OMG Announces Special Events at its Technical Meeting in Berlin, Germany
All interested parties are invited to attend

Needham, MA- 05-01-2013-The Object Management Group (OMG®) is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a plethora of exciting special events during its quarterly technical meeting at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Berlin, Germany. The meeting will run from Monday, June 17th to Friday, June 21st. The schedule of special events includes:

• Component Workshop
  Monday afternoon. It will provide a forum for practitioners to present and discuss activities and direction for future Distributed, Real-time and Embedded software intensive standards work.
• DDS: the Intelligent Systems Backbone
  Tuesday and Wednesday. Featuring real-world case studies on DDS's usage in multiple industries, this event will also include a short tutorial on DDS's architecture and an in-depth tutorial on the standard's capabilities. The ever-popular DDS interoperability test will be a highlight of the two-day event.
• European Business Architecture Innovation Summit
  Tuesday and Wednesday. The summit will lead attendees through cutting-edge concepts and best practices, highlighting practitioner case studies. An impressive list of presenters includes: Eric Karsten (Ford); Michael Clark (JPMorgan Chase); and Tim Blaxall (Zurich Insurance Services).
• Summit on Evolving an Open e-Health Platform
  Monday. Uniting presentations and case studies with community dialogue to chart a course for eHealth that is practical and implementable, this summit will be highly interactive and engaging for attendees, fostering an inclusive and transparent community. The focus will be on Europe's unique healthcare situation.
• OMG Information Day (Sponsored by SIGS DATACOM)
  Thursday. With a mix of OMG member speakers and other well-known industry experts, various topics will be covered with a particular focus, this year, on business process management.

Registration fees for each of these special events vary. Visit www.omg.org/berlin for more information and to register. Walk-in registration is also available.

About OMG
OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies and an even wider range of industries. 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. 

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