Architecture-Driven Modernization for IT Systems to be Focus of New OMG Workshop; March 22-24, 2004, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Workshop on Architecture-Driven Modernization

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2004

Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) today announced the program for its premiere workshop on Architecture-Driven Modernization (ADM): "A Model-driven Approach to Modernizing IT Systems." Sponsored by ASG Software Solutions, Klocwork, and Relativity Technologies, the workshop will take place March 22-24, 2004 in Chicago, IL, USA. The three-day workshop will feature three tutorials as well as presentation tracks and panels that will explore concepts related to understanding, improvement, redesign, migration and redeployment of existing systems. The complete program and registration page can be found at http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/ADM2004/index.htm.

The tutorials will address the topics of application knowledge reclamation and transformation, managing code at the model level rather than the code level, and the basic concepts of architecture re-factoring. In addition, the themed tracks, "ADM Technical Approaches" and "Practice and Experience," will address diverse topics such as processes and tools supporting system architecture analysis, and design and experience reports from ADM-related projects.

Targeted at both tool vendors and users of modernization tools, two panel discussions will tackle the value of OMG's ADM standardization efforts and requirements for next-generation ADM tools, respectively. It will be beneficial for this audience to explore the outlook of the software transformation industry, and the ways in which the forthcoming OMG specifications to be recommended by the Architecture-Driven Modernization Platform Task Force can change the industry landscape. Integrations of existing tools and cross-pollination between existing methodologies will be discussed and users of modernization tools will be encouraged to present their views on the desired direction for the next generation tools.

A sample of program sessions:

-- "ADM in Air Traffic Control and Critical Systems" presented by

Emmanuel Fuchs, Chief Architect, THALES ATM (Air Traffic

Management)

-- "Application Modernization Study: Leveraging Existing Software

Assets", a tutorial by William Ulrich, President, Tactical

Strategy Group

-- "Asset-based Software Engineering" presented by Charles Stack,

Founder and CEO, Flashline

-- "Effect of Scale on Methodology and Tools for ADM" presented

by James Ryhne, Distinguished Engineer, IBM

For more information contact Kevin Loughry at OMG at [phone], or email [e-mail]. Register at http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/ADM2004/index.htm.

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