IASA is the world's largest IT Architecture professional body with the aim in establishing the IT Architect as a profession. IASA has been working on the ITABOK (IT Architecture Body of Knowledge) since 2004 and since 2009, IASA has been offering training and certification for all IT Architects based on the ITABOK. For more information, please visit www.iasaglobal.org

 IASA was established in 2002 and HQ based in Austin, Texas – USA. The IASA Asia Pacific was established by Aaron Tan Dani in 2004 and since then has been very active and experiencing natural growth as IT Architects are much sought after profession in the industry globally.

No, IASA is the body of authority for the global IT Architecture profession and IASA owns the intellectual property of ITABOK and manages the development of training and certification programs for all IT Architects to ensure the high practicality of contents and vendor neutrality. ATD Learning has been appointed by IASA as the authorized training and certification provider for the Asia Pacific region in offering all IT Architecture training and certification programs based on ITABOK.

IASA Chapter presences in almost every major cities in the world and we have more than 50,000 members globally. For more information, please visit www.iasaglobal.org

IT Architecture is the combination of art and science in designing and delivering technology strategy for the business. IT Architect is the profession given to someone who has an IT Architecture career.

TOGAF is one of the enterprise architecture framework focused organization that offer training and certification on their architecture framework whereby IASA is the non-profit organization that offers IT Architecture skills training and certification based on ITABOK.

The ITABOK is the skills collection of the proven IT Architecture best practices that IASA has collated from successful IT Architects globally and has 5 foundational pillars (Business Technology Strategy, IT Environment, Quality Attributes, Design and Human Dynamics) and 4 IT Architecture specializations I.e. Software Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Information Architecture and Business Architecture.

Our trainers are highly qualified in the conducting the training courses and certifications and they have many years of experiences as  IT Architect practitioners in the industry. We have conducted training courses with a feedback record of 100% fully satisfied from all our training courses and we have received many positive feedback and testimonial from our past participants.

Some of the courses that come with the IASA Certifications are having Exam and it is a mandatory before one can get certified. The option to retake the exam is available and please contact ATD solution office nearest to you for more detail information. 

Many industry players and government organizations globally who recognize the IASA Certification. Mention about Microsoft and also MDeC Malaysia and IDA/Citrep Singapore and Software Park Thailand supports.

Yes, as long as you are qualified as a practicing IT Architects and for more information, please visit www.iasaglobal.org

No, as most of the IT Architecture courses available out there are focusing pretty much on the Framework or Technology related topics whereby IASA is focusing 100% on the IT Architecture skills that formed the ITABOK. Hence, it is very difficult to offer credit or exemption, especially those offering who are not skill related focus.

IT Architecture is the most important thing to make IT works for the Business. In fact, IT Architect is the technology strategy for the business and only by adopting and applying IT Architecture skills, then IT will deliver maximum values for the business.