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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]
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 10:44 PM
To: saf@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [saf] 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.

 



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