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Stephanie Covert
Object Management Group
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End User Focused BPM Standards Advance at
OMG Technical Meeting in San Diego, Calif. March 26-30, 2007
Also hosted successful first co-located meeting of the SOA Consortium

Needham, MA, USA - April 17, 2007 - Members of the Object Management Group™ (OMG™) met in San Diego, California, USA during the week of March 26-30, 2007, sponsored by PrismTech, L3 Communications and Promia. At this meeting, four new standards completed member evaluation and started the series of votes leading to official adoption. This meeting was co-located with the inaugural meeting of the SOA Consortium.

During the meeting week, BPM standards for business-based process technology were adopted or advanced by the members. The standards will be of special importance to end-users as they strive to achieve business agility through visibility, control and reuse of their business processes. The specifications include:

• Business Process Definition Metamodel (BPDM) Up for Adoption
  This metamodel defines an abstract language for specification of executable business processes that execute within an enterprise (with or without human involvement).

• Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM) RFC
  A BPMM describes an evolutionary improvement path that guides organizations in moving from immature, inconsistent processes to mature, disciplined processes.

• Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN™) 1.1 Finalized
  Version 1.1 of this popular standard for modeling business processes has finished the finalization process and is available to the public for downloading off the OMG site.

"Service Oriented Architecture is about recognizing and precisely capturing business processes so they can be reused, shared, made more efficient - a business strategy for business agility. Therefore, SOA requires solid BPM solutions, and all of the modeling solutions for business processes are here at OMG," said Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., chairman and CEO, Object Management Group. "Thanks to the hard work and dedication of our member companies, both end users and vendors, four BPM standards that will greatly benefit end users advanced at the San Diego technical meeting."

Additional Standards Up for Adoption
In addition to BPDM, the following specifications have been reviewed and recommended to the OMG Board of Directors for adoption. For a more in-depth description of any of the specifications, please visit our website www.omg.org. 

• Combat Management Systems (CMS) Application Management
  The domain of Naval Combat Management Systems is characterized by a huge variety of underlying computing platforms, with different and often incompatible means of managing applications. This proposal specifies a standard for Application Management and System Monitoring in CMS systems, consisting of a service part and a data model part.

• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Services V2.0
  This revision comprises two extensions to the existing standard. Extensions of the Computational PIM and PSM for cross company communication of an engineering change request (ECR) and Extensions of the Informational PIM to support the scope defined by industry standards.

• Model-Level Test and Debug
  This proposal defines a Test Instrumentation Interface that allows testing and debugging of PIMs, PSMs, and their resulting implementations at the model level.

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 are currently open to participation.

• Healthcare: Decision Support Service RFP
  A decision support service (DSS) is used by clinical software applications to draw conclusions regarding patients from their patient data and to provide patient-specific care recommendations to physicians, patients, and other healthcare stakeholders.

• Finance: Reference Models of Business Processes for Financial Services RFP
  Modeling the financial processes involved in account opening and funds transfer in a formal way is a first step in a broad industry effort to make business processes across the financial services industry more efficient and secure.

• Middleware and Related Services: Lightweight Load Balancing Services RFC
  A Load Balancing Service is a CORBA® service which distributes incoming requests across a set of server replicas. The distribution logic is specified by means of a Load Balancing Strategy, which might be user defined.

Non-members may download any RFP 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 RFP. For more information on any RFP, send an email to info@omg.org. 

Next Meeting; Links to Additional Information
OMG members will meet next in Brussels, Belgium, during the week of June 25-29, 2007, co-sponsored by PrismTech, Thales, MEGA and Interfacing. Members and non-members are invited to attend the five Seminars, one workshop and co-located meeting with the SOA Consortium (http://www.soa-consortium.org) that will be held during the meeting week.

Seminars introduce OMG processes and standards activities. Topics in Brussels, Belgium will include CORBA/e - M.I.L.S. Seminar, Data Distribution Service Seminar, BPM Think Tank European Workshop, Finance Task Force Seminar, Space Task Force Seminar and Robotics Task Force Seminar. Visit http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/special_events_brussels.htm for details.

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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