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Press Releases
Boston – July 22, 2004
- The Integration Consortium (IC), The Open Group and the
Object Management Group™ (OMG™) today announced
that the companies have entered into a strategic collaboration.
The purpose of the collaboration is for all parties to come
together and start establishing The Open Group’s TOGAF
Architecture Development Method (TOGAF ADM) and OMG’s
Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®) as key components
of the IC’s recently launched Global Integration Framework
(GIF).
Included in the launch of the GIF at the IC’s Global
EAI Summit in May were The Open Group’s TOGAF ADM and
OMG’s MDA. The TOGAF ADM provides the framework with
a guide for creating a standardized, enterprise architecture
that companies refer to during integration projects. OMG's
Model Driven Architecture supplies the GIF with the industry-standard
Unified Modeling Language® (UML®) and a set of profiles
that help automate the transformations on the path from business
model to coded application. Following the launch, the three
organizations will work together to combine the complementary
capabilities of TOGAF ADM, MDA, and the GIF into an architecture
and process that simplify application interoperability and
streamline integration. The three organizations will hold
a face to face meeting during an upcoming OMG meeting in Washington,
D.C., November 1-5, 2004.
" The Integration Consortium was created to foster collaboration
between all integration stakeholders. The foresight shown
by our collective organizations is a powerful message that
the integration industry is moving forward proactively,”
remarked Michael Kuhbock, Co-Chairman and Founder of the Integration
Consortium.
John Schmidt, President of the Integration Consortium, stated,
“The GIF goals are to unify various dimensions of integration
as a discipline including terminology, methodology, software
frameworks and architecture. In order to achieve these goals,
the Integration Consortium is driving a series of reference
implementations through its various teams with an end-user
organization at the core of each effort. The set of standards
under the MDA and TOGAF umbrellas are an essential element
of a formal discipline for integration and necessary to achieve
the desired cost efficiencies and transparency between business
users, IT providers and IS implementers.”
“ Our joint work with the Integration Consortium and
OMG on solving interoperability challenges and bridging the
gap between creating an enterprise architecture and its implementation
will bring substantial benefits to users, “said Allen
Brown, the President and CEO of The Open Group. “The
Open Group’s members embrace the opportunity to make
yet another step towards making their vision of Boundaryless
Information Flow™ a reality.” Allen continued:
“Coordination of activities among the consortia leverages
the resources of all three organizations to reduce the confusion
and fragmentation of customer resources and to increase understanding
of architecture and integration processes.”
“ OMG is delighted to be part of a growing movement
to establish connections between standardized technology frameworks
such as the Integration Consortium’s GIF and The Open
Group’s TOGAF ADM. With OMG’s MDA, new opportunities
for integration arise due to its unique ability to allow system
infrastructures to evolve in response to a never-ending parade
of platforms, while preserving and leveraging existing technology
investments,” said Richard Soley, Chairman and CEO,
Object Management Group.
The Integration Consortium is a non-profit, leading industry
body responsible for influencing the direction of the integration
industry. It’s members champion Integration Acumen by
establishing standards, guidelines, best practices, research
and the articulation of strategic and measurable business
benefits. The Integration Consortium’s motto is “Forging
Integration Value.”
The mission of the member-driven Integration Consortium is
to establish universal seamless integration which engages
industry stakeholders from the business & technology community.
Among the sectors represented in the Integration Consortium
membership are end user corporations, independent software
vendors (ISVs), hardware vendors, system integrators, academic
institutions, non-profit institutions and individual members,
as well as various industry leaders. Information on the Integration
Consortium is available at www.integrationconsortium.org
or by sending an e-mail to
information@integrationconsortium.org.
The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral
consortium, whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™
will enable access to integrated information within and between
enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability.
The Open Group works with customers, suppliers, consortia
and other standard bodies. Its role is to capture, understand
and address current and emerging requirements, establish policies
and share best practices; to facilitate interoperability,
develop consensus, and evolve and integrate specifications
and open source technologies; to offer a comprehensive set
of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia;
and to operate the industry’s premier certification
service. Further information on The Open Group can be found
at http://www.opengroup.org.
Note to editors: Boundaryless Information
Flow is a trademark of The Open Group in the U.S. and other
countries.
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.
Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with a U.S. government
representative in Washington, DC, and international marketing
representatives in Japan, the UK, and Germany, the Object
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
may be downloaded without charge from the organization’s
website, www.omg.org;
the site also provides additional information about OMG and
its activities. For information on joining the OMG, or questions
not addressed on the website, please contact OMG headquarters
by email at info@omg.org,
by phone at +1-781-444 0404, or by fax at +1-781-444 0320.
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