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Mission
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"OMG’s
mission is to develop, with our worldwide
membership, enterprise integration standards that
provide real-world value. OMG is also dedicated to
bringing together end-users, government agencies,
universities and research institutions in our
communities of practice to share experiences in
transitioning to new management and technology
approaches like Cloud Computing." |
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The
Object Management Group (OMG®) is an international, open membership,
not-for-profit computer industry standards consortium. Founded in 1989,
OMG standards are driven by vendors, end-users, academic institutions
and government agencies. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration
standards for a wide range of technologies and an even wider range of
industries. OMG’s modeling standards, including the
Unified Modeling Language (UML) and
Model Driven Architecture (MDA), enable powerful visual design,
execution and maintenance of software and other processes. OMG also
hosts organizations such as the user-driven information-sharing
Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC) and the IT industry software
quality standardization group, the
Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ).
Our
members include hundreds of organizations including software
end-users in over two dozen vertical markets (from
finance to
healthcare and
automotive to
insurance) and virtually every large organization in the technology
industry. OMG’s one organization- one vote policy ensures that every
member organization- whether large or small- has an effective voice in
our voting process.
At OMG, specification adoption is the starting point rather than the end
of the process. Our “No
Shelf-ware” policy bars all bidding specifications that do not have
an implementation plan from being adopted by OMG. This guarantees that
all OMG specifications are immediately useable. Furthermore, we do not
just focus on the specification itself- we focus on the whole product:
with corresponding seminars, workshops, certification, books and more!
OMG hosts four
technical meetings throughout the year. These meetings give OMG
members and interested nonmembers the opportunity to collaborate in a
centralized location, learn about standards products and processes at
tutorials, and attend special information day events on current trending
hot topics. While technical meetings provide a centralized location
for Task Forces and Working Groups to work together, they are merely
checkpoints with the bulk of the work between members taking place
electronically via email, teleconferences, and on
wikis.
In addition to technical meetings, OMG acts as event producer for
conferences and workshops for its members around the world, including
the
Internationalization & Unicode Conference.
OMG maintains
liaison relationships with dozens of other organizations including
ISO (which
publishes many OMG standards without edits),
Health Level Seven (HL7), and the
Data Transparency Coalition.
For more
information about joining OMG, please visit
www.omg.org/be-a-member-a.htm.
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