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In a candid interview with Arun Kant from CIOReview, Sparx Systems' CEO Geoffrey Sparks highlights how Enterprise Architecture has become an imperative for survival in the ever-changing and globalized corporate landscape.

CIOReview has also included Sparx Systems in their '20 Most Promising Enterprise Architecture Technology Providers 2016' list, resulting from a robust selection process actioned by a highly qualified panel of domain experts. The in-depth interview with Geoffrey Sparks is the featured article in this month's edition of CIOReview, where Geoffrey discusses the Sparx Systems tradition of continual development of the Enterprise Architect platform, while maintaining the highly competitive price-point that enables affordable outfitting for all project stakeholders.

Geoffrey Sparx, Founder and CEO, Sparx Systems

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The CIM Users Group European Meeting will be held during June 1-3 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

According to the CIM Users Group website, the event will "... focus on how to use the CIM to create and support the data-driven utility."

For more details regarding the CIM Users Group meeting, please visit the event website.

Sparx Systems has supported the development of open standards, including the CIM, making available licenses of Enterprise Architect for the purpose of developing the CIM standard.

For more details how Sparx Systems supports open standards development, please visit our website.

The CIM Users Group (CIMug) is a subgroup of the UCA International Users Group, to provide a forum in which users, consultants, and suppliers can cooperate and leverage the IEC CIM international standards to advance interoperability across the utility enterprise.

The Common Information Model (CIM) is an abstract information model that provides data understanding through the identification of the relationships and associations of the data within a utility enterprise. This model which is maintained and developed in Enterprise Architect supports the exchange of data models and messages and increases the ability to integrate applications both within the enterprise and with trading partners. The CIM Users Group is focused on helping its members obtain the benefits of adapting IEC TC57 modeling standards for all utility operations on a global basis.

These include IEC 61970 – For power system modeling and energy utility data exchange including EMS, topology, wires, SCADA, etc.

IEC 61968 – For power system modeling related to DMS, assets, work, GIS, metering and application messaging.

IEC 62325 – Modeling for energy markets with support for both North American, European and other markets under consideration.

For the first time, the CIMug will meet in Australia to address the use of the CIM standards in Australia, New Zealand, and other Asian countries. This meeting will be held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)

Date: Feb 25-27, 2014
Venue: Melbourne, Australia

As they come to hand there will be further details available at the website http://cimug.ucaiug.org/default.aspx