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Subject: FW: [saf] Charter Proposed New Statement of Purpose
Below is a new version (1.3) of
the “Statement of Purpose”. Version 1.3: Human experts in specific IT
infrastructure and business domains possess substantial knowledge about prevention,
remediation, and optimization of systems. However, there is a significant
challenge in capturing, combining, and leveraging this siloed knowledge across domains. SAF is a catalog-based XML collaborative
knowledge framework that is designed to address these challenges by automating
appropriate responses to changing business conditions and integrating
contributions from diverse domains to provide competitive advantage. SAF
has applicability in IT and business including cloud computing, service
management, governance, security, energy, eGov, financial, emergency
management, healthcare, and communications. Cloud computing, in
particular, exacerbates the separation between consumer-based business requirements
and provider-supplied IT responses. SAF facilitates knowledge sharing
across these domains, allowing consumer and provider to work cooperatively
together to ensure adequate capacity, maximize quality of service, and reduce cost.
The SAF technical committee considers cloud computing to be an area where
the value of existing and developing standards could be significantly enhanced
using SAF. Version 1.2: 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. Version 1.1: 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. From: Lipton, Paul C
[mailto:Paul.Lipton@ca.com] 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. |
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