OMG Announces Roundtable Topics for Fourth Annual BPM Think Tank 2008

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OMG Announces Roundtable Topics for Fourth Annual BPM Think Tank 2008
Business Process Management (BPM) event to be held October 6-7, 2008

Needham, MA, USA - June 16, 2008 - The Object Management Group™ (OMG™), in partnership with BPTrends, today announced the Roundtable topics for the BPM Think Tank 2008 event, which will be held October 6-7, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare in Chicago, IL, USA. For more information, visit http://www.omg.org/think-tank-topics.

BPM Think Tank 2008 attendees will participate in at least three unique, highly interactive BPM Roundtables over the course of two days. These roundtables are small, interactive group sessions moderated by subject matter experts who will introduce the topic and move on to the group discussion that uniquely characterizes BPM Think Tank. These BPM Roundtables have been a highly acclaimed feature of the BPM Think Tank in the past and clearly differentiate this event from others in the BPM marketplace. Presentations before and after the roundtable sessions will focus on business case studies presented by end users with real-world experience.

Roundtable Topics:

Business Process Governance in the Real World
Business Process Governance - How to organize the Process of Process Management
How should Service Oriented Architecture change the business?
How should the strategic plan drive the enterprise?
How can models improve business agility?
Measurement of Process Excellence
Barriers to Process Improvement
The ROI of model driven business
Business Process Management and Business Frameworks
How does Organizational Process Maturity contribute to Regulatory Compliance?
Business Process Management in small and medium companies
What should the executive dashboard provide?
The Relationship between BPMS & Business Intelligence
BPM in the Federal Government
Achieving Collaboration Between Business and IT in Business Process Management
How Business Process Management enables innovation
Managing Emergent Processes
How globalization impacts Business Process Management
From ERP through SOA to Web 2.0 - new ways of process execution
Managing Complexity in a process driven world
Combining Event Processing with BPMS for Agility
Business Involvement in Business Process Modeling
What are the business implications of a value chain model?

Roundtable Moderators

Each roundtable is moderated by a subject matter expert. Roundtable leaders include:

David Bridgeland, CTO, Global Business Transformation, Unisys Corporation
Cory Casanave, CEO/President, Model Driven Solutions
Fred Cummins, EDS Fellow, EDS Technology Strategy & Architecture
Phil Gilbert, President, Lombardi Software
Paul Harmon, Executive Editor, Business Process Trends
Sandy Kemsley, BPM Analyst and Architect, Kemsley Design Ltd.
Mathias Kirchmer, Chief Innovation and Marketing Officer, Accenture
Meir Levi, CEO, Interfacing Technologies
Derek Miers, CEO, BPM Focus
Scott Palmer, Executive Director, Value Chain Group, Inc.
Marc Smith, Director, Technical Marketing, Lombardi Software
Paul Vincent, Rules Manager, TIBCO Software
Ron Zahavi, CIO, Global Business Transformation, Unisys Corporation

BPM Think Tank 2008 is especially relevant to the business-oriented BPM practitioner. This includes practitioners at all levels who are responsible for running, managing, analyzing and executing business processes, in addition to BP architects and consultants, and vendors and users of BPM tools.

Additional Information
BPM Think Tank 2008 is produced by the Object Management Group in partnership with BPTrends (www.bptrends.com) and is sponsored by Lombardi Software. OMG is the custodian of the Business Process Modeling Notation™ (BPMN™), the industry standard graphic language for modeling business processes, and its members have developed a full suite of BPM standards. BPTrends is the primary source of business intelligence for business executives and process change practitioners around the globe.

For more information about BPM Think Tank 2008, visit http://www.omg.org/think-tank-topics. 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, 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.

Note to editors: MDA, Model Driven Architecture, OMG Logo, XMI, UML, UML logo and CORBA are registered trademarks, and OMG, Object Management Group, SOA Consortium, MOF, MDA Logos, BPMN, OCRES, OCUP, OCEB and Unified Modeling Language are trademarks of Object Management Group. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Edited by Stephanie