OMG is a non-profit organization that develops enterprise standards for the computer industry on a worldwide scale. Similar to the OASIS and W3C international standards bodies, it has the largest scale with 500 affiliated organizations. It is well-known for establishing the specifications for UML, BPMN and other graphical notation techniques.
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OMG Summary
The Object Management Group (OMG) is well-known around the world for the following standards specifications:
- CORBA® (Common Object Request Broker Architecture, 1991 - ): A standard that creates an environment where different software can intercommunicate.
- MDA® (Model-Driven Architecture, 1990s - ): A concept for writing software programs with the focus on UML (modeling).
- UML® (Unified Modeling Language, 1997 - ): A modeling standard for information systems blueprints
- BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation): A notation standard for business flow (business model notation standard)
OMG™ is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry consortium.
The original purpose was to develop a standard to make different applications (distributed objects) collaborate. In comparison with W3C, OASIS and other standards bodies, there is a strong tendency at OMG to deal with ‘standards that are necessary from the viewpoint of user corporations.'
OMG also submits proposals to the UN and other public standards organizations (ISO/IEC, UN/CEFACT etc.)
Other Standards
- CWM: Common Warehouse Metamodel
- MOF: Meta-Object Facility
- DDS: Data-Distribution Service for Real-time Systems
- SysML: OMG Systems Modeling Language
- XMI: XML Metadata Interchange®
Organizational Structure
- Board of Directors
- Architecture Board
- Platform Technology Committee: field non-specific technologies (MOF, UML, etc.)
- Domain Technology Committee: field-specific technologies (BPMN, BPDM, etc.)
History
- April 1989 OMG is established
- October 1991 OMG releases CORBA 1.0
- July 1995 OMG releases CORBA 2.0
- November 1997 OMG releases UML 1.1
- March 1998 OMG releases CORBA 2.2
- March 1999 OMG releases CORBA 3.0
- October 2004 OMG releases UML 2.0
- May 2004 BPMI.org releases BPMN 1.0
- January 2008 OMG releases BPMN 1.1
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Reference Documents
- OMG
- OMG Japanese website
- Latest Trends in Business Objects
- BPMN Information (OMG): Formal specification releases for BPMN 1.0, BPMN 1.1 etc.
- Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN 1.0) (Japanese version) (J-Sys Software Co., Ltd, PDF 2.87 MB, 308 pages)
- Survey Report on the Activities of Information and Communications Related Fora (March 2006, The Telecommunication Technology Committee)
- Developing Embedded Systems That Are Independent of Programming Language
