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ITANA is a professional organization of I.T. Architects (Enterprise Architects, Infrastructure Architects et al) who work in higher education. This group is focused on:

• professional development
• tools and tricks of the trade
• forming working groups on topics of interest
• producing common frameworks, diagrams, whitepapers
• increasing the understanding about the role of architects in the enterprise and
• providing support and outreach

You can see our charter here:ITANA Charter.  For more information about how to join ITANA, see our document here: How To Join ITANA.  IMPORTANT: Please Join the Educause CG to take part in the email discussions and to get the news and hear about upcoming events.

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Next Call

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Minutes from previous calls

Face2Face Meetings

Next Face 2 Face:  EDUCAUSE 2007 - October in Seattle. Note: we now have a date and time for our meeting: October, 25 2007 4:55PM to 6:10PM

Past Face 2 Face Meetings:

Face-to-face meeting at Columbia University in New York, NY on May 22nd, 2007.

• AGENDA: Is posted here: Face 2 Face

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CURRENT ACTIVITIES

See the Future Activities page for laundry list of possible next steps.

Architecture Review Board Implementations

SOA

• Best of Breed SOA Tools
• SOA Governance
• Version Management, SLAs, Data Management (what happens when interfaces change)
• SOA models--What SOA is and is not

Taxonomy of Pain - what are the EA Pain Points and how have the different groups addressed them.

Enterprise Architecture Facets

• study of architecture implementations and maturity in various higher education
• effectiveness of EA on the enterprise (see EA Facets)
• Peer directory

Data Management issues and best practices

EDUCAUSE Presentation on Enterprise Architecture: What is it and why you should care

Your ideas here...   Future Activities

Organizational Activities

ITANA Charter
How To Join ITANA
Getting Started with the Shibboleth-enabled Wiki

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