OMG Announces Co-Sponsors for SOA, MDA and Web Services Workshop: Integrating the Enterprise and Beyond - March 27-30, 2006 - Fairfax, VA, USA.

NEEDHAM, Mass. -- The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)), today announced that Everware-CBDI (www.everware.com) and M1 Global (www.m1global.org) are co-sponsoring its Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Model Driven Architecture(R) (MDA(R)) and Web Services Workshop: Integrating the Enterprise and Beyond. Media sponsors are Application Development Trends and Web Services Journal. The workshop will take place March 27-30, 2006 in Fairfax, VA, USA.

Today's state-of-the-art infrastructure couples Web Services (WS) loosely into a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), designed and built with the assistance of OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA), since model-driven development is a necessity for these large and complex systems. During the workshop, tutorials and technical talks will cover the state of the art in design, implementation, and execution of WS/SOA systems that cover the enterprise and extend out through the firewall.

During the workshop, Everware-CBDI Chief Architect John C. Butler will give a technical plenary presentation entitled "An SOA Roadmap: SOA adoption impacts the entire enterprise IT ecosystem." The presentation will introduce a practical approach to managing this change covering architecture, infrastructure, process, organization and projects with a mapping to the OMG specifications.

Also presenting will be David Zygmont, Chief Technology Officer, M1 Global Solutions, Inc. on "How to Bring UML, BPMN and MDA Together in an SOA." The presentation will discuss ways to bring UML(R), BPMN(TM), MDA and SOA together to improve collaboration, compliance, productivity and business processes--CIOs' top concerns of 2006.

Industry experts will describe best practices at every stage of the application lifecycle -- from modeling for requirements gathering and design, through WS and SOA for implementation and deployment, to the latest work in security and semantic interoperability. Case studies by early adopters, presentations by tool developers, and demonstrations will combine to show how SOA, WS, and MDA combine to build an interoperability environment that extends business automation beyond the firewall to encompass the enterprise's customers and suppliers.

The early-bird registration discount is available until February 27, 2006. To register, visit http://www.omg.org/soa-mda-r.

The OMG invites anyone interested in SOA, Web Services and MDA, and vendors to attend. Agenda, hotel and registration information is available at http://www.omg.org/soa-mda. Exhibit space is available; for more information contact Kevin Loughry at [e-mail], [phone]. Sponsorship opportunities are available; contact Ken Berk at [e-mail], [phone].

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