OMG’s Business Ecology Initiative and Communities of Practice

In 2009, OMG launched the Business Ecology^® Initiative (BEI). Business Ecology is a business-technology imperative focused on streamlining business processes, removing waste from technology portfolios, and adjusting resource consumption, to optimize business operations and foster business innovation. OMG has also developed several Communities of Practice to support BEI including BPM/SOA Community of Practice™, Cyber Security Community of Practice™ and Event Processing Community of Practice™.

These Communities of Practice are comprised of practitioners, service providers and technology vendors, dedicated to promoting the business value, and enabling the successful adoption of specific, key business-technology strategies, by the Global 1000, major government agencies and mid-market businesses. They aren’t focused on standards in the technical sense, but instead are communities of people, agencies and companies driving common standardized means of education, definitions and goals for use by business and IT. Together these communities energize the market and promote involvement.

2010 Communities of Practice Events & Accomplishments

BPM/SOA Community of Practice: is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major government agencies, and mid-market businesses in the successful adoption of Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) methods and technologies.

• BPM/SOA CoP members gathered at the BPM/SOA Symposium in March 2010 and continue to exchange ideas and work on a variety of projects through ongoing Working Group calls. Working Groups include:
  • BPM/SOA Integration Working Group
  • Center of Excellence (CoE) a subgroup of the Integration Working Group
  • Business Ecology Practices for BPM/SOA Working Group
  • EA2010 Working Group
• In addition, the BPM/SOA CoP, in partnership with BPTrends, ebizQ, SearchSOA.com, and SearchCIO.com, announced that Van Ameyde International was the winner of the “Business Agility and Process Optimization Enabled by Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)” Case Study Competition. Runner-up winner was AmerisourceBergen Corporation.

Event Processing Community of Practice: The group’s mission is to “Promote the value and adoption of Event Processing as a means for organizations to increase business agility, innovation and profitability via continuous analytics and intelligence.”

The Event Processing CoP held three events:

• Event Processing: Capital Markets, October 2010, sponsored by Starview, Progress Software, and Sybase
• Event Processing Webcast: Optimizing the Electric Distribution Grid Through Analytical Event Processing, September 2010
• Event Processing Virtual Symposium, June 2010

Cyber Security Community of Practice: this group is now forming to address the real challenges of cyber security. The group’s aim is to raise awareness on Cyber Security threats, risks and protections to enable leaders, professionals and consumers to make intelligent trade-offs with respect to information sharing, business interactions, technology adoption, policymaking and threat mitigation.

The Cyber Security CoP held its inaugural event this year as well:

• CyberSecurity Forum: Guarding the Digital Gates, sponsored by CSC, SAIC and Media sponsors 1105 Media, ebizQ, SearchSOA.com and SearchSecurity.com, May 2010