OMG Finalizes Adoption of Business Process Maturity Model; Advances Standards at Technical Meeting in Washington, D.C.

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OMG Finalizes Adoption of Business Process Maturity Model;
Advances Standards at Technical Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Meeting March 10-14 also hosted seminars and
co-located meeting of the SOA Consortium

Needham, MA, USA - March 25, 2008 - Members of the Object Management Group™ (OMG™) met in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. during the week of March 10-14, 2008. At this meeting, two revised specifications finished the adoption process and were approved by the OMG Board of Directors. The Technology Committees also approved the issuance of seven new requests for information/proposal. This meeting was co-located with the SOA Consortium.

The OMG Board of Directors voted to approve two specifications:

Business Modeling: Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM) Finalization
The BPMM describes an evolutionary improvement path that guides organizations in moving from immature, inconsistent business activities to mature, disciplined processes. The BPMM orders these stages so that improvements at each stage provide a foundation on which to build improvements undertaken at the next stage. Thus, an improvement strategy drawn from the BPMM provides a roadmap for continuous process improvement. It helps identify process deficiencies in the organization and guides the improvements in logical, incremental steps.
CORBA^®: Enhanced View of Time Finalization
This is a revised and upgraded version of the Enhanced View of Time specification.

Additional Specifications Moving Toward Adoption
In addition to the specifications mentioned, the following specifications are expected to go before the OMG Board of Directors for adoption at the next meeting.

2nd CORBA/e Final Report
ALMAS for CMS Systems Revised Submission
Ground Equipment Management Service (GEMS) Revised Submission
Phenotype and Genotype Object Model
PIM & PSM for Smart Antenna Revised Submission
Application Management for CMS (AMSM) Final Report
BPMN 1.2 Final Report
Super Distributed Objects (SDO) 1.1 Final Report

Get Involved: Processes Open for Participation
OMG is an open-membership organization and welcomes any organization, government agency, or university to join and contribute to our specifications. The following were issued in Washington, D.C. and are currently open to participation.

Reference Metamodel for EXPRESS Information Modeling Language RFC
Native C++ Language DDS Platform Specific Model Request for Proposal
Dynamic Business Activity Models RFI
Ontology and Vocabulary Management Information RFI
Business Security and Authorization Policy Modeling RFI
Date-Time Foundation Vocabulary RFP
Naval Meteorological & Oceanographic System Interface RFP

Non-members may download information on any of these Request processes from http://www.omg.org/public_schedule. For some processes, member votes have extended the Letter of Intent (LOI) dates beyond the deadline stated in the Request for Proposals (RFP). For more information on any RFP, send an email to info@omg.org.

Special Presentation Podcasts
There were several special presentations at the OMG Technical Meeting and Information Days. During the OMG Government Information Days, Kshemendra N. Paul, Chief Architect, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Diane Reeves, Enterprise Architect, Department of the Interior (DOI) gave keynote presentations. During the OMG Plenary, Bill Vass, President and COO, Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc., and Ross Altman, CTO, SOA and Business Integration, Sun Microsystems, Inc. presented "Open Source, Open Standards and SOA." Each of these presentations will be available soon as on-demand podcasts on the OMG website.

Meeting Sponsors
This meeting was sponsored by: Annual Sponsors: No Magic, Inc., PrismTech, Sparx Systems; Gold Sponsors: Model Driven Solutions, Telelogic; Silver Sponsors: Layer 7 Technologies, Lombardi Software, Software AG, Vangent; and Organizational Sponsor: Interoperability Clearinghouse

Next Meeting; Links to Additional Information
OMG members will meet next in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada during the week of June 23-27, 2008. Members and non-members are invited to attend the Information Days focused on Regulatory Compliance and C4I standards as well as the BPM Wednesday roundtable, which will focus on Finance, OMG Tutorials and co-located meeting with the SOA Consortium (http://www.soa-consortium.org) that will be held during the meeting week. Also to be held in Ottawa is the second day of the two-day Eclipse/OMG Symposium on open source software and open standards. That event will be held on June 25, 2008.

Interested non-members may attend OMG Technical Meetings as observers; for an invitation see http://www.omg.org/tcguest. Members may register for the meeting at http://www.omg.org/registration. All OMG specifications may be downloaded free of charge from http://www.omg.org/specifications.

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Edited by Stephanie