OMG Celebrates 20 Years of Setting the Standards at First Latin American Technical Meeting
Standards Advanced at Meeting June 22-26
that also featured Spanish-language Information Days

Needham, MA, USA - July 14, 2009 - Members of the OMG™ met in San Jose, Costa Rica during the week of June 22-26, 2009. At this meeting, one specification and five final reports finished the adoption process and were approved by the OMG Board of Directors. The Technology Committees approved the issuance of two new requests for proposal.

The OMG Board of Directors voted to approve the following specifications (including finalizations and revisions):

• Records Management Services Submission
• Alert Management Service (ALMAS) FTF Report
• Application Management and System Monitoring for CMS Systems (AMSM) FTF Report
• Phenotype and Genotype Object Model (PAGE-OM) FTF Report
• Production Rules Representation (PRR) FTF Report
• Business Motivation Model (BMM) 1.1 RTF Report

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.

• Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2 revised submission
• Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM) RFC FTF
• Robotic Localization Service (RLS) FTF report
• RUBY CORBA Language Mapping FTF report
• General Inter-ORB Protocol (GIOP) Compression FTF report
• UML Profile for Modeling Real-time and Embedded (MARTE) FTF report
• Object Constraint Language (OCL) 2.1 RTF report
• Lightweight Load Balancing FTF report
• Knowledge Discovery Metamodel (KDM) 1.2 RTF 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 San Jose, Costa Rica and are currently open to participation.

• OMG Systems Modeling Language (SysML) RFI
• Metamodel for Federal Segment Architecture RFP

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.

OMG's 20th Anniversary Celebration
OMG's 20th Anniversary Celebration included a presentation by special guest and Nobel Laureate Costa Rican President Oscar Árias as well as keynotes by Sandy Carter, VP, SOA, BPM and WebSphere, IBM and Clay Richardson, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research. To view pictures from the event, including the cake cutting, please visit http://www.soley.com/cgi-bin/show?tcmeeting200906.

Meeting Sponsors
This meeting was sponsored by Platinum Sponsor: No Magic, Inc., Gold Sponsor: SPARX Systems; Silver Sponsors: Intel, Lombardi, Model Driven Solutions; and Meeting Sponsors: Platinum: GBM; Gold: Microsoft; Silver: CINDE, Oracle, Club de Investigación Tecnologica.

Next Meeting; Links to Additional Information
OMG members will meet next in San Antonio, TX during the week of September 14-18, 2009 sponsored by Platinum Sponsor: No Magic, Inc., Gold Sponsor: SPARX Systems; Silver Sponsors: Intel, Lombardi, Model Driven Solutions.

Members and non-members are invited to attend the BPM Consortium, the SOA Consortium and the GCIO 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.

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Edited by Stephanie