BPMI merges its corporation with OMG

August 8^th, 2005

QoS Labs, a leading company in solutions and services based on standards and best practices related with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), is happy to announce its membership to Object Management Group (OMG). Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) and Object Management Group (OMG) announced the merger of their Business Process Management (BPM) activities to the public on June 29th, 2005. QoS Labs was already a member of BPMI since April of this year.

OMG is an international open membership organization, not-for-profit consortium leader in producing and maintaining computer industry specifications for interoperable applications.  QoS Labs is proud to announce our newest membership with this well-known organization, as is Object Management Group.

OMG’s most important specifications include a multi-platform Model Driven Architecture (MDA).  This platform is based on modeling specifications such as: Unified Modeling Language (UML), Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Object Management Architecture (OMA), Domain Specifications, OMG’s specification process, and everything else OMG.

OMG will continue implementing BPMI’s Business Process Management activities, focusing on standards development to support the entire life-cycle of business process management – from process design, through deployment, execution, maintenance, and optimisation.  Additionally OMG will maintain BPMI’s Initiative objective, which is to promote and develop open, complete and royalty free XML-based standards that support and enable Business Process Management (BPM) in industry.

OMG will be hosting an OMG Technical kick-off event in at Atlanta, Georgia on September 12th through the 16th, to introduce the organization to all its new members.  The purpose of this event is to involve new and current members in decisions guiding the course OMG, where all its members can participate in the Task Force, make their voice heard and vote on the development of important IT issues.

About OMG (www.omg.org)

Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, the Object Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium, with well-established standards covering software since the design and development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to evolution 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 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.

About BPMI (www.bpmi.org)

BPMI.org (the Business Process Management Initiative) is a non-profit corporation that aims to empower companies of all sizes, across all industries, to develop and operate business processes that span multiple applications and business partners, behind the firewall and over the Internet. The Initiative's core objective is to promote and develop open, complete and royalty free xml-based standards that support and enable Business Process Management (BPM) in industry. BPMI.org embraces existing standards where appropriate, working with complementary standards bodies such as the OMG, WfMC and OASIS. In areas where standards are lacking, BPMI.org focuses on standards development to support the entire lifecycle of business process management-from process design, through deployment, execution, maintenance, and optimization.

About QoS Labs

QoS Labs offers neutral consulting, integration, provisioning, and management of Web Services for the enterprise and Government markets. QoS Labs’ SOA enabling technologies and reference architecture allow its customers to leverage their e-Business strategies, in order to gain agility and management control, reutilize existing IT assets, reduce operational costs, and minimize complexity of their ICT integration environments and core business process automation. QoS Labs’ enabling technologies, Best Practices and service-oriented solutions can be found at www.qoslabs.com.