Interoperability Clearinghouse

Interoperability Clearinghouse is a not-for-profit collaboratory of standards/industry groups, solution providers, testing/research organizations, and IT practitioners. The Mission of the ICH is to promote mechanisms for assuring the successful implementation of enterprise technology solutions. Our Vision is to contribute to society by enabling and encouraging; Adaptive, architecture-independent solutions to common IT challenges (including enterprise integration, knowledge management, and infrastructure security) Greater IT success rates through improved alignment, management of complexity and change, and communications between buyers and suppliers of solution components Our Guiding Principles are; Transparency in motives and influences Sharing of infrastructure knowledge for the common good Trustworthy, accurate, and timely contextualized information; Our Goals include the creation of measurable improvements in the IT capabilities of member organizations; Better alignment of architectures and components with key business drivers Better understanding of critical issues and solutions (including interoperability and security) Better intra- and inter-organizational collaboration for solving common problems and increasing competencies in critical technical areas Better leverage and reuse of lessons and innovations