OMG Announces Program for Building a Service Oriented Architecture with BPM and MDA Workshop.

NEEDHAM, Mass. -- October 16-19, 2006 - Burlingame, CA, USA

The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) today announced the program for its Building a Service Oriented Architecture with Business Process Management and Model Driven Architecture(R) (MDA(R)) workshop. Sponsored by media sponsors Application Development Trends (www.adtmag.com) and ebizQ (www.ebizq.net), and Silver Sponsors Appian (www.appian.com) and intelliun (www.intelliun.com), the workshop will take place October 16-19, 2006 in Burlingame, California, USA. Judith Hurwitz, president of Hurwitz & Associates, will give the keynote presentation and Shane Pearson, vice president of Product Management at BEA Systems, will give the technical keynote.

With the growing acceptance and popularity of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), computing systems now extend far beyond the firewall to automate enterprise-wide business processes, covering sales, supply chain, manufacturing, delivery, payment, HR, and more. The accurate capture and representation of business processes requires its own modeling environment that must merge smoothly with application modeling in order to feed into the software development, execution, maintenance, and evolution cycles that sustain and grow a business.

This workshop will examine the entire automation process starting with Business Process Modeling (BPM) and extending through application modeling, development, deployment, and evolution via OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA). Along the way, experts will present and discuss the potential showstoppers security and semantic interoperability; panel discussions will air both vendor and end-user viewpoints; and case studies at the beginning and end of the program will keep discussion well grounded.

Workshop Agenda Topics:

Keynotes

--The Future of SOA: the Industrialization of Software, by Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates

--Bridging the Gaps Between People, Applications and Systems, by Shane Pearson, BEA Systems

Tutorials

--Introduction to the MDA, Unified Modeling Language and their Applicability to SOA, by Jim Amsden, IBM

--Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services, by Paul Brown, TIBCO Software, Inc.

--Identifying and Planning Services within Policy Framework, by David Sprott, CBDI Forum and John C. Butler, Everware-CBDI

--Introduction to OMG's Business Process Modeling Notation, by Dr. Stephen White, IBM

Session Topics

--Using BPM and MDA to Establish SOA Throughout the Enterprise and Beyond

--Best Practice in Design and Implementation of BPM/MDA/SOA

--Security in Large SOA Systems

--Standards in BPM, MDA and SOA

--Semantic Aspects and Ontologies

--Tool Chains: Working a Design from BPM, through MDA to Implementation

--Case Studies in BPM, MDA and SOA

Panels

--Integrators and Tool Implementers

--Case Studies: Lessons Learned

The early-bird registration discount is available until September 18, 2006. To register, visit http://www.omg.org/soa-pr.

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

About The OMG

With well-established standards covering systems and software from design and development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI, the key to successful IT and system development. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA(R), include the Unified Modeling Language(TM) (UML(R)), the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM(TM)) and other enterprise modeling standards. CORBA(R), the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today. Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, the Object Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. More information about OMG can be found at www.omg.org.

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