• IT Governance Institute - http://www.itgi.org

    IT is essential to manage transactions, information and knowledge necessary to initiate and sustain economic and social activities. These activities increasingly rely on globally cooperating entities to be successful. In many organizations, IT is fundamental to support, sustain and grow the business.

  • WebServices and SOA - http://www.service-architecture.com

    A service-oriented architecture is essentially a collection of services. These services communicate with each other. The communication can involve either simple data passing or it could involve two or more services coordinating some activity. Some means of connecting services to each other is needed.

  • The ITIL and ITSM directory - http://www.itil-itsm-world.com

    The ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) consists of 7 sets: Service Support; Service Delivery; Planning to Implement Service Management; ICT Infrastructure Management; Applications Management; Security Management; The Business Perspective.

  • Institute for Enterprise Architecture Development - http://www.enterprise-architecture.info/index.htm

    What personal characteristics, knowledge, and skills are most commonly found in effective enterprise architects? Although not at all intuitive, several traits are even more important than knowledge of enterprise architecture.

  • The Zachman Institute for Framwork Advancement (ZIFA) - http://www.zifa.com

    The Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA) is a network of information professionals who understand the critical role of Enterprise Architecture in the ability of the enterprise to successfully participate in the global economy of the 21st century. To this end, the mission of ZIFA is to promote the exchange of knowledge and experience in the use, implementation, and advancement of the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture.

  • mission vision strategies - http://gerhard.hacker.at

    Gerhard Hacker - mission, vision & strategies eine umfassende Seite der Trends über die Jahre

  • The Open Group Architecture Forum - http://www.opengroup.org/architecture

    The Architecture Forum has developed and is evolving a comprehensive enterprise architecture framework to enable businesses to achieve the right balance between IT efficiency and business innovation, while also taking into consideration the constantly changing needs of the business environment. A certification program supports the framework.

  • OASIS - http://www.oasis-open.org

    OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. The consortium produces more Web services standards than any other organization along with standards for security, e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets.

  • The Telemanagement Forum - http://www.tmforum.org

    The TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) is a non-profit global organization that provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the management and operation of information and communications services. Our open membership of over 400 companies comprises incumbent and new-entrant service providers, computing and network equipment suppliers, software solution suppliers and customers of communications services. TM Forum has been contributing to the Information and Communications Services (ICS) Industry for over 15 years.

  • Basel II Risk Management - http://www.basel-ii-risk.com/Basel-II

    Basel II is an international initiative that requires financial services companies to have a more risk sensitive framework for the assessment of regulatory capital.

  • SOX compliance and ITSM - http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/service/article.php/3105771

    By pursuing compliance with SOX based on ITSM, which is based on the best practices defined in the IT information library (ITIL), CIOs can ensure the financial data the CEO and CFO are now required to sign-off on is auditable.

  • World-wide consortium of Internet vendord aiming to promote IPV6 - http://www.ipv6forum.com

    A world-wide consortium of leading Internet vendors, Research & Education Networks are shaping the IPv6 FORUM, with a clear mission to promote IPv6 by dramatically improving the market and user awareness of IPv6, creating a quality and secure Next Generation Internet and allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology, embracing a moral responsibility to the world.