The International Object Management Organization (OMG) announced significant progress in the model-driven architecture MDA faststart program.
The authorized service providers (QSP) in faststart plan are growing rapidly, and 19 new companies are added: 88 solutions, Ada software, advanced concepts center, ATC registrises, inc ., cephas Consulting, cogenture Limited, compuware, data access technology, finantix, herzum software, inherit, LLC, Io software GmbH, m2vp, metanology, NT/e, Object Computing inc ., osellus, Pathfinder solutions, and X-change technologies.
MDA specifically designed the faststart course to help its end users (software organizations) Integrate MDA in their mission-critical software development activities, this clearly demonstrates the practical value of MDA in a small project of about five weeks. Each faststart QSP has a service organization that has demonstrated practical experience in MDA software development and undertakes to follow this public MDA faststart course designed by OMG.
Michael Gutman, head of OMG's faststart program, believes that "the effectiveness of the MDA faststart program is remarkable. Under the guidance of the slogan" the fastest way to MDA, we have set up an expert team so that end users can start and run the MDA project with their help. More importantly, this project can demonstrate its great commercial value in a short period of time. MDA has started to take off. At this time, our users need OMG to help them get started ".
OMG believes that the MDA faststart plan includes all the elements necessary to use MDA in a company or other IT organization for success:
Assessment-a thorough evaluation of the business and technical fields.
Overview-a one-week analysis conducted by experienced MDA architects to determine more technical details based on the current architecture of the Organization.
Delivery (Transition)-up to a week, generating a series of suggestions and a high-level plan for introducing MD into the target organization. In addition, it includes a seminar on MDA and An MDA practice subject.
OMG standards cover various fields of software development, from design, development to deployment and maintenance, and also provide support for future platforms. Based on these standards, OMG supports a full-lifecycle enterprise development process that maximizes ROI (key to the success of IT companies. OMG standards span various operating systems, programming languages, middleware and network structures, as well as various software development environments. Various modeling standards are the basis of MDA, including the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and common warehouse metamodel) and the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (the Common Object Request Broker Architecture), which is an open platform of the OMG standard and is widely used at present.
OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA and has an American representative office in Washington, DC. It has international market representative offices in Japan, UK, and Germany, it is an international, open member, non-profit computer industry organization. Its member organizations follow a mature and developed process to participate in the writing, adoption and maintenance of various standards.