OMG Advances Standards at Technical Meeting in Ottawa, Ontario

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OMG Advances Standards at Technical Meeting in Ottawa, Ontario
Meeting June 23-27 also hosted seminars and co-located meetings of
the SOA Consortium and the OMG/Eclipse Symposium

Needham, MA, USA - July 21, 2008 - Members of the Object Management Group™ (OMG™) met in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada during the week of June 23-27, 2008. At this meeting, nine new and revised specifications finished the adoption process and were approved by the OMG Board of Directors. The Technology Committees also approved the issuance of five new requests for information/proposal. This meeting was co-located with the SOA Consortium and the OMG/Eclipse Symposium on Open Standards and Open Software.

The OMG Board of Directors voted to approve nine specifications:

Alert Management Service (ALMAS) for CMS Systems
Phenotype and Genotype Object Model
Ground Equipment Management Service (GEMS)
ADM Knowledge Discovery Metamodel (KDM) Version 1.1
Application Management and System Monitoring (AMSM) for Combat Management Systems (CMS) Version 1.0 Final Report
Business Process Definition Metamodel (BPDM) Version 1.0
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) Version 1.2 Final Report
CORBA/e Version 1.0
Super Distributed Objects (SDO) Version 1.1 Final Report

Additional Specifications Moving Toward Adoption
In addition to the specifications mentioned, the following specifications are expected to go before the OMG Board of Directors for adoption at the next meeting.

Get Involved: Processes Open for Participation
OMG is an open-membership organization and welcomes any organization, government agency, or university to join and contribute to our specifications. The following were issued in Ottawa, Ontario and are currently open to participation.

UML Profile for XBRL Global Ledger (GL) Framework RFI (Finance)
Value Delivery Modeling RFI (Business Modeling)
Extensible and Dynamic Topic Types for DDS RFP (Data Distribution Service)
UML Profile for Advanced and Integrated Telecommunication Services RFP
Automated Software Testing RFI

Non-members may download information on any of these Request processes from http://www.omg.org/public_schedule. For some processes, member votes have extended the Letter of Intent (LOI) dates beyond the deadline stated in the Request for Proposals (RFP). For more information on any RFP, send an email to info@omg.org.

Special Presentation Podcasts
There were several special presentations at the OMG Technical Meeting and Information Days. During the OMG Plenary, Jim Johnson, founder & chairman, The Standish Group, presented "Trends in Open Source 2008." Select presentations will be available soon as on-demand podcasts on the OMG website.

Meeting Sponsors
This meeting was sponsored by: Annual Sponsors: No Magic, Inc., PrismTech, Sparx Systems; and Silver Sponsors: Interfacing, Lombardi Software.

Next Meeting; Links to Additional Information
OMG members will meet next in Orlando, FL, U.S.A. during the week of September 22-26, 2008. Members and non-members are invited to attend the Information Days; the BPM Wednesday roundtable, which will focus on Healthcare; OMG Tutorials; and the co-located meeting with the SOA Consortium (http://www.soa-consortium.org) that will be held during the meeting week. During the SOA Consortium meeting, the winners of the SOA Case Study Competition will be announced.

Interested non-members may attend OMG Technical Meetings as observers; for an invitation see http://www.omg.org/tcguest. Members may register for the meeting at http://www.omg.org/registration. All OMG specifications may be downloaded free of charge from http://www.omg.org/specifications.

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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