Graham Morgan presented a paper on Geospatial Service Architectures and the relationship of geospatial services to enterprise-wide IT platforms. The paper provided a definition of GIS in the context of enterprise architecture with illustrations from the Federal Enterprise Architecture Geospatial Profile and presented a model of the provision of collaborative geospatial capabilities for enterprise use.
The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™ will enable access to integrated information, within and among enterprises, based on open standards and global interoperability. Online at http://www.opengroup.org/
