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Meet an OMG Member:
Fred Cummins
 Fred
Cummins is an independent contractor through his
company, Agile Enterprise Design. He also works
part-time for Cordys and attends OMG meetings as a
Cordy representative. We
sat down with Fred to find out a bit more about
his time as an OMG member:
OMG:
Hi Fred! When did you join OMG and why
did you become a member?
FC: I attended an OMG meeting in the early
1990s [as an employee of Electronic Data Systems
(EDS)]. At that time, EDS had another representative
participating. I did not start attending regularly
until 1995 when I was selected to be the EDS
representative. I participated because EDS benefited
from standards as a systems integrator and because
standards are of interested to EDS clients.
OMG:
How has being a part of OMG helped you or
your company?
FC: OMG participation was a marketing benefit
to EDS in addition to providing insights and
influence on trends and standards. Personally,
participation gave me the opportunity to work with
leading industry professionals, gain insights on
industry trends, and influence the development of
several important industry standards. I have written
three books that have considerable content derived
from knowledge and insights gained from OMG
participation.
OMG:
What project/specification are you currently
working on with OMG?
FC: I worked on the Case Management Model and
Notation (CMMN) specification that was recently
recommended for adoption. I am still working on the
Value Delivery Modeling Language (Value Delivery
Metamodel RFP) specification. In both cases I worked
on development of the RFP and later the
specification.
OMG:
Why would you encourage other professionals
to join OMG?
FC: OMG provides an opportunity to advance
the state of the art, learn about the technology and
gain insights on industry challenges and trends
while working with a group of very knowledgeable
industry professionals. This benefits both the
individual and the company she/he represents.
Interested in sharing your OMG experience
with us? Email Julie Pike at julie@omg.org.
Other
Resources
For more information on OMG or any of our advocacy groups,
such as the CSCC or CISQ, visit us
online. Members
should sign up for their own personal
myOMG page to
access and manage your email lists, submissions and interests.
Did you know…
Did you know that we have several RSS feeds on the OMG website?
Visit
us online to subscribe!
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New Member Spotlight: Princeton Blue,
Inc.
Last month, OMG welcomed Princeton Blue,
Inc. as a new
influencing-level member. A leading provider of business
automation, management and optimization solutions delivered via
Business Process Management and Integration technology
solutions, influencing the principles of SOA, Princeton Blue
brings many years of Integration expertise that can help
automate the manual communication between various organization
silos within an enterprise and across trading partners.
"We are very excited about Princeton Blue joining
OMG," said Pramod Sachdeva, Founder and Managing Director
at Princeton Blue. "We expect that our membership will
involve us with relevant OMG projects and provide a vehicle to
communicate our unique capabilities around BPM."
The company is interested in participating in task forces and
working groups that focus on business modeling and integration,
finance, healthcare, business architecture, and SOA.
Seeking Participants: BPMN Model
Interchange Working Group
The Business Process Model and Notation Model Interchange
Working Group (BPMN MIWG) is currently seeking participants to
join in the creation of an interchange test framework that will
support, facilitate and and promote the interchange of BPMN
models amongst tools that implement the standard.
"BPMN 2.0 is the most successful Business Process
standard around, but there are still some loose-ends in the
interchange of BPMN 2.0 files that require some attention,"
stated Denis Gagne, chair of BPMN 2.0 MIWG and principal at
Business Process Incubator. "The BPMN MIWG was created to
support, facilitate and promote the interchange of BPMN Models
amongst various tools...All organizations-be they users or
software vendors- are invited to participate. We hope that this
effort will help propel BPMN 2.0 adoption even more."
The group is currently holding weekly web meetings and will
have its first in-person meeting at the Berlin TC in June. All
interested parties are invited to join. Visit
bpmn-miwg
for more information.
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Twitter: @objectmgmtgroup and @Cloud_Council
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and
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