ADVISORY/OMG Hosts Model Driven Architecture Seminar Series in Washington, DC; No Cost Technical Session On Wednesday, October 3, 2001.

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ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Oct. 3)

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2001

On October 3, 2001, the Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) will host a free Model Driven Architecture(TM) (MDA(TM)) informational seminar in Washington, DC. MDA is a new OMG specification that provides an open, vendor-neutral approach to the challenge of interoperability, building upon and leveraging the value of OMG's established modeling standards: Unified Modeling Language(TM) (UML(TM)); Meta-Object Facility(TM) (MOF(TM)); and Common Warehouse Meta-model(TM) (CWM(TM)).

Register for the Washington, DC Seminar at
www.omg.org/mda/seminar/registration.

Location:  Hilton Hotel, Washington Dulles Airport
           13869 Park Center Road
           Herndon, VA  20171

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

The MDA Seminar Series will feature the following three presentations:

Model Driven Architecture : An Introduction

--Dr. Richard Soley, Chairman and CEO of the Object Management

Group will give an overview of the OMG process for defining

standards rapidly, and how the MDA approach can save you time

and money in building and maintaining IT systems.

OMG MDA: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

--Paul Harmon, Senior Consultant Distributed Architecture, and

eBusiness Service for Cutter Consortium, will present a broad

overview of the existing market for business software and

position the need for the OMG's Model Driven Architecture

within that framework.

MDA Reality and Implementation

--Anthony Mallia, Principal Consultant for CIBER, Inc., is a

veteran of two successful software projects that relied on the

model-based techniques now being standardized by OMG's MDA. He

will describe both of these projects, indicating exactly how

and where MDA ensures success, and saves both time and money.

Sponsored by Interactive Objects Software GmbH (www.io-software.com), Kabira Technologies, Inc. (www.kabira.com), Secant Technologies, Inc. (www.secant.com), and Kennedy Carter, Ltd (www.kc.com), Inc., the objective of these information days is to provide a meeting ground in which MDA experts will present the most current information about Model Driven Architecture's adoption and deployment (for sponsorship opportunities please contact Cheryl Lobdell at [e-mail]).

See www.omg.org/mda/seminar for more seminar locations and dates.

About The OMG

With well-established standards covering software from design, through development, to deployment and maintenance, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration. Based on the established Object Management Architecture (OMA) and emerging Model Driven Architecture (MDA), OMG's standards cover application design and implementation. OMG's Modeling standards include the UML (Unified Modeling Language) and CWM (Common Warehouse Metamodel). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform. OMG also issues the CORBAservices and a rapidly-growing set of industry-specific standards in vertical markets including healthcare, telecommunications, biotechnology, transportation and a dozen other areas. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with an office in Tokyo, Japan as well as international marketing offices in the UK and Germany, along with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC.

For information on joining the OMG or additional information, please contact OMG headquarters by phone at [phone], by fax at [phone], or by email at [e-mail]. The OMG provides current information and services for distributed enterprise computing on the World Wide Web at www.omg.org and www.corba.org. Information about OMG Japan can be found at www.omgj.org.

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