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James Adamczyk of Accenture to Keynote OMG's Third Annual BPM Think Tank 2007
Unique Event Featuring Business and Technology Roundtables Focused on
Business Process Management (BPM) to be held in Burlingame, Calif., July 23-25, 2007

Needham, MA, USA - May 7, 2007 - The Object Management Group™ (OMG™) today announced that James Adamczyk, senior executive in the Systems Integration & Technology group and BPM Capability lead at Accenture, will be giving a keynote presentation at BPM Think Tank 2007, to be held July 23-25, 2007 at the San Francisco Hyatt Regency in Burlingame, California. BPM Think Tank 2007 is produced by the Object Management Group in partnership with BPTrends and is sponsored by Platinum Sponsors Lombardi Software and BEA, Silver Sponsors Accenture, Flow Centric and Interfacing, as well as organizational sponsor BPM Group and media sponsors BPM Focus and bpm.com. Conference pricing begins at US$640.00 for the three-day event (http://www.omg.org/tt-keynote).

Mr. Adamczyk will give the presentation, "Standards Play Critical Role in Creating Value with BPM." During the presentation, Mr. Adamczyk will discuss how Business Process Management, as both a business and IT discipline, promises to improve the linkage between business strategy, information technology and business monitoring. BPM is rapidly becoming one of the most important approaches organizations are examining to achieve high performance with SOA. Learn what some of Accenture's clients are doing to implement enterprise-wide BPM, and how standards for process design, automation and monitoring will be a critical factor in the success of those efforts.

Mr. Adamczyk joins additional keynote presenters Paul Harmon, Executive Editor and Founder, Business Process Trends, who will present "Trends in Business Process Management," and Randy Heffner, Vice President, Forrester Research, Inc. who will give the business analyst keynote.

As Senior Executive in Accenture's Systems Integration & Technology group and BPM Capability lead, Mr. Adamczyk manages the Process Centric Architectures Specialty across the company. He is responsible for setting the direction, and developing the skills, assets and offerings to help clients adopt and utilize Business Process Management (including Business Process Automation). In addition, Mr. Adamczyk leads the Technical Architecture Capability for Accenture's Financial Services North America Clients.

Mr. Adamczyk has over 25 years experience in management, design, development, and testing of large scale, mission critical applications based upon complex systems architectures, distributed computing and object-oriented technologies. Most recently, Mr. Adamczyk has been working with clients to address issues of analysis, design and automation of business processes leveraging Service Oriented Architectures including work with a major retail and commercial bank, and a credit card processor.

Mr. Adamczyk has a degree in Engineering from Purdue University, and a Masters Degree in Engineering from Georgia Tech.

About BPM Think Tank 2007
This popular annual event will once again feature presentations by leading experts and roundtable discussions actively involving attendees. BPM Think Tank 2007 will gather together experts and practitioners alike to discuss the practical application of BPM standards, technologies and practices to achieve successful business results. A unique format the two separate tracks for business and IT attendees, with roundtable discussions, as well as technology exhibits, case study presentations and expert panel sessions, will allow participants to gain uncommon insight into BPM in the real world, within the standards community, on the IT drawing board and in the process owner's office.

This year's BPM Think Tank 2007 (http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/ThinkTank/program-committee.htm) is being co-chaired by Phil Gilbert, Chair of the OMG's BPMI Steering Committee and Paul Harmon, Founder and Executive Editor of BPTrends. Program committee members include: Fred A. Cummins, EDS; Derek Miers, BPM Focus; Celia Wolf, Business Process Trends; David S. Frankel, SAP Labs, LLC; Paul Vincent, TIBCO Software; Paul Harmon, Business Process Trends; Phil Gilbert, Lombardi Software; Ross Altman, Sun Microsystems; Sridhar Iyengar, IBM; John W. Alden, Capability Measurement and Fred Waskiewicz, Object Management Group.

For more information, visit http://www.omg.org/tt-keynote. 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 BPTrends
BPTrends (www.bptrends.com) is the primary source of business intelligence for business executives and process change practitioners around the globe. Industry thought leaders provide analysis and opinion on trends, directions and best practices relating to all aspects of business process management. BPTrends is the most comprehensive, in-depth business process management resource devoted to educating and informing the market. The BPTrends BP Tools Reports are the most widely read reports on BP software tools available. With over 20,000 members, BPTrends is the largest community of BP Professionals in the world. BPTrends Associates, a BPM professional services company, provides executive education, training, mentoring and consulting services and has partnered with Boston University to deliver the BU BPM Curriculum and Certificate Program.

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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