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Stephanie Covert
Object Management Group
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OMG Announces Business Architecture Information Day
Business Architecture Information Day to be co-located with
OMG Technical Meeting in Orlando, FL on September 23

Needham, MA, USA - August 20, 2008 - The Object Management Group™ (OMG™) today announced that the Business Architecture Working Group at OMG will host a Business Architecture Information Day on September 23, 2008, co-located with the OMG Technical Meeting in Orlando, FL. For more information and to register, visit http://www.omg.org.

Most business initiatives require an understanding of the business across functional areas, organizational silos and complex value chains. Yet most enterprises lack a business blueprint. Business architecture facilitates the delivery of a wide range of business requirements and scenarios by creating a living enterprise blueprint that management can use to plan and execute strategic initiatives.

Attendees of the OMG Business Architecture Information Day will learn more about how organizations are deploying business architecture. Business architecture practitioners and leaders from HSBC, State Farm Insurance, Allstate Insurance, the U.S. Federal Government and MetLife Insurance will discuss how they are using business architecture to address major enterprise challenges. In addition, experts in the field will share state-of-the-art approaches for deploying business architecture within an organization.

Presentation topics include:

• The Role of Business Architecture at a Global Bank
• Using Business Architecture to Address Major Horizontal Initiatives
• Leveraging Business Architecture on Strategic Initiatives
• Leveraging Business Architecture Capabilities to Transform Customer Information Management
• Business Architecture Alignment Across a Federated Enterprise
• Panel: Business Architecture / IT Architecture Alignment
• Panel: Business Architecture Cost Justification & ROI

For more information and to register for the Business Architecture Information Day, please visit http://www.omg.org.

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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