industry standards had emerged. They said, “We have the same issues in our industries.
We want a standardized approach, too.”
As a result, the Open Process Automation Forum is doing great work, transforming the
way that systems are procured.
These successes form a traceable
connection between an industry that has a
problem to solve and the established best
ways of doing it. They come together and
work on it as an industry, and through
tried-and-trusted processes, rather than
trying to beat each other in the
marketplace to the first magic solution.
Gardner: Jim, it sounds like the need for a standard almost presents itself to you. Is that
fair?
Hietala: As an outsider, you might say, “What in the world do control systems users
have in common with the military avionics industry?” But the takeaway is with each
iteration of this new standards initiative our staff learned better how to support the
formation and operation of a set of best practices around an operating standards
initiative. The members learn as well. So, you had folks from Exxon Mobil at a
conference speaking about how they transformed their industry, and the light bulb went
off. Others brought the idea back from the oil and gas industry.
Then we at The Open Group helped them identify similar uses in some other industries:
metals and mining, pulp and paper, utilities, water utilities, and pharmaceuticals – they
all use the same set of control system equipment. They all had similar problems until we
were able to bring it into a standards initiative. And once you have that sort of support
behind an initiative, the suppliers don’t have a choice but to pay attention, get involved,
and help drive the initiative themselves.
Gardner: David, it’s clear that just presenting a standard isn’t the only factor for success.
You must support it with certifications, additional research, events, and forums that
continuously bring people together in an atmosphere for collaboration and ongoing
training. You’ve not only broadened the scope of what The Open Group does in terms of
the standards, but also a wider set of functions that augment and support those
standards.
Lounsbury: That’s right. Both Jim and Steve mentioned the process of discovery by the
members, or by potential members, and the value of standards. That’s a critical
[Businesses] come together and work
on it as an industry, and through tried-
and-trusted processes, rather than
trying to beat each other in the
marketplace to the first magic solution.
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component because the natural instinct is for people to go off and try to solve things on
their own, or to get a magic bullet competitively.
But part of the art of what we do is help
members understand that only through
collective action, only through a wide
agreement, is there going to be a
sufficient response to solve the business
problem and provide a center of gravity for
the vendors to invest in building the systems that embrace and employ the standards.
And so, a part of building that continuing confidence is knowing that there will be trained
people who know how to use the standard effectively. There will be systems that
conform to the standard, and you can get together with peers in your industry to find out
about what’s going on at the cutting edge of technology.
And, frankly, even the social networking, just meeting people face to face builds
confidence that everybody is working toward the common objective. All of these things
are critical supporting pieces that give people confidence to invest in solutions and the
confidence to specify that when they purchase.
Gardner: It seems like a big part of the secret sauce here is mutual assured success for
as many of the people in the ecosystem -- on all sides of the equation -- as possible. It
sounds simple, but it’s really hard to do.
Nunn: It is, Dana. And you need champions, the people who are passionate about it in
their own organizations.
For me, the single biggest differentiator and reason for The Open Group’s success so far
is that we have a very respected set of certification programs and processes. The
importance of certification is that it gives standards some teeth. It gives them meaning.
We’re not just publishing standards for the sake of it, and nobody uses them. They’re
being used by trained people. There might also be certified products out there, too.
Certification helps turn it into an ecosystem, and that in turn gets people more engaged
and seeking to evolve it and be part of the movement. Certification is key because of the
teeth that it gives the standards.
Gardner: Well, the custom is when we have an anniversary to do toasts. Usually, toasts
are anecdotal or remembrances. Are there any such moments in hindsight that ended up
being formative and important over the past 25 years?
Cheers to 25th
anniversary highlights
Nunn: For years, we had heard that UNIX was going away, that it’s not relevant
anymore. I think the work we’ve done has proven that’s not the case.
Only through collective action, only
through a wide agreement, is there
going to be a sufficient response to
solve the business problem.
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Another highlight or breakthrough moment was when we got our TOGAF practitioner
certification program up and running. That spread around the world to a large number of
individuals who are certified and who are promoting the value of the standard itself.
We’ve created a community over the years, even though that community is harder to
bring together right now in the pandemic days. But certainly, for the vast majority of our
history, we have brought people together; these people are familiar with each other, and
new people come in.
The face-to-face element is special.
Somebody recently made a great
point about the effect of the
pandemic. And the point was that you
need the personal interactions in
developing standards. Standards are
about contributing intellectual
property, but also about compromise. It’s about discussing what’s best for the relevant
industry. And that’s hard to achieve in a virtual world.
You need the dinners, the beers, whatever it might be to build the social networking and
up the trust for the individuals in these situations who are often from competing
companies. The way that we have encouraged the community and built up what we’ve
often called “The Open Group family” over the years is a key factor for us.
Gardner: David, what are some anecdotes that come to mind that highlight the first 25
years?
Lounsbury: I’m going to pick up on Steve’s theme of face-to-face meetings. One that
stands out in my mind was the first face-to-face FACE Consortium meeting, which was
at a vendor building on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
And, I’ll be honest, there was a ton of skepticism, both from the government agencies
and from some of the larger vendors, that this could ever possibly come together. And
because we got the people together and we had a few enthusiastic champions -- not
necessarily the people who started things out -- but the people who saw the value of
cooperative industry engagement -- we got it together. And 60 companies walked out of
that room saying, “Yeah, this might actually work.” And from then on -- that was over 10
years ago -- it changed the way avionics are produced. And now it has inspired changes
in other industry verticals as well.
So, what we sometimes call The Open Group way differentiates how we create
standards from what had gone on in other standards activities that they had been
engaged in.
Gardner: Jim, what’s your toast to the past quarter-century?
You need the personal interactions in
developing standards. Standards are
about intellectual property, but also
about compromise. It’s about discussing
what’s best for the relevant industry.
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Hietala: At little bit higher level, I point to the fact that The Open Group has grown to
more than 850 member organizations from dozens of countries. The specific things that
resonate with me and made an impact over the years are engaging with all those
members from the many different countries and nationalities at events we’ve held.
That and to getting to over 120,000 TOGAF-certified people, which is a huge milestone
and was definitely not an overnight success. TOGAF was tens of years in the making, so
those to me are indicative of where we’ve come in 25 years.
Gardner: It seems that the Tower of Babel isn’t particularly high when it comes to
information technology (IT). The technology is a common denominator that cuts across
cultures and boundaries. There really is a common world stage for IT.
IT – The universal language
Hietala: I think that’s true. There’s probably work that goes on inside of standards
organizations like The Open Group, that isn’t necessarily seen, that enables that.
There’s a fair amount of work translating the products of The Open Group into various
native languages, such as Brazilian Portuguese, French, or Spanish, or Chinese. Those
often happen at the ground level by volunteers, typically from the countries that want to
enable adoption of what they see as a highly valuable standard.
Lounsbury: The profusion of technology you mentioned has driven a fundamental
change in the way people run their businesses. And The Open Group is very much at
the forefront of thinking about how that’s best going to happen.
What does it mean to architect your business going forward when you have all of these
new management techniques, all of this new technology that’s available at very low cost
causing these fundamental shifts in how you interact with your customers and in your
ecosystem? That’s currently on the forefront of the minds of many of the groups working
inside The Open Group.
We all know there’s a new management book a
day nowadays. That’s why there’s a growing
demand for stability of guidance in this world.
How to do these new digital ways of working?
We look to standards bodies to come out with
that guidance. Our members are working on it.
Gardner: I suppose the past is prologue. And back when I first got involved with
enterprise IT in the late 1980s, this type of technology transformation was still fringe in
business. But it’s become more than mainstream, it’s become dominant.
We talk about digital transformation. We could probably just drop digital, now it’s
transformation, period. Given the depth, breadth, and importance of IT to business and
society -- where do we go from here?
How to do these new digital
ways of working? We look to
standards bodies to come out
with that guidance.
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How do you take the success you’ve had for the past 25 years and extend that to an
even grander stage?
Standards provide frame for future transformation
Nunn: As Dave said, organizations have to transform. They’re looking for structure.
They’re looking for tools that help go through this transformation. It can’t happen soon
enough. The pandemic has been an accelerator.
But they need a framework, and standards provide that framework. That doesn’t mean
exactly the same approach for all standards. But I don’t think we need to fundamentally
change the way standards are built.
We’ve talked about our legacy of trust and the
tried-and-tested. We need to evolve how
things are done as we go forward, to fit with
the speed with which transformation needs to
occur and the demands that individual
organizations in their industries have.
But we definitely now have a very solid bedrock for evolving, and the transformation
aspect of it is key because people see standards as helping them transform. Standards
give them something to work with when so much all around is changing.
Gardner: Jim, how do you take the success you’ve had with digital standards and
expand the use of the methodologies?
Hietala: We’ve seen that the practices, business model, and the approach to taking a
big industry problem and solving it through the development of standards has been
proven to work. Companies in need of those standards efforts are comfortable looking at
The Open Group and saying, “You’re an honest broker to be in the middle of this and
make something happen.”
For example, a member from our OSDU Forum looked at what was happening there and
saw a similar need inside of his company. It happened to be in the energy industry, but
he saw a problem around how to measure and manage their carbon footprint. They
examined the approach used in the OSDU and said, “That’s what we need over here to
determine what our carbon footprint is.”
And what they found quickly in looking at that customer need was that that’s a universal
need. It’s certainly not just an energy industry issue. Cement companies, large auto
manufacturers, and many others all have that same need. They would all be well served
by having a standard effort that produces not just standards but a reference software
platform that they could build from that helps them measure and manage any carbon
footprint. The approach has evolved a bit. We’re able to support now open-source
We need to evolve how things
are done as we go forward, to
fit with the speed with which
transformation needs to occur.
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initiatives alongside of standards initiatives. But fundamentally our consensus-oriented
standard process has not changed.
And that’s the way we build these initiatives, rally industry support, and take them from
looking at the customer business problem to producing standards and business guides.
The way we address the issues hasn’t changed.
Gardner: David, if you can apply the lessons learned at The Open Group to even more
challenging and impactful problems, that sounds worth doing. Is that part of your next 25
years?
Lounsbury: Yes, it certainly is. There’s a couple of dimensions to it. There’s the scale in
number of people who are engaged. And we’ve given plenty of examples of how we
went from a core standard like UNIX or IT4IT or TOGAF and applied those same proven
techniques to things such as how you do avionics, which led to how to do process
control systems, which led to how to do subsurface data. That has all led to a
tremendous expansion in the number of organizations and people who are engaged with
The Open Group.
The other dimension of scale is speed. And that is something where we need to keep
our standards up to date, and that has evolved. For example, we’ve restructured our
architecture portfolio to have more modular content. That’s something we’re going to be
looking at across all of our core standards, including how we link them together and how
we make them more cohesive.
We’re looking at reducing the friction in
keeping standards up to date and improving
the pace so they’re competitive with those one-
off, two-people-writing-a-book kinds of
guidance that characterizes our industry right
now.
Gardner: For those who have been listening and are now interested in taking an active
role in open standards, where can they go? Also, what’s coming next, Steve?
Nunn: Yes, we’ll have some anniversary celebrations. We have a great event in
October. We’re doing a moving global event over a 24-hour period. So, a few hours
hosted in each of several locations around the world where we have offices and staff
and significant membership.
We also have an ever-growing number of active meetings in our groups. Most of them,
because of the pandemic, have been virtual recently. But we’re starting to see, as I
mentioned earlier, the eagerness for people to get together face-to-face again when, of
course, it’s safe to do so and people feel comfortable to do so.
And we’ll be looking at not just what we’ve achieved but also looking at how we make
the next steps. A big part of that relates to the work we’ve done with governments
We’re looking at reducing the
friction in keeping standards up to
date and improving the pace so
they’re competitive.
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around the world. A good example is the government of India, which recently published
a standard called IndEA, based on our TOGAF Enterprise Architecture standard.
It’s being used to fundamentally transform government services, not just in the national
government of India, but in various states there. And then other countries are looking at
that work. We also have work going on with the International Telecommunication Union
(ITU) in healthcare and digital services for citizens.
We’re doing a lot of work with governments to make a real difference to people’s lives as
citizens, in countries that may need to catch up with some of the more developed
countries. They’re using our standards and the work groups we’ve put together to get up
to speed.
For me, that’s an exciting part of our future: The
difference we can make in people’s daily lives.
Gardner: And, of course, a lot of this information
is on your website, www.opengroup.org. Any other resources that people should be
aware of?
Lounsbury: Yes, all of our standards are free to download from our library on our
website. You can obviously find how to register for events on the website, too. At the
Forum level, there’s good information about each Forum that we’ve been working on.
There’s always a contact form associated with each of the Forum webpages so you can
leave your details and someone from our team will get in touch and tell you how to get
involved.
Gardner: I’m afraid we’ll have to leave it there. You’ve been listening to a sponsored
BriefingsDirect discussion on 25 years of remarkable achievements in the technology
standards arena by The Open Group.
And we’ve learned how standards like UNIX and TOGAF evolved to transform business
and society, impacting us all over the world as a digital adoption wave swept across
human affairs. So a big thank you to our panel. We’ve been here with Steve Nunn, Chief
Executive officer at The Open Group. Thank you so much, Steve.
Nunn: Thank you very much, Dana. It’s been a great discussion.
Gardner: And we’ve been joined by David Lounsbury, Chief Digital Officer at the Open
Group. Thank you, sir.
Lounsbury: You’re welcome, Dana.
Gardner: And lastly, Jim Hietala has been with us. He’s vice President Business
Development and Security at The Open Group. Thank you, Jim.
Hietala: Thank you, Dana.
That’s an exciting part of our
future: The difference we can
make in people’s daily lives.
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Gardner: And a big thank you as well to our audience for joining this BriefingsDirect
commemoration of technology standards successes discussion.
I’m Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Your host throughout the
series of BriefingsDirect discussions sponsored by The Open Group.
Thanks again for listening, please pass this along with your business community, and do
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