The Open Group Architecture Forum [1] delivers business value through architecture ecosystems
The mission of The Open Group Architecture Forum is to advance The Open Group’s vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™ [2], for and between enterprises, through a set of programs that focus on all architectural aspects of this objective. These include:
- Providing broad and deep leadership to the EA community
- Validating, publishing, fostering, and maintaining best practices for EA
- Developing, organizing, researching, and publishing thought leaders in EA
- Initiating and managing programs and projects to support these activities
At this conference, attendees will learn about:
- How to deliver business value through architecture ecosystems
- Discover how establishing a trustworthy architecture, IT best practices, and certified professional communities [3] to reinforce them, can increase the integrity and the dependability of your enterprise IT and business solutions.
The Open Group ArchiMate® Forum [4] optimizes the modeling language for enterprise architecture.
The Open Group ArchiMate® Forum enables member organizations to contribute to the convergence needed to reach the next level of professional development in the field of Enterprise Architecture. Members [5] actively support the use and dissemination, and lead the development of, the ArchiMate specification, and:
- Exchange best practices about the usage of ArchiMate concepts and viewpoints

- Disseminate best practices within the ArchiMate community
- Propose improvements on the ArchiMate language
- Propose improvements and extensions on ArchiMate viewpoints
- Propose useful functionality for tools supporting ArchiMate