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OMG and the UML Technology Institute Announce UML Certification
Program
OMG Chairman and CEO Richard Soley announces today at UML 2003 Forum
Tokyo, Japan - April 17, 2003 - The Object Management Group™ (OMG™)
and the UML Technology Institute (UTI) announced today at UML 2003 Forum
in Tokyo, Japan, a joint Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®)
Certification Program. The program will provide formal certification of
expertise in UML. Targeted at analysts, programmers, developers and
architects worldwide, UML certification will serve as a touchstone for
enhancing levels of productivity and for determination of skill level for
those hiring or wishing to measure their knowledge of UML. Since UML is
the underlying de facto standard for analysis and design that drives the
growing Model Driven Architecture™ (MDA®) standard, proficiency in UML
is, and will continue to be, a highly valuable skill for IT professionals
to possess.
OMG will develop the exams in a joint effort with UTI. The program will be
available beginning in late fall 2003, with UTI administering the program
in Japan and other parts of Asia and OMG administering it in the rest of
the world. OMG will assemble a team of UML experts and experienced
examination professionals to develop the exam materials. Three
examinations will test UML knowledge and skills at progressively advanced
levels.
In his remarks at the UML 2003 Forum, Dr. Richard Soley, OMG Chairman
and CEO stated, "The UML Certification Program fills a vital need for
measurement of skills that will be increasingly crucial as more and more
smart companies focus on MDA and modeling, thereby boosting the demand for
qualified UML professionals. OMG is delighted to work with UTI to deliver
a service that will benefit the IT industry throughout the world."
"UTI is at the leading edge of the modeling technology wave, and
our work on the UML Certification Program with OMG marks a major new
advance in this exciting field. We expect large numbers of participants to
enroll in the program as modeling technologies continue to emerge as a key
factor for success in designing sound enterprise systems," said
Mitsuru Chikamori, President of UML Technology Institute Co., Ltd.
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About the UML Technology Institute
The UML Technology Institute Co., LTD. was founded to promote the use of
open, standards-based modeling technologies through the development of
international certification programs that provide formal recognition of
modeling expertise. With headquarters in Tokyo, UML Technology Institute
was established in November 2002 by PA Co., Ltd. and Object Technology
Institute, the OMG Representative in Japan.
About The OMG
With well-established standards covering software from design and
development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to
evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports
a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI,
the key to successful IT. Based on the Model Driven Architecture (MDA),
OMG's standards cover multiple operating systems, programming languages,
middleware and networking infrastructures, and software development
environments. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA, include the
Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM).
CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard
open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today.
OMG's well-established CORBAservices and industry-specific standards are
being re-issued under the MDA in many popular middleware environments. OMG
domain (industry-specific) standards cover vertical markets including
healthcare, telecommunications, biotechnology, transportation and a dozen
other areas. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with a U.S.
government representative in Washington, DC, and international marketing
representatives in Japan, the UK, and Germany.
The Object Management Group is an international, open membership,
not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. OMG member
companies write, adopt, and maintain the organization's standards
following a mature, open process. All current OMG specifications may be
downloaded without charge from the organization's website, www.omg.org;
the site also provides additional information about OMG and its
activities. For information on joining the OMG, or questions not addressed
on the website, please contact OMG headquarters by email at info@omg.org,
by phone at +1-781-444 0404, or by fax at +1-781-444 0320. The OMG
provides current information and services for distributed enterprise
computing through The Information Brokerage® service on the World Wide
Web at www.omg.org and www.corba.org.
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