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OMG Certified UML Professional Endorsements

“Since its creation (1989), SOFTEAM has been dedicated to model driven development, for which it has developed specific models, tools, consulting and training offers. The advent of UML as a standard, reinforced by the MDA effort inside the OMG, has been a fundamental step toward a general usage of model driven development approaches. Now the missing stone - the "OMG Certified UML Professional certification program" - will ensure a high level of professionalism amongst UML practitioners. The end result will be a fast gain in maturity for the industrial usage of UML based model driven development. SOFTEAM proudly endorses OMG Certified UML Professional certification program.”

Philippe Desfray, VP for Research & Development, SOFTEAM

"Fujitsu endorses the program and believes it will be supportive of the rapidly growing UML 2.0 marketplace worldwide, helping to increase the number of UML engineers worldwide. "

Hirokazu Narita, a member of OMG Board and General Manager, Standardization Project Strategic Planning Division Software Group,
FUJITSU LIMITED

"The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has strong momentum in the software development world. UML 2.0 will play an important role in embedding model-driven architecture in development organizations everywhere. Certified knowledge of UML 2 is quickly becoming important for software developers, which is why we actively contributed to the development of the OMG Certified UML Professional program."

Bran Selic, Principal Engineer, IBM Software Group, IBM Rational Software

"To survive in the new software development landscape, software engineers will have to gain expertise in modeling languages. Competence in UML 2.0 will be an important skill to have, and certification as a UML professional by the OMG, the steward of the UML standard, carries considerable weight."

David Frankel, CEO of David Frankel Consulting, author of the book "Model Driven Architecture: Applying MDA to Enterprise Computing."

"Once programming skills were important, like skills in writing machine code was important. What you must now have, is the skills in UML. Pass the OMG UML Certification exams and prove your value.”

Michael Jesse Chonoles, Co-author of UML 2 For Dummies, OMG-Certified UML Advanced Professional

"Unisys is delighted to endorse the OMG Certified UML Professional certification program as we consider knowledge of UML to be a critical mark of an accomplished software architect. Unisys, together with OMG, is committed to creating certified world class architects and software engineers and therefore continues to support the testing and subsequent certification of its key architects and senior software engineers via OMG's certification program. OMG's certification program ensures a high level of competency amongst UML practitioners."

Sumeet Malhotra, Director of Technology & Architecture Research, Unisys Corporation

Last updated on 06/27/2008