
This is a summary slide. There is more detail on each of these areas in the following slides.
The Open Group activities can be divided into these areas, each focussed on the vision of boundaryless information flow and the mission of driving it’s creation.
The Architecture Forum is highlighted since that is the group that develops TOGAF.
The Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) is a cross-industry metadata identification strategy designed to facilitate convergence and interoperability among e-business and other complex federal standards. The objective of the UDEF is to provide a means of real-time identification for Semantic equivalency, as an attribute to data elements within e-business document and integration formats.