The Open Group, a software vendor consortium, has established a program that assesses the skills of IT architects - both individuals and organizations - toward accreditation and vendor-neutral certification. David Rubenstein reports this development for SD Times, citing the attributes measured.

This certification will assess individual proficiency in producing IT architectures and experience with various types of systems and application architectures as well as hardware and software platforms. Applicants ability to communicate effectively and lead teams also will be evaluated, as will their ability to use business requirements and modeling techniques in developing IT architectures. Skills in defining solutions to meet functional and nonfunctional requirements will also be tested.

"Whether you're hiring or contracting with a consultant, you can say, 'I want someone with vendor-neutral certification,'" explained Allen Brown, CEO of The Open Group.

Brown said that applicants can seek certification directly from this organization, or they can receive certification from third-party programs that have been accredited by The Open Group. "Organizations with a large body of in-house architects might want their program certified, and then they can do their own certification of their individual architects," Brown explained to Rubenstein. Such groups could then test for additional qualifications, as long as The Open Group's criteria were met in the process.

The Open Group also administers a program called TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), which provides certification for practitioners of the group's architecture framework, Rubenstein reports.

The Open Group, to whose governing board Sun belongs, is a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flow will enable access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability.

The Open Group defines Boundaryless Information Flow as "a shorthand representation of access to integrated information to support business process improvements." Infrastructures that provide Boundaryless Information Flow include open standard components used to provide services in an extended enterprise combining multiple sources of information for the secure delivery of "...information whenever and wherever it is needed, in the right context for the people or systems using that information." [...read more...]

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