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Save the Date: OMG Announces Inaugural BPM Think Tank Europe 2008
Business Process Management (BPM) event to be held November 11-12, 2008
at Vanenburg Castle, Putten, Netherlands

Needham, MA, USA - July 14, 2008 - The Object Management Group™ (OMG™) today announced that the inaugural BPM Think Tank Europe 2008 event will be held November 11-12, 2008 at Vanenburg Castle, Putten, Netherlands. For more information, visit http://www.omg.org/bpmeurope-sd.

BPM Think Tank Europe will mirror the popular format of interactive sessions and roundtable discussions as the original BPM Think Tank annual event. This popular business-oriented event will involve attendees in interactive roundtables moderated by leading BPM experts from European organizations. At BPM Think Tank Europe 2008, experts and practitioners alike will gather to discuss the use of BPM to achieve successful business results. Our unique format combining roundtable discussions, case study presentations, panel sessions, as well as BPM tools demonstrations, will allow participants to gain uncommon insight into BPM in the real world and in the process owner's office.

Conference Overview
BPM Think Tank Europe 2008 participants will participate in at least three unique, highly interactive BPM Roundtables over the course of two days. These roundtables are small, interactive group sessions moderated by subject matter experts who will introduce the topic and move on to the group discussion that uniquely characterizes BPM Think Tank. These BPM Roundtables have been a highly acclaimed feature of the BPM Think Tank in the past and clearly differentiate this event from others in the BPM marketplace. Presentations before and after the roundtable sessions will focus on business case studies presented by end users with real-world experience.

BPM Think Tank Europe 2008 is especially relevant to the business-oriented BPM practitioner. This includes practitioners at all levels who are responsible for running, managing, analyzing and executing business processes, in addition to BP architects and consultants, and vendors and users of BPM tools.

Additional Information
BPM Think Tank Europe 2008 is produced by the Object Management Group and is sponsored by Cordys and Lombardi Software. OMG is the custodian of the Business Process Modeling Notation™ (BPMN™), the industry standard graphic language for modeling business processes, and its members from around the globe have developed a full suite of BPM standards.
For more information about BPM Think Tank Europe 2008, visit http://www.omg.org/bpmeurope-sd. The Early-bird registration deadline is October 1, 2008. Exhibit space is available; for more information contact Kevin Loughry at loughry@omg.org, +1-781-444 0404. Sponsorship opportunities are available; contact Ken Berk at kenberk@omg.org, +1-781-444 0404.

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About the Object Management Group
OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry consortium. 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, 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