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Subject: Charter Proposed New Statement of Purpose
Hi all, At the F2F @
CA-Ewing (March 3-5) the idea of clarifying and improving the charter Statement
of Purpose was discussed again with the idea of issuing a further charter
clarification with a revamped Statement of Purpose. I took the action of
attempting one more iteration for your consideration. Please feel free to
further word-craft, of course. Regrets. I
cannot attend this Thursday’s meeting due to family vacation. LATEST
ITERATION (let’s call it v1.2) It's
hard for different enterprises and domains to work together to in order to understand
and respond to their customers’ needs. SAF provides a collaborative
framework that enables diverse enterprises and knowledge domains to address
these issues through automation at lower cost and much more effectively. SAF is
a catalog-based, XML collaborative knowledge framework that is designed to
address these challenges by automating appropriate responses to changing
business conditions, integrating contributions from diverse domains such as
marketing, sales, and IT to provide competitive advantage. Note that SAF uses a
medical analogy in order to provide an easy-to-understand conceptual foundation
that many people understand, nothing more. The SAF framework has applicability
to multiple domains including IT, e.g., Cloud computing, service management,
governance, and security as well as business domains, e.g., energy,
eGovernment, financial, healthcare, and communications. In
Cloud computing, the chasm between the business and IT is significantly widened
due to the lack of context between cloud-provider and cloud-consumer. The SAF
TC considers Cloud computing to be an area where the value of existing and
developing standards could be significantly enhanced using SAF. In SAF, both consumer
and provider can collaborate in order to bridge the chasm by enabling
business-relevant conditions to enable meaningful business-relevant responses. LAST ITERATION (let’s call it v1.1): IT and business systems are usually well instrumented to provide a
wealth of information about the state of these systems. Human experts in
narrow, specific IT infrastructure or business system domains possess
substantial knowledge to bring remediate problems or bring them back to their
desired state. However, there is a significant challenge leveraging this
knowledge across these diverse domains. Current approaches are often manual, expensive, inflexible, and
error-prone. Failure to meet this challenge creates lost opportunities to
develop new and extend existing business, as well as the possible loss of
existing business through 'down time' or lower efficiency. There are also
significant operational and business-related costs that can affect an entire organization.
Cloud computing and other IT initiatives increase the risk and impact of these
challenges. SAF is a catalog-based, XML knowledge framework that is designed
to address these challenges by enabling both problem remediation and
optimization of the operational and business characteristics of complex
systems. The framework has applicability to both IT domains, e.g., cloud
computing, service management, governance, and security as well as non-IT
domains, e.g., energy, eGovernment, financial, healthcare, and communications. ORIGINAL FROM THE CHARTER AS IT NOW STANDS (let’s call it
v1.0): IT and business systems are usually well instrumented to provide
operators and managers with a wealth of information about the state of each of
these systems. Experts in these domains also possess substantial toolboxes of
remedial techniques to bring these systems and processes back online or to
their desired state. However, there often is a significant challenge in the
integration, interpretation, and analysis of this diverse state information followed
by the ability to act on that information. Failure to meet this challenge
impacts the organization through lost opportunities to develop new and extend
existing business, as well as the possible loss of existing business through
'down time' or lower efficiency. The continued drain on business and IT
resources also impacts the overall operational and business-related costs of
the organization. The aim of the Symptoms Automation Framework is to integrate
information and processes across the organization and/or cloud-enabled services
in a more holistic way by defining, enhancing, and maintaining a standard
XML-based framework that will enable the collection, detection, isolation, and
remediation/optimization of the operational or business characteristics of
complex systems with applicability to both IT and non-IT domains including
operational and service management, governance, and security. Thanks, Paul Paul Lipton VP, Industry Standards and Open Source Member, CA Council for Technical Excellence Phone (preferred number!): +1 215 539-2731 Mobile: +1 267 987-6887 Email: paul.lipton@ca.com THIS MESSAGE MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL, PRIVILEGED OR OTHER LEGALLY
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