Contact:
Stephanie Covert
OMG
+1-843-737 0637
pr@omg.org
OMG Advances Standards at Technical Meeting in
Washington, D.C.
Meeting March 23-27 also featured SysML Information Days,
and co-located meetings of the BPM Consortium and SOA Consortium
Needham, MA, USA - April 21, 2009 - Members of the OMG™ met in
Washington, D.C. during the week of March 23-27, 2009. At this meeting,
nine specifications and two final reports finished the adoption process
and were approved by the OMG Board of Directors. The Technology Committees
approved the issuance of one new request for proposal. Two new Special
Interest Groups, Mathematical Formalism DSIG and the Emergency, Crisis and
Major Event Management (ECMEM) DSIG, were chartered. This meeting was
co-located with the SOA Consortium,
the GCIO and the BPM
Consortium.
The OMG Board of Directors voted to approve the following
specifications:
Revisions or Finalizations of Specifications
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.
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 RFP was issued in Washington, D.C. and is
currently open to participation.
Non-members may download information on any Request process 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.
New Special Interest Groups
Two new Special Interest Groups, the Mathematical Formalism DSIG and the
Emergency, Crisis and Major Event Management (ECMEM) DSIG, were chartered.
Meeting Sponsors
This meeting was sponsored by Annual Sponsors: No Magic, Inc.; PrismTech;
SPARX Systems; Model Driven Solutions; Intel and Lombardi Software.
OMG's 20th Anniversary Meeting; Links to Additional Information
OMG members will meet next in San Jose, Costa Rica during the week of June
22-26, 2009 sponsored by Annual Sponsors: No Magic, Inc.; SPARX Systems;
Model Driven Solutions; Intel and Lombardi Software; and Meeting Sponsors
GMB, Microsoft and CINDE. This meeting will feature the OMG 20th
Anniversary Celebration.
Members and non-members are invited to attend the Modeling Tutorials
Track, to be presented in Spanish; the MDA, BPM and SOA: Pillars of
Sustainability Information Days, which will have live Spanish translation;
and the Architecture Driven Modernization case study workshop. The BPM
Consortium, the SOA Consortium and the GCIO will also host co-located
events during the meeting week.
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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About OMG
OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer
industry consortium that in 2009 is celebrating its 20th Anniversary. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration
standards for a wide range of technologies, including: Real-time,
Embedded and Specialized Systems, Analysis & Design, Architecture-Driven
Modernization and Middleware and an even wider range of industries,
including: Business Modeling and Integration, C4I, Finance, Government,
Green Computing, Healthcare, Insurance, Legal Compliance, Life Sciences
Research, Manufacturing Technology, Robotics, Software-Based
Communications and Space.
OMG’s modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language™
(UML®) and Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), enable powerful visual
design, execution and maintenance of software and other processes,
including IT Systems Modeling and Business Process Management. OMG’s
middleware standards and profiles are based on the Common Object Request
Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a wide variety of industries.
More information about OMG can be found at
www.omg.org. OMG is
headquartered in Needham, MA, USA.
Note to editors: MDA, Model Driven Architecture, OMG Logo, XMI, UML,
UML logo and CORBA are registered trademarks, and OMG, Object Management
Group, MOF, MDA Logos, BPMN and Unified Modeling Language are trademarks
of Object Management Group. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
Edited by Stephanie
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