When tech organizations, government, and academia need to solve discrete pieces of a technology puzzle or discuss matters of common interest—they often look to join or form a consortium.
Since 1989, the Object Management Group® (OMG®) has created, nurtured, and grown a productive community with common technology interests and problems to resolve. We are global, not-for-profit, and vendor neutral.
OMG was founded to create technology standards.
Over the years, we perfected a time-tested formula in which problems are identified and solutions are solicited, debated, revised and opened for comments. The process is repeated until the most technically and commercially sound ideas are ready to be integrated into products and systems.
This standards work is continued today by the OMG Standards Development Organization (SDO). SDO maintains and owns the standards for the benefit of industry, thanks in large part, to the passion of individual SDO members and the organizations that sponsor them.
In parallel, the parent OMG organization now focuses its efforts on building new consortia. We have a time-tested organizational development, level-playing-field governance model, and access to the expertise of a pantheon of who's who in the technology realm.
Standards Development Organization drives standards related to software and system modeling and software middleware and helps define the semantics of markets, also known as ontologies.
OMG's services are specialized, technical, and focused. The keys to our success include more than 30 years' experience, a strong technology backbone, and proven, repeatable processes.
OMG is best known for the consortia and programs we support and the advancements that emerge from them. Founding members are a roster of tech icons: Hewlett-Packard, American Airlines, Canon, to name but a few. Yet today, four out of five OMG members today are from small companies.
We build communities—some call them ecosystems, some call them sandboxes, some say the greatest think tanks with the most accommodating open swim rules anywhere. Regardless of what you call them, OMG entities are where ideas from anyone are pondered by everyone. This is the real excitement of OMG, where the work gets done and the breakthroughs happen. OMG standards are pervasive and used across many industries and diverse applications. The communication protocols for the International Space Station, the receipt function in your grocer's point-of-sale terminal. Look at what diligent work, innovation, and intelligence are delivering today:
Digital Twin Consortium drives the awareness, adoption, interoperability, and development of digital twin technology. The Consortium is dedicated to the overall development of digital twins.
The Industry IoT Consortium helps technology users, vendors, system integrators, and researchers achieve tangible results as they seek to transform the enterprise digitally.
The Consortium for Information and Software Quality develops standards to automate software quality measurement and promote secure, reliable, and trustworthy software.
Applying Business Process Modeling (BPM) standards to clinical care guidelines, clinical pathways, and healthcare knowledge to make it easier to author, share, and implement evidence-based medicine.
The only global, membership-funded non-profit alliance dedicated to helping accelerate the adoption of Enterprise Augmented Reality (AR) by supporting the growth of a comprehensive ecosystem.