Open Group logo ANI | Updated: Apr 29, 2021 14:34 IST Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 29 (ANI/NewsVoir): The Open Group, the vendor-neutral technology consortium, today announced the adoption of the ArchiMate® Specification, a standard of The Open Group, in the publication of India's ICT Reference Architecture for Smart Cities (ICTRA), marking a milestone for accelerating smart cities initiatives globally. The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) in collaboration with the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA), alongside city administrations in the country, has developed the ICTRA (Indian Standard IS18000:2020) which makes the internationally recognized ArchiMate® Specification available for smart cities applications across India. The ICTRA has been designed to address real issues that cities are aiming to solve through digital technology, providing a shared framework to improve interoperability and enable vendors to commodify solutions. The ArchiMate® Specification is an open and independent modeling language for Enterprise Architecture that is supported by different tool vendors and consulting firms. The standard provides instruments to enable Enterprise Architects to describe, analyze, and visualize the relationships among business domains in an unambiguous way.