Capgemini Architect Elected Vice Chair of Open Group Forum
Capgemini to take key role in enabling interoperability
2 February 2006
At the Open Group’s IT Architecture Practitioners Conference in January, Capgemini’s Dave van Gelder was elected European Vice Chair of the Architecture Forum. The Open Group is a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, whose role is to capture industry best practices, facilitate interoperability and provide certification. Its mission is described as enabling “boundaryless information flow.”
This appointment is the latest development in a relationship that began several years ago and was further strengthened last autumn when Capgemini became a Platinum Board Member of the Open Group.
The Architecture Forum of the Open Group has developed and is evolving a comprehensive, globally recognized enterprise architecture framework “to enable businesses to achieve the right balance between IT efficiency and business innovation.” Specifically the Forum brings together customers, vendors, consultants, governments and academia to work on open standards such as:
- TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework): A comprehensive architecture framework and methodology which enables the design, evaluation and implementation of the right architecture for an enterprise.
- TOGAF Certification: An assurance program providing four classes of certification: Certified, Tool Support, Training and Professional Services. It is used by architecture service providers, tool vendors and individual enterprise architects.
- IT Architect Certification: Supporting the establishment of a skills and experience-based IT Architect Certification program, that provides a foundation for trust between suppliers and customers; and collaborating with other leading standards bodies to make IT architecture a professional discipline.
- Architecture Tools: Promoting the availability of effective tools for enterprise architecture.
Said Ron Tolido, Capgemini’s Chief Technology Officer for Northern Europe and Asia Pacific and Governing Director of the Open Group: “We are excited with the trust that the Open Group members have shown with this election and we are sure that the excellent capabilities of Dave van Gelder — together with Capgemini’s leadership in architecture — will further boost the forum’s quest in enabling boundaryless interoperability between businesses.”
