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Three New Business Process Metamodel Specifications to Take Final Form at Upcoming OMG Meeting; August 23-27, 2004, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
NEEDHAM, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- July 27, 2004 -- Members of the Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) will meet in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from August 23-27, 2004 at a Technical Meeting to advance the organization's standards work and attend information days and tutorials.
New Business Process Metamodel (BPM) Specifications
OMG's Business Enterprise Integration (BEI) Domain Task Force (DTF) is building a framework of standards that provides Business Process Management (BPM) with a foundation for modeling of business rules, workflow, and other aspects of business process, and brings the advantages of OMG's Model Driven Architecture(R) (MDA(R)) to rule-based business computing. Led by member companies IBM, EDS, Fair Isaac, and others, the BEIDTF expects to complete evaluation of draft specifications for business process runtime interfaces (similar to workflow, but broader in scope and concept), and standard metamodels for business process definition and business semantics for business rules. With evaluations complete, the drafts will start the series of votes leading to adoption as official OMG specifications at the end of the meeting week.
e-Payments Standards Work Gets Under Way
The Finance DTF will review responses from the Finance industry to their recent Request for Information on electronic payment protocols and architecture and, using this information, construct a roadmap for an electronic payment architecture.
Life Science Research Information Day and Standards Work
The Life Science Research DTF will hold a topical Information Day on Wednesday, August 25. Designed to bring new members up-to-date on the Task Force's work, the day starts with descriptions of their seven current standards and ends with live demonstrations of interoperability enabled by three recent additions to their specification suite. The LSR DTF will also complete their evaluation of a draft specification for a Life Sciences Analysis Engine and start it along the final series of votes leading to adoption.
Two New Modeling Standards
OMG's Analysis and Design Platform Task Force (PTF) will review revised draft specifications for UML(R) for Systems Engineering, and MOF(TM) 2 Versioning and Development Lifecycle, and start them along the series of votes leading to final adoption.
Infrastructure Standards Work
The Middleware and Related Services PTF will review draft specifications for the CORBA(R) security protocol SECP, and Quality of Service for CORBA Components, and start the series of votes leading to adoption. The Real-Time, Embedded, and Specialized Systems PTF will do the same for two additional specifications: High-performance enablers for CORBA, and Model-level testing and debugging. They also plan to review proposed standards for a Real-time protocol for CORBA and a UML profile for a system-on-a-chip, submitted to OMG's fast-track RFC adoption process.
Robotics Information Day
OMG's Robotics Working Group will kick off with an information day on Wednesday, August 25.
OMG Tutorials, Software Demonstrations
Four tutorials will survey and highlight OMG specifications and technology areas, including a "Survey of OMG Specifications", "Introduction to UML 2.0", "MDA--Where it Came From and Where It's Going", and "SAE Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL) and its UML Profile."
Open and freely available, OMG specifications have been implemented by many vendors, universities, and other groups. In Montreal on Tuesday and Wednesday, a number of implementors will display their products at a central demonstration area.
UML Certification Examinations
Attendees may take the organization's UML Certification examinations during the meeting week. No pre-registration is necessary to take the tests, which will be offered at a nearby testing site all week. For more information about the certification program, see www.omg.org/uml-certification.
This meeting description is based on preliminary information. OMG Task Forces will finalize their agendas for the meeting during the week of August 9th and post them at www.omg.org/agendas.
Links to Meeting Information
OMG's home page is www.omg.org. The meeting schedule and a link registration for members appear at www.omg.org/registration, and for guests at www.omg.org/tcguest. Agendas appear at www.omg.org/agendas. Information about the MDA is collected at www.omg.org/mda. All OMG specifications may be downloaded free of charge from www.omg.org/specifications.
About The OMG
With well-established standards covering software from design and development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI, the key to successful IT. OMG's standards cover multiple operating systems, programming languages, middleware and networking infrastructures, and software development environments. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA, include the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today.
Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC, and international marketing representatives in Japan, the UK, and Germany, the Object Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. OMG member companies write, adopt, and maintain the organization's standards following a mature, open process. All current OMG specifications may be downloaded without charge from the organization's website, www.omg.org; the site also provides additional information about OMG and its activities. For information on joining the OMG, or questions not addressed on the website, please contact OMG headquarters by email at info@omg.org, by phone at +1-781-444 0404, or by fax at +1-781-444 0320.
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