OMG Members Adopt Modeling Specifications for Business,
Real-time and Government Applications at Technical Meeting
Diverse Participants Maintain Standards Momentum at Meeting September 14-18

Needham, MA, USA – October 8, 2009 – Members of the OMG™ met in San Antonio, TX during the week of September 14-18, 2009. At this meeting, one specification and nine final reports finished the adoption process and were approved by the OMG Board of Directors. The Technology Committees approved the issuance of five new requests for proposal.

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

• 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

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.

• Ada Language Mapping 1.3 RTF
• Abstract Syntax Tree Metamodel 1.0 (ASTM) FTF
• Lightweight Fault Tolerance for Distributed Real-time Systems RFP
• Shared Operational Picture Exchange Services (SOPES) Information Exchange Data Model (IEDM) RFP
• 2nd Phenotype and Genotype Object Model (PAGE-OM) FTF
• Systems Modeling Language (SysML) 1.2 RTF
• Model Driven Message Interoperability Submission

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 Antonio and are currently open to participation.

• Management of Regulation and Compliance (MRC) RFP
• Common Terminology Services Release 2 (CTS2) RFP
• Web-enabled Data Distribution Service (DDS) RFP
• Case Management Process Modeling (CMPM) RFP
• Unified Profile for DoDAF/MODAF (UPDM) 2.0 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.

Meeting Sponsors

This meeting was sponsored by Platinum Sponsor: No Magic, Inc., Gold Sponsor: SPARX Systems and Silver Sponsors: Intel, Lombardi, Model Driven Solutions.

Meeting Special Events

This Technical Meeting also featured co-located meetings of the Business Ecology Initiative (BEI), a joint meeting of the BPM and SOA Consortiums, and a meeting of the GCIO. Select presentations recorded at these meetings will be made available online as podcasts in the upcoming weeks. The SOA Consortium and CIO magazine announced the winners of the 2009 SOA Case Study Competition at this meeting.

Next Meeting; Links to Additional Information

OMG members will meet next in Long Beach, Calif. during the week of December 7-11, 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 three-day Business Ecology Initiative event featuring sessions hosted by the BPM/SOA Consortium and the GCIO with the theme of Cloud on December 8-10.

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 20^th 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