South African to head up Architecture Forum of The Open Group

Paul van der Merwe, COO of Real IRM, has been elected as Chair of the Architecture Forum of The Open Group. The Architecture Forum is the body that owns and develops TOGAF, the industry-leading enterprise architecture framework.

The Architecture Forum has 304 member organisations including IBM, SAP, HSBC, Capgemini, Bank of Montreal, Sasol, Eskom, PWC and Accenture - 65% of the votes for the Chair of the Architecture Forum were casted in favour of Paul.