Open Group looks to Arabia

Shift Technologies has signed a franchise agreement to establish the Arabian operations of open standards and interoperability organisation, The Open Group, reports ITP.net.

The Open Group is a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium that focuses on the development of open standards and the support of programmes such as The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF).

The local franchise will operate as The Open Group Arabia, and will represent Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa providing localised access to TOGAF, to establish local forums to support programmes and promote global open standards.

Belarus mobile telecommunications operator Velcom has selected an active enterprise data warehouse from data warehousing and enterprise architecture company, Teradata, says Reuters.

"Bringing Teradata enterprise data warehouse technology to Belarus is an important step toward modernising Velcom's enterprise architecture. Faster and better understanding of market trends will help Velcom satisfy customers through the timely introduction of new services," saysYuri Koren, head of the IT division at Velcom.

Velcom is implementing a multi-node Teradata warehouse, running on a Linux operating system. With this technology investment, Velcom will gain a single view of its business and give employees instant access to business information.

UXC subsidiary Red Rock Consulting has acquired Sydney-based IT specialist consultancy, Glue, to broaden its service oriented architecture (SOA) offerings, states ARN.

Red Rock CEO, Jonathan Rubinsztein, says: “A key difference is they [Glue] bring to bear a very strong capability around the enterprise architecture and methodological layer. They have a lot of strength in that area and we have a lot of strength in the delivery area.”

Glue will be marketed under the Red Rock brand and the joint entity's head count expanded by 30 to 40 people within the next six months.