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Press Releases
Needham, MA and San Francisco, CA–
June 7, 2004 – The Object Management Group™
(OMG™) and The Open Group detailed the synergies between
The Open Group’s TOGAF ADM and OMG’s Model Driven
Architecture® (MDA®) in a white paper highlighting
the benefits of using both methods to develop an architecture
using the TOGAF ADM and then implement that architecture using
MDA.
The TOGAF Architecture Development Method (TOGAF ADM) is a
detailed industry standard method and resource base for development
of enterprise architecture. It offers a method to fill out
any framework of choice, provides a guideline on how to scope
out the architecture activity, and a step-by-step method for
discovering and understanding what the architecture deliverables
should contain.
TOGAF ADM suggests creating models to capture the understanding
in a reusable form, however, it does not specify the modeling
techniques or approaches.
"TOGAF Architecture Development Method is an excellent
approach to creating an enterprise architecture that can be
modeled and implemented based on MDA," said Dr. Richard
Soley, Chairman and CEO of OMG. "Using both methods together
can bring substantial benefits to the users. It is very encouraging
to see the cooperation at the member level."
OMG MDA is the industry’s leading standards-based approach
to model-based system development. It assists with selecting
the right modeling approach and provides means to capture
models, manage those models, translate between models, and
deal with downstream generation of code.
Both TOGAF ADM and MDA are independent of framework used and
complement the use of any framework selected, including the
well-known Zachman framework.
“Using MDA to model some of the architectural building
blocks called out in TOGAF ADM makes a great deal of sense,”
said Allen Brown, President and CEO of The Open Group. “Using
both methods together can bring substantial benefits to the
users, and enable deploying solutions that better meet customer
needs expressed in the architecture.”
Members of The Open Group and OMG plan to get together in
a workshop environment during an upcoming OMG meeting in Washington,
D.C., November 1-5, 2004, and discuss how these synergies
can be further exploited.
“Bridging the gap between architecture and implementation
will bring great value to the industry,” said Terry
Blevins, The Open Group’s CIO. “I am excited at
the opportunity to work with OMG on exploiting these synergies
and jointly providing comprehensive best-of-breed approaches
and methods.“
The white paper can be downloaded at: http://www.opengroup.org/cio/MDA-ADM/.
With well-established standards covering 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. OMG's standards
cover multiple operating systems, programming languages, middleware
and networking infrastructures, and software development environments.
OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA, include the
Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Common Warehouse Metamodel
(CWM). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture,
is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of millions
of deployments running today.
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representative in Washington, DC, and international marketing
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Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit
computer industry specifications consortium. OMG member companies
write, adopt, and maintain the organization’s standards
following a mature, open process. All current OMG specifications
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0404, or by fax at +1-781-444 0320.
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will enable access to integrated information within and between
enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability.
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and share best practices; to facilitate interoperability,
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and to operate the industry’s premier certification
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