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OMG's Adrian Bowles to Contribute Monthly Column to Compliance Executive
OMG Regulatory Compliance Alliance Program Director to Share Insights
on Leading Compliance Information Portal

Needham, MA, USA - March 5, 2007 - The Object Management Group™ today announced that Adrian Bowles, Program Director of the OMG Regulatory Compliance Alliance (ORCA™), will be a regular columnist on regulatory compliance issues for Compliance Executive. Compliance Executive (www.complianceexecutive.com) is an online news and feature portal focusing on the areas of corporate governance, risk and compliance and reaches 45,000 senior level financial and legal executives throughout the US.

Adrian's first column, "Continuous Compliance vs. Continuous Trust: Think Like Your Customers" is now available on the Compliance Executive website. Additional webcasts and whitepapers on compliance topics are available from the ORCA website, http://orca.omg.org.

About Adrian
Adrian Bowles, Regulatory Compliance Program Director, heads ORCA. Dr. Bowles has more than 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, practitioner and academic in information technology with a focus on IT strategy and management.

Dr. Bowles leads the OMG's efforts to identify and codify IT compliance best practices and develop appropriate standards. In this role, he is responsible for research studies, publications, and standards for governance, privacy and security regulations.

Dr. Bowles was previously the founding Director of Research and Education at the IT Compliance Institute. He has contributed articles and commentary on regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach Bliley, the USA Patriot Act and Basel II to publications including Application Development Trends, Computerworld, InformationWeek, Optimize, and CIO.com, and regularly presents research findings at industry events.

Dr. Bowles earned his BA in Psychology and MS in Computer Science from SUNY Binghamton, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University.

About ORCA
ORCA is an open community created to raise awareness of the complex regulatory compliance issues companies face today, and to provide them with resources to make them successful in their compliance efforts. One of ORCA's most significant endeavors is the development of the Compliance Global Regulatory Information Database (C-GRID™). The C-GRID is being developed as an open database of rules, regulations, standards, and government guidance documents that require IT action, and a survey of the regulatory climate around the world. The goal of this project is to provide the de facto compliance reference guide for global IT managers. Contributions from the community to the database are being accepted and vetted by a team of regulatory compliance experts on an ongoing basis. See http://www.omg.org/orca-pr to add your submission.

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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, 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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