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The
Open Group’s Approach to Certification
The Open Group’s approach is Making
standards work®. The organization has extensive
experience and a long track record in defining and evolving
standards, building consensus, and developing best practices
as well as operating certification programs and providing
certification services to other consortia. The Open Group
ensures that its certification programs are based on industry
best practices and clear and well-defined certification policy
and processes for achieving and maintaining certification.
Being technology- and vendor- neutral, The Open Group provides
the industry with reliable assurance of conformance to standards,
and serves as international guarantor of interoperability.
Benefits of Certification
One of The Open Group’s main objectives for developing certification programs
is to simplify IT procurement.
Through user and industry participation, The Open Group has produced product
standards reflecting market requirements as an aid to procurers and established
certification programs to provide assurance of conformance and interoperability.
Buyers of certified products:
- Get reliable assurance of conformance to standards,
and inteoperability
- Minimize need for conformance testing
- Simplify bid analysis, and reduce procurement document
complexity, cost and risk associated with procurement
Suppliers of certified systems:
- Show their commitment and demonstrate that they stand
behind their products, which gives confidence to the buyers
- Get access to a pool of major buyers who specify that
the products they buy must be guaranteed to conform to
the specifications
How
to Have Your Product Certified
The product certification process consists of several
easy-to-follow steps as stated in the certification guide
for each program. Please review the guidelines specific to
each certification program:
How
to Become a Certified IT Architect
To learn more about how to become a Certified IT Architect,
please review the following:
How
to Become a Certified IT Specialist
To learn more about how to become a Certified IT Specialist, please review the following:
How
to Become a Certified TOGAF™ Practitioner
To learn more about the specific steps of the relevant
certification process, please review our quick
guides:
Certification
Registers
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Certification
Programs
IT Architect Certification
The Open Group's IT Architect Certification program is the premier, global certification
program for certifying skills and experience in the IT architecture community.
Based on the proven best practices in the industry, it sets an independent,
industry-wide standard for IT Architects and creates a foundation for trust
between suppliers and customers.
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IT Specialist Certification
The Open Group IT Specialist Certification program is designed to verify that professionals have the qualities and skills needed to enable the effective development, implementation and operation of IT solutions. Based on proven best practices, the global, vendor-neutral ITSC certification helps employers and clients put the right person on the job.
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COE Platform
The Common Operating Environment (COE) Platform
certification covers UNIX®,
POSIX® and Linux® based systems. The program was launched in response
to the DISA decision to transition DII COE certification to the industry.
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CORBA®
The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA® 2.3) certification
program assures compliance with specifications developed by Object
Management Group (OMG) for object technology use, management, interworking, and
interoperability.
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LDAP Certified
The LDAP Certified program guarantees conformance of directory servers to
version 3 of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
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NASPL
The North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL) Standards Initiative (NSI) Certification and Verification Program provides formal recognition of the conformance of a business practice or technology to an NSI Best Practice or Technical Standard by a lottery, lottery industry vendor, or retailer.
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POSIX®
POSIX® Certified by IEEE and The Open Group certifies
products to the 2003
edition of IEEE 1003.1™-2001, “Standard for Information Technology Portable
Operating System Interface (POSIX),” which incorporates the IEEE 1003.1
Corrigendum. The POSIX® standard defines a set
of fundamental services needed for the construction of portable application programs.
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SIF
The Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) Certification Program was developed
and is operated by The Open Group on behalf of the Schools Interoperability
Framework Association (SIFA). It focuses on educational software applications
and validates conformance to the SIF Specification.
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S/MIME Secure Messaging
The S/MIME Secure Messaging certification program identifies
organizations and individuals that are able to support the
deployment of
secure e-mail systems in accordance with The Open Group S/MIME
Secure
Messaging Architecture, together with an appropriate training
course and
materials.
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TOGAF™
The TOGAF certification program demonstrates that products and tools support
enterprise architects based on TOGAF ADM, a comprehensive, open method for enterprise
architecture.
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UNIX®
UNIX® certification program guarantees compliance with Single UNIX® Specification,
which provides a powerful open platform for the development, implementation and
management of mission-critical computer systems.
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WAP
The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) certification program
for clients and servers, which was developed and is operated
by The Open Group, certifies conformance to the WAP 2.0
specifications published by the Open Mobile Alliance™(OMA).
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