New Enterprise Computing Platform. Over the past few years, we have witnessed
the birth, evolution and use of a number of changes, each of which has the ...
New Enterprise Computing Platform Over the past few years, we have witnessed the birth, evolution and use of a number of changes, each of which has the potential to change fundamentally the way we engage with one another. These include: Mobile, Social (both Social Networks and Social Enterprise), Big Data, the Internet of Things, and Cloud Computing. The Open Group is forming a new – as yet unnamed – forum, specifically designed to advance The Open Group vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™ by helping enterprises to take advantage of these convergent technologies. This open meeting will discuss the impact that they will have, and the work that the new Forum will do to help enterprises to use them. We are now witnessing the emergence of a new platform for enterprise computing. Social, cloud, and mobile computing and big data are no longer experimental. Enterprises should be able to use them easily, and as a matter of routine. We need a computing platform that exposes their capabilities in a standard way. We do not want a mess of competing products that do the same thing but have different interfaces and will not work with each other. We want interoperable and plug-replaceable platform components to enable rapid and manageable development of effective business-oriented software. The Open Group is well placed to help the new platform emerge with the necessary standards. It has an established Cloud Work Group that is addressing a major part of the problem space, and others of its Work Groups and Forums are doing relevant work, such as the Security and Jericho Forums (including work on Secure Mobile Architecture), the SOA Work Group (as service orientation is an established principle in the use of the new technologies), the Semantic Interoperability Work Group (whose work facilitates the effective use of data), and the QLM Forum (whose work is related to the Internet of Things). The open meeting will consider the new technologies and their impact, review relevant existing work within The Open Group, and look at what further work areas should be addressed to set the role and technical direction of the new Forum.
09:00
Welcome and Introductions
09:10
The Changing IT World Presentation reviewing the new technologies.
09:30
Impact on the Enterprise Group discussion of how enterprises can benefit from the new technologies
09:50
Cloud Computing Review of the work done by the Cloud Work Group and discussion of its relevance to the new platform
10:10
Social Computing Discussion of social computing and its use by enterprises
10:30
Break
11:00
Security and Mobility Review of the work done by the Security and Jericho Forums and discussion of its relevance to the new platform
11:20
Information Review of the work of the Information Architecture project of the Architecture Forum, the QLM Forum, and the Semantic Interoperability Work Group, and discussion of its relevance to the new platform
11:40
Service Orientation Review of the work done by the SOA Work Group and discussion of its relevance to the new platform
12:00
Gap Analysis Discussion of what new initiatives are needed (e.g. accessing data, analytics, etc.) to set the technical direction
12:20
The Way Forward Summary of the conclusions for the role and technical direction of the new enterprise computing platform Forum
12:30
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