| OMG has been an international, open membership, not-for-profit
computer industry consortium since 1989. Any organization may join
OMG and participate in our standards-setting process. Our
one-organization-one-vote policy ensures that every organization,
large and small, has a effective voice in our process. Our
membership includes hundreds of organizations, with half being
software end-users in over two dozen vertical markets, and the other
half representing virtually every large organization in the computer
industry and many smaller ones. Most of the organizations that shape
enterprise and Internet computing today are represented on our Board
of Directors. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide
range of technologies, including: Real-time, Embedded and
Specialized Systems, Analysis & Design, Architecture-Driven
Modernization and Middleware and an even wider range of industries,
including: Business Modeling and Integration, C4I, Finance,
Government, Healthcare, Legal Compliance, Life Sciences Research,
Manufacturing Technology, Robotics, Software-Based Communications
and Space.
OMG’s modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling
Language™ (UML®) and Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), enable
powerful visual design, execution and maintenance of software and
other processes, including IT Systems Modeling and Business Process
Management. OMG’s middleware standards and profiles are based on the
Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a
wide variety of industries.
The requirements document that initiates each OMG
standard-setting activity (the Request for Proposal) and other key
documents are available for viewing by anyone, member or not. Email
discussion, meeting attendance, and voting are restricted to
members; though prospective members are invited to attend a meeting
or two as a guest observer.
Dozens of standards organizations and other consortia maintain
liaison relationships with OMG. OMG is an ISO PAS submitter, able to
submit our specifications directly into ISO’s fast-track adoption
process. OMG’s UML, MOF™ and Interface Definition Language (IDL™)
standards are already ISO standards and ITU-T recommendation.
OMG is also the Event Producer for the Internationalization &
Unicode Conferences. OMG has been producing events for fifteen years
and provides a full range of conference management services and
expertise—from conference development, production and support to
targeted messaging and media promotion. OMG’s proven team of
in-house staff and contract service providers have years of
experience organizing, producing and managing large-scale events
including Object World, EclipseCon, the OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit
and now the Internationalization & Unicode Conference. In addition,
OMG currently produces four OMG Technical Meetings, and nine
conferences and workshops every year for its members, in locations
around the world.
For information about joining OMG, please visit
http://www.omg.org/be-a-member-a.htm.
Last updated on
11/09/2007 |
