Commitment to Open Standards

Open standards represent a common goal of advancing the adoption of standards that permit interoperability. Efforts to advance open standards are driven by companies, industry groups, government agencies, and individuals.

With a comprehensive, unified, and open data integration platform, Informatica is committed to developing and promoting open standards and is affiliated with many open standards organizations.

	OASIS is an international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) standards and protocols. The consortium produces more Web services standards than any other organization along with standards for security, e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries. For more information, visit http://www.oasis-open.org/.
	The Enterprise Grid Alliance is an open consortium focused on developing and promoting enterprise grid solutions. Informatica's membership reinforces the company's commitment to grid computing, which helps customers leverage existing hardware server assets to increase IT responsiveness and enhance data integration performance and cost-effectiveness. For more information, visit http://www.gridalliance.org/.
	The Object Management Group’s charter includes the establishment of industry guidelines and detailed object management specifications to provide a common framework for application development. Conformance to these specifications will make it possible to develop a heterogeneous computing environment across all major hardware platforms and operating systems. Implementations of OMG specifications can be found on many operating systems across the world today. For more information, please visit http://www.omg.org/.
	The Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) is a specification that describes metadata interchange among data warehousing, business intelligence, knowledge management and portal technologies. The OMG Meta-Object Facility (MOF) bridges the gap between dissimilar meta-models by providing a common basis for meta-models. If two different meta-models are both MOF-conformant, then models based on them can reside in the same repository. For more information, please visit www.omg.org/cwm.
	The Global Grid Forum (GGF) represents a community-driven effort for developing standards and best practices for distributed computing ("Grids" and "Met computing") including those specifically aimed at very large data sets and high performance computing. GGF has become a key point of coordination, information exchange, and collaboration for staff involved in large-scale R&D programs in the US, Europe, Canada, and Asia-Pacific. For more information, please visit http://www.gridforum.org/.
	The Web Services Interoperability Organization is an open industry effort chartered to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, applications, and programming languages. The organization brings together a diverse community of Web services leaders to respond to customer needs by providing guidance, recommended practices, and supporting resources for developing interoperable Web services. For more information, please visit http://www.ws-i.org/.
	The Integration Consortium is a non-profit industry body responsible for influencing the direction of the integration industry. Its members champion Integration Acumen by establishing standards, guidelines, best practices, research and the articulation of strategic and measurable business benefits.  The mission of the member-driven Integration Consortium is to establish universal seamless integration that engages industry stakeholders from the business & technology community. For more information, please visit http://www.eaiindustry.org/.
	The Supply-Chain Council is a global, not-for-profit trade association open to all types of organizations. It sponsors and supports educational programs including conferences, retreats, benchmarking studies, and development of the Supply-Chain Operations Reference-model (SCOR), the process reference model designed to improve users' efficiency and productivity. The Council is dedicated to improving the supply chain efficiency of its practitioner members. For more information, please visit http://www.supply-chain.org/.
	The SEI’s core purpose is to help others make measured improvements in their software engineering capabilities. In the SEI’s view, the best way to ensure security is to design software in a way that does not allow defects into software in the first place. As a college-level unit at Carnegie Mellon University, well known for its highly ranked programs in computer science and engineering, the SEI operates at the leading edge of technical innovation. Since 1984 the SEI has been identifying, developing, and advocating practices for designing high-quality software. The SEI emphasizes defect prevention through improvement of process and product quality during the early phases of system development. For more information, please visit http://www.sei.cmu.edu/.
	XML.org was formed and introduced in June 1999 by OASIS, the non-profit Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems, to minimize overlap and duplication in XML languages and XML standard initiatives by providing public access to XML information and XML schemas. Today XML.org has grown into a centralized portal and has emerged as a valuable and leading resource to technologists, developers and business people developing purpose-built XML languages. For more information, please visit http://www.xml.org/.
	The APICS Educational and Research Foundation fosters education and development in the field of resource management. By building working relationships between industry practitioners and academicians, the foundation is able to promote applied research on significant real-world industry issues. For more information, please visit http://www.apics.org/.