Model Driven Architecture (MDA®) provides a non-proprietary and open approach to address business and technology changes. It represents a natural evolution to the history of software engineering, which appeals to a strong and formal separation between functional models (what the system has to do) and technology models (how to use technologies). It allows the creation of assets from models that can be reused across functional domain or platform technology.



The BPM/SOA Consortium is an advocacy group comprised of practitioners, service providers and technology vendors dedicated to promoting the business value, and enabling the successful adoption, of Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by the Global 1000, major government agencies and mid-market businesses.
The BPM/SOA Consortium is a practice area community under the Business Ecology™ Initiative (BEI). BEI provides education, advocacy and member programs to enable organizations to achieve Business Ecology success, employ Actionable Architecture™, and carve a path to business-IT integration.



Business Ecology Initiative (BEI) is a business-technology imperative focused on streamlining business processes, removing waste from technology portfolios, and adjusting resource consumption, to optimize business operations and foster business innovation.



Business Process Modeling Notation™ (BPMN™) is the language that business people use to model business process. Built around a core designed for business management, the language extends to a complete version capable of building models that translate into integrated applications automatically and unambiguously.



Enterprise Architecture: Over the years, IT has accumulated many types of architectural domains and corresponding architecture disciplines to address each domain, e.g., IT has application architecture, infrastructure architecture, security architecture, information architecture and more. Enterprise architecture has been broadly defined to encompass all of these architectural domains. Depending on which expert you ask, the area of enterprise architecture may include, use or overlap with the newest architecture discipline: business architecture.
Successful enterprise architecture practices must give equal emphasis to technology and business concerns. To reap the benefits of business architecture – business visibility and agility – the business architecture must reflect the entire business design, from the point of view of business designers and owners, rather than IT solution delivery. This point of view begins with business motivations, includes key business execution elements – such as operating model, capabilities, value chains, processes, and organizational models – and transcends information technology representations, such as business services, rules, events and information models.



OMG: Founded in 1989, OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies, including: Real-time, Embedded and Specialized Systems, Analysis & Design, Architecture-Driven Modernization and Middleware and an even wider range of industries, including: Business Modeling and Integration, C4I, Finance, Government, Green Computing, Healthcare, Insurance, Legal Compliance, Life Sciences Research, Manufacturing Technology, Robotics, Software-Based Communications and Space.
OMG’s modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) and Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), enable powerful visual design, execution and maintenance of software and other processes, including IT Systems Modeling and Business Process Management. OMG’s middleware standards and profiles are based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a wide variety of industries.
More information about OMG can be found at www.omg.org.
OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA.



TOGAF™ is an industry standard enterprise architecture framework that may be used freely by any organization wishing to develop an enterprise information systems architecture for use within that organization. TOGAF has been developed and continuously evolved since the mid-90’s by representatives of some of the world’s leading IT customer and vendor organizations working in The Open Group's Architecture Forum. Today, more than 80 percent of the Forbes Global top 50 use TOGAF to improve business efficiency within their organizations. More information can be found at www.opengroup.org/togaf/.



The Open Group is a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™ enables access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability. Services for member and third party consortia include strategy, management, innovation, standards, test development and the industry’s premier skills and experience based certification program for IT professionals (ITAC and ITSC). Some of the largest IT buyers and vendors worldwide are Open Group members, including Capgemini, HP, IBM, Kingdee, SAP, US Department of Defense, NASA and many others. More information can be found at www.theopengroup.org.



Administered by The Open Group’s ArchiMate Forum, ArchiMate is an open, independent, global language designed to provide enterprise architects a common vocabulary for describing, analyzing and visualizing enterprise architectures. By creating a single, common language that allows architects to describe, analyst and visualize business domains, the ArchiMate Forum intends to help simplify the processes used within the enterprise architecture community for more effective work outcomes, as well as improve architecture tools offered by vendors. More information can be found at www.opengroup.org/archimate/ and www.archimate.org.