Adaptive Joins OMG’s Regulatory Compliance Alliance as Charter Member

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Adaptive, Inc.
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Adaptive Joins OMG's Regulatory Compliance Alliance as Charter Member

Needham, MA, USA - June 21, 2005 - The Object Management Group™ (OMG™), today announced that Adaptive has joined the OMG Regulatory Compliance Alliance (ORCA) as a charter member.

ORCA is a program aimed at end users and vendors that provides corporations and individuals with the latest information on government regulatory compliance issues. The ORCA regulatory compliance repository will provide companies with a wealth of information about the myriad of government compliance regulations faced by companies today. As a charter member of ORCA, Adaptive will provide its enterprise knowledge repository solutions and expertise in enterprise architecture development and implementation.

"To be competitive in today's market, companies must be proactive when dealing with government regulations," said Brent Sabean, executive vice president of Adaptive. "Our corporate mission is to enable customers to manage the models they use to continuously align their business capabilities with their objectives and strategies in an ever-changing environment. Our solutions rely heavily on the standards developed by OMG to describe the various dimensions of enterprises so that they can adapt quickly to new requirements and opportunities. Those standards already go a long way towards helping organizations determine how best to comply with the growing number of regulations. Through our involvement with OMG and ORCA, Adaptive will help ensure that our customers as well as other companies have open access to resources to understand and deal with compliance issues."

"We welcome Adaptive's participation as a charter member of ORCA and we look forward to working closely with them to develop ORCA into the source for IT best practices in regulatory compliance," said Adrian Bowles, program directory, Regulatory Compliance at OMG.

For more information about ORCA, please contact Adrian Bowles at adrian@omg.org or Nicole Glazen Rikkinen at nicole@omg.org, or visit http://orca.omg.org.

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About Adaptive, Inc.
Adaptive is an international corporation providing a web based and industry standards compliant Enterprise Knowledge Repository and related "Adaptations" to enable Enterprise Architecture management. The company works with many large organizations and governments around the world to support their enterprise architecture initiatives and specific management challenges such as Business Process Management and IT Portfolio Management.

Adaptive's technology enables organizations to understand and align critical enterprise assets and capabilities with objectives and strategies, and to reduce the time, cost and risk of adapting to continuous environmental change.

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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. 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. Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, the Object Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. More information about OMG can be found at www.omg.org.

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