OMG Introduction Dr. Richard Mark Soley
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The document introduces the Object Management Group (OMG) and its standards and initiatives. OMG develops modeling standards and specifications to facilitate distributed application integration and interoperability. Its Model Driven Architecture (MDA) promotes modeling applications from business goals to implementation. Key OMG standards include the Unified Modeling Language (UML), which is the most widely adopted modeling language, and standards for business process modeling, software quality assurance, and more.
OMG Introduction Dr. Richard Mark Soley
- 1. CISQ Executive Forum: OMG Introduction Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D. Chairman and CEO A Story from My Hometown G a a Great Baltimore Fire o 1904 o of 90 Response from Philadelphia, Washington, New York, Virginia, Atlantic City… hundreds of firefighters Burned two days, 55 hectares 1
- 2. Standards Are Important Sometimes they have life-or-death life-or- consequences Successful standards start, maintain and build ecosystems & businesses Standards are product differentiators: Marks of quality Expertise (certification, validation) Interoperability, Portability & Reuse Heterogeneity is Permanent Programming languages ~3 million COBOL programmers ~1.6 million VB programmers ~1.1 million C/C++ programmers Operating systems Unix, MVS, VMS, MacOS, Windows (all 10!), PalmOS… Windows 3.1: it’s still out there! Embedded devices (mobile, set-top, etc.) E b dd d d i ( bil set-t t t ) Networks Ethernet, ATM, IP, SS7, Firewire, USB Bluetooth, 802.11b, HomeRF 2
- 3. The integration picture is always changing Executive decisions, mergers & acquisitions have a way of surprising us… Bringing Down Cost of Adaptation 3
- 4. OMG’s Mission Since 1989 Develop an architecture using appropriate architecture, technology, for modeling & distributed application integration, guaranteeing: reusability of components interoperability & portability basis in commercially available software Specifications f l available S ifi ti freely il bl Implementations exist Member- Member-controlled not-for-profit not-for- Who Are OMG? AT&T Georgia Inst. Tech. NEC SELEX ATLAS Harris NIST Siemens Boeing Hewlett Packard NTT DoCoMo TCS CA Hitachi Northrop Grumman THALES Credit Suisse HSBC OASIS Toshiba CSC IBM Oracle Unisys EADS iCMG PRISM VHA Energistics INRIA Progress W3C Ericsson MITRE Sankhya Wells Fargo Fujitsu Model Driven Soln. SAP zapthink 4
- 5. OMG’s Best-Known Successes Best- Common Object Request Broker Architecture CORBA® (and the DDSTM Publish/Subscribe model) remains the only language- language- and platform-neutral interoperability standard platform- Unified Modeling Language UML® the world’s mostly widely adopted standard modeling language Common Warehouse Metamodel CWMTM, the integration of the last two data warehousing initiatives Business Process Modeling Notation BPMNTM widely adopted for business analysis Meta- Meta-Object Facility MOFTM, the language-defining language language- XML Metadata Interchange XMITM, the XML-UML standard XML- Going “Up The Stack” OMG s OMG’s history has been to address the “technology stack” from the bottom up: Object orientation Distributed middleware Modeling Vertical market models Business management: process & rules 5
- 6. Modeling is the Focus Modeling, especially graphical modeling is Modeling A natural human approach to design Thousands of years old Allows expression of design separate from implementation, as implementations change Allows for long-term maintenance & integration long- g g Is an accelerator of implementation Is technology-independent technology- 18th century B.C. multiplication table The Model Driven Architecture OMG’s Model Driven Architecture (MDATM) initiative is aimed precisely at modeling “up and down the stack” You have an opportunity to increase your bottom line by integrating your assets Industry standards support that goal by future-proofing your future- application design The MDA will help you integrate the mix you have today, and give you an architecture to support the unexpected Focus on integrating legacy applications Ensure smooth integration of COTS applications Models are testable and simulatable The aim: a 20-year software architecture 20- 6
- 7. Model Driven Architecture Shared Languages are Important The Unified Modeling Language is the successor to the dozens of OO A&D notations of th early ’90 d f t ti f the l ’90s UML is broadly adopted, as are other key OMG modeling languages: BPMN, SysML, CWM, MOF, XMI Initial UML 1.x standardized in 1997 Vendor- Vendor-neutral worldwide certification easily available Standardization primed the market Hundreds f books H d d of b k Dozens of commercial tools Widely available training Supported by an open process UML 2.0 updates came from 54 companies 7
- 8. UML Certification Program (OCUP) OMG/UTI UML Certification Program Started November 2003 Worldwide (English & Japanese) Books available in English, Japanese & German Three levels of accomplishment Focused on UML 2.0 d Other certifications available: OMG Realtime/embedded modeling Endorsed! Business Process Modeling Systems Engineering (2010) OMG’s Breadth of Standards Besides key modeling distributed modeling, computng & realtime/embedded standards, OMG develops standards in Healthcare Financial Services Telecommunications Government G t Military Logistics Milit L i ti Manufacturing M f t i Robotics Systems Engineering Military Communications 8
- 9. Supporting Software Quality OMG s OMG’s software modeling expertise supports Software Modernization standards Software Assurance standards The same technology supports static measures of software quality! Building Ecosystems 9
- 10. Why OMG? The right bac g ou d in software modeling e g t background so t a e ode g Rapid, neutral, international standardizatoin process (typically 18 months) Focused on real implementation, not paper standards 20 year’s experience creating wide adoption and billion-euro ecosystems billion- Balanced between vendors & users To Get More Information OMG General Information http://www.omg.org/ OMG Software Quality Initiative http://www.omg.org/cisq/ Contact the Author soley@omg.org 10