Edited September 1, 2006   

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• 4th Annual OMG European Information Days: Quo vadis OMG? – Open BPM Standards
  The 4th Annual OMG European Information Days will be held with emphasis on Business Process Management. Benefit from the most innovative and creative minds of the OMG and receive hands-on information. Obtain valuable insight in the current status and in the future strategy of the OMG after the merger with BPMI. Learn how you can profit from the standards of today in your process management and IT-projects. Set the course for your successful enterprise lifecycle management.
   
  The 4th OMG Information Days 2006 timeline:
   

  September 19th 2006 – Zurich September 20th 2006 – Munich September 21st 2006 – Dusseldorf

  **All OMG-members get a 70 EUR discount**
   
  Further Information / Conference Program (in German)
   
  Online Registration (in German)

• Webinar on “Smart Process Modeling Using BPM Standards” on Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
  The OMG and WfMC are jointly presenting a Webinar on “Smart Process Modeling Using BPM Standards” on Wednesday, September 13th, 2006 at 9 am PDT. During this FREE interactive session sponsored by Fujitsu, experts from the two leading BPM standards bodies will provide an introduction to BPM standards and will be available to advise you and answer questions such as:

1. Why are business process modeling standards important? How can they help preserve investments in process modeling?
2. What is the relationship between BPMN, XPDL and BPEL and when should one consider each of these standards?
3. Are BPM standards finally going main stream?

Click here and register now to reserve your seat. Click here

• EclipseWorld: OMG Member Discount, Sept. 6-8, Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, MA.
  EclipseWorld™ is the industry's first independent conference for enterprise software developers, architects and development managers using Eclipse tools and technologies. OMG members can get $100 off the current Full Event Passport price. Just enter OMGMEMBER when asked for a code during the registration process. This offer is good for new registrations only and cannot be combined with other discounts. For more information about the technical conference and to register, go to www.eclipseworld.net. 

• Save $400 on Software Development Best Practices 2006 Conference
  SD Best Practices, coming to Boston Sept 11-14, delivers the business-critical development training you need to successfully incorporate best practices, quality design and proven management techniques into your development projects.The first-rate curriculum, taught by the industry’s best and brightest speakers, offers over 175 exciting learning and networking opportunities including keynotes, classes, tutorials, case studies, evening birds-of-a-feather gatherings, lively panel discussions, roundtables and parties. Use the code: 6EOMG71 to save $400 on the VIP Pass or to get your FREE Expo Pass today! Learn more at http://sdexpo.com/2006/sdbp/.

• MDA Forum 2006, the first Italian event on Model Driven Architecture (MDA®).  Venice, Italy, November 10, 2006
  
  This event is organized by Soluta.net and is a forum that intends to promote and disseminate MDA®. It will do so with a tutorial, and real industrial case histories where MDA® has been applied. It will also provide an exposition area for tool vendors and consultancy companies. OMG members may use the code OMGMDAFORUM2006 for 20% discount on the morning conference; the afternoon is free to attend. Contact Chiara at +39.338.225.2712 or mdaforum2006@soluta.net or http://mdaforum.soluta.net/en/Register01.aspx. Visit http://mdaforum.soluta.net/en/ for more details.

• The Informa Group are proud to announce the dates of our premier event, the Service Oriented Architecture Conference 2006 on the 28th & 29th November 2006, Four Points by Sheraton Darling Harbour, Sydney.
   
  OMG members will receive a 15% discount!!
  Harness your organisation's information assets and unleash interoperability, reliability and open ended data flow:
   
  • Learn how to strategically evaluate, plan, model and implement a reliable and interoperable SOA
  • Listen to speakers from leading organisations including QBE Insurance, Microsoft, St.George Bank and Suncorp.
  • Enough theory! Interactive panel discussions, case studies and optional hands-on workshops
     
    Call (+612) 9080 4307 or email registration@informa.com.au now!

• The 9th International Business Rules Forum™, the industry's premier event on Business Rules, is joined by the first-ever Rules Technology Summit™, the pre-eminent Rules event for IT Architects and IS Professionals whose common goal is to build agile applications that are more responsive to business needs. Together, these Rules Conferences provide comprehensive coverage of Business Rules and supporting Rules Technologies across their entire life cycle from discovery through implementation. November 5 - 9, 2006 Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.
  
  The Rules Conferences are also hosting Standards in Motion: Rules, Business Strategy, Regulatory Compliance
  
  This one-day conference in a conference, held on November 9, 2006, is dedicated to the current efforts by the leading standard organizations to implement standards supporting business rules best practices and rule technology interoperability.
  
  Standards in Motion is included in the Business Rules Forum and Rules Technology Summit’s registration. Only interested in the Standards in Motion event? Then register to attend only this event.
  
  OMG members qualify for the $100 sponsor discount on their registration for either Rules Conference. For schedule of events and additional conference information, visit our website www.BusinessRulesForum.com or call (877) 604-8622.

• International Conference on Enterprise Systems Theory and Theory in Action
  Dec. 12th-14th 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM,  University of Chicago Gleacher Center
  450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, IL 60611
  URL: www.enterprisesystemtheory.net

  Mathet Consulting, Inc. is proud to announce the "International Conference on Enterprise Systems Theory, and Theory in Action". This unique event, is focused on the theoretical / formal description of enterprises, and networks of enterprises, as systems in the General Systems / Systems theoretic sense. It is the intent of this conference to provide a forum for the exchange of knowledge concerning enterprises as systems in constantly changing economic, legal, and technological environments. It is hoped that such an exchange will initiate the formation of an Enterprise Systems Theory discipline, utilizing and merging concepts and theories from Complex Adaptive Systems, Cybernetics, AI, Games, Natural Systems (neurals, genetics, ecology, evolution), etc. as well as concepts and theories from economics, law, ontology/semiotics, process/service, goals/objectives, cognition/intelligence/learning, knowledge/information, security/privacy, communication(s), etc.

  It is anticipated that the knowledge shared at this conference will have significant import, implications, and value for individual enterprises of all sizes, networks of enterprises, industries, communities of practice, and any other type of organization an enterprise may be part of. We invite all who are interested.

  Visit www.enterprisesystemtheory.net for further information, including a Call for Participation. Alternatively, information can be requested via e-mail at esc@mathet.com

  All OMG members will receive a $150.00 attendance discount. OMG members who will be speakers will receive, in addition, a $250.00 speakers discount.

• The Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) has released a survey that is of particular interest to OMG Members. Taking Software to the World: Results of the LISA 2005 Global Software Survey (http://www.lisa.org/products/gbps/) is the first large-scale examination of the business impact of localized software. The survey results present a very clear roadmap for end users who purchase localized software and for software developers who want to know exactly where to spend their localization development budgets to sell more products. For more information, please click here.
  
  OMG Members qualify for LISA Member pricing ( promo code = IT7rGjzLdh ).
   

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The FutureSense Strategist Newsletter publishes 2-3 times a year & provides identification & analysis of large-scale trends in software & technology development. OMG Members can subscribe to this newsletter by request at futuresense@hartzband.com; please specify email address (the newsletter is only available by email). Dr. David Hartzband, FutureSense Research & ESD, MIT

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OMG PROGRAMS

OMG's Data Distribution Service (DDS) Wiki is now available:

http://portals.omg.org/dds

DDS is the first open international middleware standard directly addressing publish-subscribe communications for real-time and embedded systems. Get information about events, tutorials, whitepapers and specifications as well as discuss DDS systems in this online community. OMG members and non-members alike are invited to check out the Wiki: http://portals.omg.org/dds.

NEW Vendor Directories

Attention all Vendors of BPM, Regulatory Compliance, Modernization, CORBA®, MDA® and UML® related Products and Services:

We have created dynamic product and service directories for several of our standards that will have listing and searching capabilities. Your listing will provide your company with a powerful advertisement for your product or service and of your leadership in the community.

This new listing is free of charge both to list and to search. Simply click HERE

The UML Certification Program from OMG

“Show What You Know”

If you're using OMG's Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®), here's your opportunity to show the world you know your stuff. OMG's new worldwide UML Certification Program provides an objective measure of your UML specification knowledge and tells the rest of the IT community that you have serious modeling credentials.
http://www.omg.org/uml-certification/program.htm 

Compliance Contributors Wanted

The Compliance Global Regulatory Information Database is an open database of rules, regulations, standards, and government guidance documents that require IT action, and a survey of the regulatory climate around the world. The goal of this project is to provide the de facto compliance reference guide for global IT managers.

OMG and ORCA invite any person or organization with knowledge of a compliance rule/regulation to submit their information for inclusion in the database. Contributors should fill out the form available at: http://www.omg.org/op-letter.

OMG members who contribute to the C-GRID project will be recognized at a special event held in conjunction with the OMG TC meeting in Washington, DC in December 2006.

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