The Open Group offers enterprise architecture tool

Donated by Capgemini, the TOGAF Customizer tool is a free, open source technnology based on the Eclipse Process Framework. Users can more easily align enterprise architecture practices with and develop organization-specific versions, Open Group said.

"One of the things that we wanted to do in The Open Group community was really to augment the traditional Open Group [publication] mechanisms with a tool that would allow a user of TOGAF to really pick up the TOGAF method" and customize it, said Mike Turner, enterprise architect at Capgemini.

Plugging into the Eclipse IDE, the tool contains TOGAF 9 content in a structured and editable form, including guidelines and checklists as well as materials accommodating the Architecture Development Method in the framework.  Users also can use the tool to integrate TOGAF with other enterprise architecture frameworks such as Zachman.

The tool is a desktop client that publishes HTML output that can be edited; it will generate a Web site for user reference.