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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 14, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 28
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Systems/Enterprise:
ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE SIG
RECOMMENDS OMG MDA FOR FED DATA
The Object Management Group (OMG) announces that the Industry Advisory
Council's (IAC) Enterprise Architecture SIG recommended the use of the OMG's
Model Driven Architecture (MDA) as a viable way to build integrated Federal
Government Data Systems. Released in June 2003, the report is aimed at
educating government Chief Information Officers, Executives, Business and IT
Managers about this new approach to software development that delivers the
ultimate benefits of reduced costs and increased efficiency across federal
agencies. Entitled, "Business Integration Driven by Business Lines," the
paper offers a perspective on the Data Reference Model as it relates to Cross
Agency challenges with standards based architecture to support federated data
management.
MDA is recommended as an integration solution because it separates the
fundamental logic behind a specification from the specifics of the particular
middleware that implements it. This allows rapid development and delivery of
new interoperability specifications that use new deployment technologies but
are based on proven, tested business models. Organizations can use MDA to meet
the integration challenges posed by new platforms, while preserving their
investments in existing business logic based on existing platforms.
"The OMG is delighted that the IAC has chosen MDA as the technology of
choice
for enterprise software integration. It provides proof that MDA is the
direction needed to solve the vexing problem of integrating what federal
agencies have in place. MDA can provide far reaching benefits, such as
enabling, for example, the Department of Homeland Security to better search
arrest records in order to identify threats to national security," remarked
Dr. Richard Soley, Chairman and CEO, OMG.
"Use of open standards is a very important aspect of information sharing
across government agencies for government to effectively deliver citizen
centric services. Within the IAC EA team's approach and concept to address
business process driven data integration, OMG's MDA, Unified Modeling Language
and Meta Object Facility played a key role in ensuring that information can be
shared across business lines independent of platforms that the data resides
on," said Venkatapathi Puvvada (PV), Unisys Global Public Sector CTO and
Chairman of the IAC EA SIG.
The Industry Advisory Council (IAC) is a broadly based organization of
information technology (IT) professionals representing private sector
organizations that provide information resources management products and
services to government.
Visit
www.omg.org/mda/mda_files/IAC_report.pdf or
www.iaconline.org/
to access the report.
About The OMG
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 Web site, 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 Web site, please contact OMG headquarters by
email at info@omg.org, by phone at 781-444
0404, or by fax at 781-444 0320.
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