At MEGA we understand that our customers require solutions that support standards. We are proud to be part of the community that is setting the standards for the 21st century. MEGA is a firm believer in standardization and is eager to bring its contribution to standards specifications as well as to adopt them in its future product releases. Below are just some of the standards bodies we contribute to:
Standards and Industry Forums
ABILab
ABI Lab is the center for research and development of technologies for Banks supported by the Association Banks of Italy (ABI). It encourages the cooperation among banks, financial negotiators, technological partners and institutions.
The ABI Lab mission is to take out a measurable economic value from bank processes applied technologies. ABI Lab nominate itself as a supporting operative tool for the analysis of advantages derived from the use of technologies in bank processes.
Thanks to ABI LAb the Bank can make an autonomous and competitive purposed use of technologies with the aim of maximizing the performance of internal processes and creating new products and services for customers. ABI Lab works meets and confronts the skills of several banks and technological partners, with the purpose of creating new knowledge from the singular competences and know-how. With the support of partners ABI Lab can realize new analysis, models, experimentations and projects.
MEGA is an active member of ABILab since January 2006.
AMRAE
AMRAE – Association pour le Management des Risques et des Assurances de l’Entreprise- is the French chapter of the FERMA – Federation of European Risk Management Associations – at the European level and the IFRIMA - The International Federation of Risk and Insurance Management Associations – at the international level.
The AMRAE aims to widen and raise the culture of Risk Management to the risk management and insurance community by developing and promoting innovative solutions and techniques and supporting risk managers in their profession.
MEGA is a member of AMRAE since January 2008.
French website
BPTrends
BPTrends is the primary source of business intelligence for the global community of business executives and process change practitioners focused on business process management. Industry thought leaders provide analysis and opinion on trends, directions and best practices relating to all aspects of business process change, including strategy, architecture, redesign, automation and human performance. BPTrends is the most comprehensive, in-depth business process information site devoted to educating and informing the market, urging managers to look at the full range of business process opportunities and solutions available.
CeTIF - Centro di Tecnologie Informatiche e Finanziarie
The Research Centre on Information and Financial Technologies - CeTIF - was established in 1990 by the Catholic University of Milan.
CeTIF mostly investigates technological and organizational innovation in the financial and banking industries. It develops studies on the adoption of innovative ICTs and its results and impacts on processes and organizational structures.
Established by many important founders such as the Bank of Italy, the Italian Exchange, the Italian Bankers' Association, today CeTIF works with many of the largest credit institutions in this country. These institutions are the key actors involved in the promotion of technological innovation as a business lever.
IFACI
Founded in 1965, IFACI – Institut Français de l’Audit et du Contrôle Internes – is the French chapter of the international association IIA – Institute of Internal Auditors.
IFACI gather 3500 auditors from 600 public and private industries. The French association aims to represent the internal auditing profession, promote its development and support internal auditors.
As part of the IIA, IFACI benefit from a worldwide network of 120 000 internal audit professionals in more than 160 countries.
MEGA is a member of IFACI since January 2008.
itSMF
The IT Service Management Forum (itSMF) is the only internationally recognised and independent organisation dedicated to IT Service Management. It is a not-for-profit organisation, wholly owned, and principally operated, by its membership.
The itSMF is a major influence on, and contributor to, industry “best practice” and Standards worldwide, working in partnership with a wide range of governmental and standards bodies worldwide.
Formed in the UK in 1991, there are now national chapters in an ever-increasing number of countries.
MEGA is an active member of itSMF organization in several countries since 2005.
Object Management Group (OMG)
Since 1989, The Object Management Group has been "Setting The Standards For Distributed Computing" through its mission to promote the theory and practice of object technology for the development of distributed computing systems. Its goal is to provide a common architectural framework for object-oriented applications based on widely available interface specifications.
Within the OMG, MEGA is working within several areas. With regard to the Meta Object Facility (MOF), MEGA is acting as a reviewer of the specification for the purpose of making the MEGA Suite MOF compliant. In the area of IT Asset Management, MEGA is a co-submitter (with SUN, UBS and Adaptive) of a proposal to address the issues involved in mapping knowledge management for IT assets. Finally, MEGA is working within groups focusing on the mapping of UML and XML in order to ensure that a workable standard emerges.
TeleManagement Forum (TMF)
The TM Forum provides the state of the art framework for building a sustainable business architecture for all telecom players.
Using its enterprise modeling expertise, MEGA International aims to work with the TM Forum to deliver a robust model-based approach for the telecom market. This activity will benefit from standardization of business modeling languages undertaken at the OMG (Object Management Group) where MEGA is a contributing member.
MEGA is now, as part of their membership, contributing to the TM Forum teams that develop the eTOM, the TM Forum process based framework, and the SID, the system information framework of the TM Forum, as part of its modeling solution. MEGA customers will benefit from the rich content provided by the TM Forum in the context of MEGA’s powerful and effective modeling environment.
The Open Group
The Open Group is an international vendor and technology-neutral consortium that is committed to delivering greater business efficiency by bringing together buyers and suppliers of information technology to lower the time, cost and risk associated with integrating new technology across the enterprise.
With its proven certification methodology and conformance testing expertise, The Open Group is an international facilitator in delivering the interoperability that single organizations require to help ensure independence.
MEGA supports the OpenGroup "Boundaryless Information Flow" initiative and its underlying TOGAF methodology. MEGA Enterprise Architecture framework provides the best solution to implement the OpenGroup recommended approaches.
