Guides
The Open Group Guides are supporting documents. They provide advice and best practice on using and/or adopting Open Group standards and other standards.
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Open FAIR™ Tool with SIPmath™ Distributions: Guide to the Theory of Operation
This document defines the algorithms that can be used to produce an acceptable implementation of the Open FAIR™ Risk Analysis (O-RA) standard, a standard of The Open Group.Learn More -
The Open Process Automation™ Business Guide
Learn MoreThis Business Guide expresses the motivation and vision for a standards-based, open, interoperable, and secure process automation architecture as a business imperative for both users and suppliers of industrial control systems.
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TOGAF® Series Guide: The TOGAF Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model (III-RM): An Architected Approach to Boundaryless Information Flow™
This is a TOGAF® Series Guide. It addresses the TOGAF Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model (III-RM) in terms of its concepts, an overview, and its detailed taxonomy.Learn More -
SOSA™ Business Guide, Version 0.8
The SOSA Business Guide is intended for use by all stakeholders in the acquisition, deployment, modernization, and sustainment of sensor systems that support Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR).Learn MoreThis Guide is valid through April 30, 2018 only.
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TOGAF® Series Guide: Value Streams
This is a TOGAF® Series Guide. It addresses how to identify, define, model, and map a value stream to other key components of an enterprise’s Business Architecture. This document supports development of a TOGAF Business Architecture.Learn More -
TOGAF® Series Guide: Business Scenarios
This is a TOGAF® Series Guide. It describes the Business Scenarios method, which is a technique to validate, elaborate, and/or change the premise behind an architecture effort by understanding and documenting the key elements of a Business Scenario in successive iterations.Learn More -
TOGAF® Series Guide: The TOGAF® Technical Reference Model (TRM)
This is a TOGAF® Series Guide. It describes the TOGAF Technical Reference Model (TRM), including the core taxonomy, graphical representation, and the detailed platform taxonomy.Learn More -
TOGAF® Series Guide: Using the TOGAF® Framework to Define and Govern Service-Oriented Architectures
This is a TOGAF® Series Guide. It provides guidance on how the architect can use the TOGAF 9.1 standard to develop, manage, and govern Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).Learn More -
A Pocket Guide to the ArchiMate® 3.0.1 Specification
This is the Pocket Guide to the ArchiMate 3.0.1 Specification, an Open Group Standard. It gives a concise introduction to the ArchiMate language.Learn More -
ArchiMate® 3 Certification Self-Study Pack, 2nd Edition
SAMPLE ONLY – THE FULL PRODUCT IS AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE FROM THE OPEN GROUP STORE (B175).Learn MoreSample copies of the Study Guides are available to download.