OMG Announces IBM Support for Model Driven Architecture; MDA at Core of WebSphere Open Standards Platform

Business Wire, Nov 14, 2001

Business/Technology Editors

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2001

The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) announces that the OMG's Model Driven Architecture(TM) (MDA(TM)), the standard that addresses the complete life cycle of designing, implementing, integrating, and managing applications as well as data using open standards, is fully deployed throughout IBM's WebSphere suite of tools.

According to IBM's WebSphere MDA Architect, Stephen A. Brodsky, Ph.D., OMG MDA is a standard that has lasting power because it is independent of platform or vendor. He states, "OMG's work outcome ensures that IBM delivers products that implement a standard upon which everyone builds. Therefore, we end up with outstanding architectural flexibility and best practices in modeling and integration techniques, improved portability and interoperability, and most importantly models that evolve independent of the implementation. This is what WebSphere delivers with the underlying OMG Model Driven Architecture core."

MDA is the only standardized business integration strategy that provides a technology and vendor-neutral platform that future-proofs deployment.

Tim McCrimmon, Senior WebSphere Product Manager, of IBM's Software Group agrees, "IBM's WebSphere successfully deals with the complicated issues of integration and longevity in today's software application market. We are proud that the WebSphere architecture includes the open standard, Model Driven Architecture, a fact that allows for dynamic competition, peak time-to-market, performance, ROI, and worldwide support. OMG's MDA approach is a significant contribution to the industry."

To find out more about OMG Model Driven Architecture, visit www.omg.org/mda.> About The OMG

With well-established standards covering software from design, through development, to deployment and maintenance, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration. Based on the established Object Management Architecture (OMA) and emerging Model Driven Architecture (MDA), OMG's standards cover application design and implementation. OMG's Modeling standards include the UML (Unified Modeling Language) and CWM (Common Warehouse Metamodel). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform. OMG also issues the CORBAservices and a rapidly-growing set of industry-specific standards in vertical markets including healthcare, telecommunications, biotechnology, transportation and a dozen other areas. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with an office in Tokyo, Japan as well as international marketing offices in the UK and Germany, along with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC.

For information on joining the OMG or additional information, please contact OMG headquarters by phone at 1-781-444 0404, by fax at 1-781-444 0320, or by email at info@omg.org. The OMG provides current information and services for distributed enterprise computing on the World Wide Web at www.omg.org and www.corba.org. Information about OMG Japan can be found at www.omgj.org.

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