OMG’s Standards

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OMG’s members actively shape the future of software standards at OMG meetings where they write, adopt, and maintain the organization’s standards following a mature, worldwide, open process. Member companies benefit from early awareness of emerging standards, and the ability to shape them to fit their architecture and needs. After adoption, the specifications are made available to everyone for free download on OMG’s website, and are maintained by an open, long-term process. The entire industry benefits from the economies and capabilities of standardized software that conform to these specifications.

OMG issues rapidly growing suites of both industry-specific and general standard software. Based on OMG’s flagship Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), these standards implement business functions equivalently and interoperably on virtually all popular middleware platforms including Web Services, XML/SOAP, C#/.Net, Enterprise JavaBeans, and others in addition to OMG’s own CORBA®. CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG’s standard open middleware platform for object-oriented systems; the Data Distribution Service (DDS) supports data centric publish-subscribe semantics. Both middleware standards support real-time as well as conventional systems.

OMG’s MDA standard is a powerful tool for modeling complex systems that also helps companies future-proof their technology investment. Modeling standards include the Unified Modeling Language® (UML®), MetaObject Facility™ (MOF™), OMG Systems Modeling Language (OMG SysML™), XML Metadata Interchange® (XMI®), Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN™), and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM™).

Our maturity model work (Business Process Management Maturity Model or BPMM and Green Computing Maturity Model or GCMM) allow for standard, common ways for organizations to measure their own success. They define common missions and provide a means to build momentum.

These specifications combine to form a foundation and framework for multi-platform enterprise interoperability that covers the full software lifecycle, allowing organizations to leverage their IT assets and maximize their return on software investment. Implementations of OMG specifications are produced by vendors as products, or by end users and others who need a standard solution to a particular computing or business problem to future-proof their software assets.

The focus of the OMG is not just to create commercial consensus through standards, but also to ensure that the marketplace embraces those standards. OMG continues to nurture the marketplace of interoperable software, one in which users can purchase standards-compliant software “off the shelf.” The full catalog of OMG specifications is available on our website at http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/spec_catalog.htm.