Open Government Platform an alternative to MS, Oracle and IBM?

1. Open Government Platform
Vision
The vision for Open Governmental Platform (OpenGP) community (www.OpenGovernmentPlatform.org) in the governmental sector is:
 to create a real open source suite alternative to compete with Microsoft, Oracle and IBM proprietary enterprise suites
 to share the worldwide results from customers, suppliers and projects connected to a suite selection of open methods, frameworks
and open source products
 to create customers value faster and wit higher quality
 to create challenging and meaningful IT workplaces
The OpenGP community and governance rules
 The community will be governing within a community model where all information and code created within the community is
available under GPL v3 license (www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html).
 Will be govern by contributing governmental organization and suppliers
 OpenGP is a community of communities. It also includes a community to share and explore knowledge and code all participants.
 OpenGP is not inventing the wheel again, but is building on a selection of best of breed established communities for best
practices, methods, frameworks and software to streamline and increase sharing inside the governmental sector
 OpenGP is fully built on best of breed open source components/products which all are rated high by the international analysis
companies including Gartner.
 Liberty Alliance is the foundation for OpenGP
The OpenGP
 delivers a secure and integrated platform based on well proven open methodology, frameworks and technology with customers
and partners having the best skills to deliver and maintain critical governmental solution
 includes full business/work process and software life-cycle management from analyse, design, developing, deploy, maintain the
solutions
 is a multilingual solution, supporting all nationalities not only including the Nordic, and the European countries, but also the rest
of the world.
Liberty Alliance - The Foundation for OGP
The OpenGP uses Liberty Alliance as a foundation for all its work. The vision of Liberty Alliance is to enable a networked world based on
open standards where consumers, citizens, businesses and governments can more easily conduct online transactions while protecting the
privacy and security of identity information. This world, where devices and identities of all kinds are linked by federation and protected by
universal strong authentication, is being built today with Liberty’s open identity standards, business and deployment guidelines and best
practices for managing privacy.
Liberty Alliance Members work closely together to:
 Build open standard-based specifications for federated identity and identity-based Web services.
 Drive global identity theft prevention solutions.
 Provide interoperability testing.
 Offer a formal certification program for products utilizing Liberty specifications.
 Establish best practices, rules, liabilities, and business guidelines.
 Collaborate with other standards bodies, privacy advocates, and government
policy groups.
 Address end user privacy and confidentiality issues.

2. OpenGP operation modes
The OpenGP supports the following operation modes.
 Government cloud/cloud appliance
 Software as a Service
 Platform as a Service
The initial areas covered by the community
OpenGP platform community initially supports:
 Open Governance and Operation - ITIL (Freetil) – an open source community and ... that support your enterprise IT governance
and operations processes
o Open Governance (ITIL, ITframewoeks, Freetil) (Freecode)
o Open Operation – Best practices and open source tools that supports your enterprise IT operation (Freecode)
 Open Tools, Frameworks and Methods (Freecode, Acando, Commitment, Conduct)
o Open Enterprise Architecture (OpenGroup/TOGAF) – an open community that support your Enterprise Architecture,
Acando
o Open Information Management (Mike2) – an open community that supports your information management
methodlogy, Acando
o Open Test – Best practices for methods and open source tools that supports your enterprise test needs;
Freecode/Conduct/Acando
The initial collection of products for the OpenGP Technical Platform
The OpenGP technical platform provides you with open, integrated and identity centric secure enterprise solutions.
The OpenGP technical platform consists of the following products:
 Open Identity management, PKI and signing (OpenIDM , OpenAM and EJBCA)
 Open Enterprise Service Bus OpenESB/Glassfish)
 Open Enterprise Portal - OpenPortal/Lifeary
 Open Search – an open community that supports your enterprise serach (Lucid) , Acando
 OpenBusiness Intelligent – Jaspersoft (Acando) and Pentaho (Conduct)
 OpenECM /OpenWCM - Alfresco/Liferay
 OpenBPM – Intalio