Company Profile for Object Management Group.

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Introducing the Object Management Group(TM)

The Object Management Group (OMG(TM)) is an international organization of information system vendors, software vendors, and IT end-user companies. Through its members, the OMG produces and maintains specifications for interoperable software for the enterprise and Internet, for real-time and safety-critical applications, for embedded systems, and other networked environments. With well-established standards covering software development from design, through development, to deployment and maintenance, the OMG supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration.

Based on the Model Driven Architecture(TM) (MDA(TM)), OMG's standards cover application design and implementation. Modeling standards include the Unified Modeling Language(TM) (UML(TM)), MetaObject Facility (MOF(TM)), XML Metadata Interchange (XMI(R)), and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM(TM)). CORBA(R), the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform. OMG also issues rapidly growing suites of both general and industry-specific standard software; participating vertical markets include healthcare, telecommunications, biotechnology, transportation and a dozen others. Based on the MDA, these standards implement business functions equivalently and interoperably on virtually all popular middleware platforms including Web Services, XML/SOAP, C#/.Net, Enterprise JavaBeans, and others besides OMG's own CORBA.

OMG specifications combine to form a foundation and framework for multi-platform enterprise interoperability that covers the full software lifecycle, allowing organizations to leverage their IT assets and maximize their return on software investment. Implementations of OMG specifications are produced by vendors as products, or by end users and others who need a standard solution to a particular computing or business problem to future-proof their software assets.

The focus of the OMG is not just to create commercial consensus through standards, but also to ensure that those standards get used in the marketplace. As it has for over a decade already, OMG continues to nurture the marketplace of interoperable software, one in which users can purchase standards-compliant software "off the shelf."

OMG's membership roster includes many of the world's most successful and innovative system and software vendors, as well as the end-user companies that lead in use of technology to gain a competitive edge. They have made the commitment to participate actively in shaping the future of distributed computing, which they do by attending OMG meetings where they write, adopt, and maintain the organization's standards following a mature, open process. Member companies benefit from early awareness of emerging standards, and the ability to shape them to their architecture and needs. After adoption, when the specifications are made available to everyone for free download on OMG's website and conforming products appear on the marketplace, the entire industry benefits from the economies and capabilities of standardized distributed software.

All current OMG specifications may be downloaded without charge from the organization's website, www.omg.org; the site also provides additional information about OMG and its activities. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC, and international marketing offices in Japan, the UK, and Germany. For information about joining the OMG, or questions not addressed on the website, please contact OMG headquarters by email at [e-mail], by phone at [phone], or by fax at [phone].

Company:                   Object Management Group

Headquarters Address:      250 First Avenue
                           Suite 100
                           Needham, MA 02494

Main Telephone:            781-444-0404

Website:                   www.omg.org

Type of Organization:      Non-profit

Industry:                  Technology

Key Executives: President: Bill Hoffman

CEO:                       Richard Soley

Public Relations
       Contact:            Nancy Lenehan
       Phone:              781-444-0404
       Email:              [e-mail]