Acknowledgements

This document was prepared by The Open Group IT4IT™ Forum. The Open Group gratefully acknowledges the leadership and contributions of the following individuals (where appropriate, arranged by elected officers, followed by alphabetical order by organization affiliation) in the development of The Open Group IT4IT Standard, Version 3.0.

For the company name of each individual included here, we endeavored to list the employer affiliation they had at the time they contributed to the standard.

Lead Architects, Version 3.0

The Open Group gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their contributions to the IT4IT Standard, Version 3.0.

IT4IT Core Standard Standing Committee topic leaders:

  • Lars Rossen, Micro Focus, Chair of the IT4IT Core Standard Standing Committee

  • Philippe Geneste, Accenture

  • Sylvain Marie, Accenture

  • Richard Aarnink, Achmea

  • Guido de Jong, Achmea

  • Mark Luchtmeijer, Achmea

  • Jason Thurmond, Boeing

  • Dan Warfield, CC and C Solutions

  • Rob Akershoek, DXC

  • Satya Misra, HCL Technologies

  • Etienne Terpstra-Hollander, Micro Focus

  • Erik van Busschbach, Micro Focus

  • Michael Fulton, Nationwide

  • Stephanie Ramsay, Raytheon Technologies

  • Mark Bodman, ServiceNow

  • Michelle Supper, ServiceNow

  • Sue Desiderio, Invited Expert

ArchiMate® Model of the IT4IT Reference Architecture Work Group topic leaders:

  • Kees van den Brink, ServiceNow, Chair of the ArchiMate Model of the IT4IT Reference Architecture Work Group

  • Martin Tax, DAIN

  • Søren Hansen, Micro Focus

  • Lars Rossen, Micro Focus

  • Etienne Terpstra-Hollander, Micro Focus

Active Participant Contributors

In addition to the Lead Architects above, The Open Group gratefully acknowledges the following individuals who contributed by regularly attending the live face-to-face quarterly members-only meetings or live virtual weekly meetings of the IT4IT Forum and providing content, use-cases, models, GitLab® merge requests, or votes on decisions during discussions of iterative drafts of the IT4IT Standard, Version 3.0:

  • Sri Srinivasan, Accenture

  • Lars Kristian Larsen, BusinessNow

  • Jan Stobbe, Capgemini

  • Dave Hornford, Conexiam

  • Didier Beyens, DXC

  • Ben Noordzij, DXC

  • Roan van Helten, DXC

  • Karel van Zeeland, DXC

  • Andrew Platt, Fujitsu

  • Prafull Verma, HCL Technologies

  • David Morlitz, IBM

  • Sukumar Daniel, ING Bank

  • Xavier Mayeur, ING Bank

  • Soumajit Das, Micro Focus

  • Søren Hansen, Micro Focus

  • Peter Vollmer, Micro Focus

  • Altaz Valani, Security Compass

  • Jeannine McConnell, ServiceNow

  • Sam Courtney, Sparx Services North America

  • Charles Betz, University of St. Thomas

  • Chris Madden, ValueFlow

  • Luke Sorensen, ValueFlow

IT4IT Forum Steering Committee

The Open Group gratefully acknowledges the leadership of these IT4IT Forum Officers who were in office at the time the standard was approved after Company Review:

  • Rob Akershoek, DXC, Forum Co-Chair

  • Satya Misra, HCL, Forum Co-Chair

  • Etienne Terpstra-Hollander, Micro Focus, Forum Vice-Chair and The Open Group Governing Board Member

  • Linda Kavanagh, The Open Group, Forum Director

  • Lars Rossen, Micro Focus, Chair of the IT4IT Core Standard Standing Committee and Chair of The Open Group Governing Board

  • Jan Stobbe, Capgemini, Co-Chair of the IT4IT Guidance Standing Committee

  • Andrew Platt, Fujitsu, Co-Chair of the IT4IT Guidance Standing Committee

  • Michael Fulton, Co-Chair of the IT4IT Training and Certification Standing Committee

  • Sylvain Marie, Co-Chair of the IT4IT Training and Certification Standing Committee

  • Prafull Verma, HCL Technologies, IT4IT Adoption Standing Committee and The Open Group Governing Board member

  • Stephanie Ramsay, Raytheon Technologies, Chair of the Strategy to Portfolio Work Group and The Open Group Governing Board member

  • Dan Warfield, CC and C Solutions, Chair of the IT4IT Product Lifecycle Management Standing Committee

  • Mark Bodman, ServiceNow, Chair of the IT4IT IT Reference Operating Model Work Group

  • Kees van den Brink, ServiceNow, Chair of the ArchiMate Model of the IT4IT Reference Architecture Work Group

Reviewers

The Open Group gratefully acknowledges the reviewers below who submitted written comments or otherwise participated in comment resolution during The Open Group Company Review process or during the draft development process of the IT4IT Standard, Version 3.0 or the Snapshot of the IT4IT Reference Architecture, Version 3.0: Managing Digital Excerpt [S210]. In addition, we thank those who gave significant feedback in content reviews held at live or virtual members-only meetings:

  • David Stefferud, Accenture

  • Antonio diPerna, Bank United

  • Leonard Wiens, Beniva Consulting

  • Enoch Andrade, CC and C Solutions

  • Dave Hornford, Conexiam

  • Myles Suer, Dell Technologies (Boomi)

  • Alain Lord, Desjardins

  • Justin Mann, Digital Business Consulting, LLC

  • Trey Harris, ExxonMobil

  • Rosemary Peh, Hawaiian Electric Company

  • Varun Vijaykumar, HCL Technologies

  • Emmanuel Amamoo-Otchere, Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd.

  • James Doss, IT Management & Governance, LLC

  • Andreas Hartmann, Leipzig University of Applied Sciences

  • Steven Jarman, Micro Focus

  • Ben Rabau, Micro Focus

  • Gerben Verstraete, Micro Focus

  • Muhammad Suleman, Microsoft

  • David Gilmour, Mundo Cognito Ltd.

  • Miranda Gidderon, NASA SEWP

  • Fei F. Peng, Oracle Corporation

  • Ronald Israels, Quint

  • John Wagemaker, Quint

  • Kevin Kaiser, Raytheon Technologies

  • Matthew Kehret, Raytheon Technologies

  • Brian Moore, Raytheon Technologies

  • David Mosko, Raytheon Technologies

  • Chris Armstrong, Sparx Services North America

  • Andrew Josey, The Open Group

  • David Lounsbury, The Open Group

  • Dave Favelle, ValueFlow

Previous Versions

The Open Group gratefully acknowledges The Open Group IT4IT Forum members past and present for developing the previous versions of the IT4IT Standard. Their names can be found in the Acknowledgements pages of the IT4IT Reference Architecture, Version 2.0 [C155] and Version 2.1 [C171].

The Open Group gratefully acknowledges these members of The Open Group – all employees of DAIN sro. – for the provision of and/or technical support on the ArchiRepo tool which allowed multiple member authors to simultaneously collaborate on building the ArchiMate model of the IT4IT Reference Architecture, as well as for their guidance in the usage of the ArchiMate modeling language:

  • Roman Hak

  • Leo Mates

  • Martin Tax

Elected Officers

The Open Group gratefully acknowledges those past and present members of the IT4IT Forum who have served as its member-elected officers (Chairs, Co-Chairs, and Vice-Chairs) since its inception. In alphabetical order:

  • Rob Akershoek

  • Mark Bodman

  • Chris Davis

  • Michael Fulton

  • Satya Misra

  • Stephanie Ramsay

  • Etienne Terpstra-Hollander

  • Erik Witte

IT4IT Forum Member Organizations

An up-to-date list of Forum members can be found at: http://www.opengroup.org/it4it-Forum.