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{{Infobox Organizationorganization

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The group provides only specifications, not implementations. But before a specification can be accepted as a standard by the group, the members of the submitter team must guarantee that they will bring a conforming product to market within a year. This is an attempt to prevent unimplemented (and unimplementable) standards. Other private companies or open source groups are encouraged to produce conforming products and OMG is attempting to develop mechanisms to enforce true interoperability.

OMG hosts four technical meetings per year for its members and interested nonmembers. The Technical Meetings provide a neutral forum to discuss, develop and adopt standards that enable software interoperability.

== History ==

Founded in 1989 by eleven companies (including [[Hewlett-Packard Company|Hewlett-Packard]], [[IBM]], [[Sun Microsystems]], [[Apple Computer]], [[American Airlines]], iGrafx, and [[Data General]]), OMG's initial focus was to create a heterogeneous [[Distributed computing|distributed]] [[object (computing)|object]] standard. The founding executive team included Christopher Stone and John Slitz. Current leadership includes Chairmanchairman and CEO [[Richard Soley]], President and COO Bill Hoffman and Vice President and Technical Director Jason McC. Smith.

Since 2000, the group's international headquarters has been located in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]].

In 1997, the [[Unified Modeling Language]] (UML) was added to the list of OMG adopted technologies. UML is a standardized general-purpose modeling language in the field of object-oriented software engineering.

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In 2006 the [[Business Process Model and Notation]] (BPMN) was adopted as a standard by OMG. In 2007 the [[Business Motivation Model]] (BMM) was adopted as a standard by the OMG. The BMM is a metamodel that provides a vocabulary for corporate governance and strategic planning and is particularly relevant to businesses undertaking [[governance]], [[regulatory compliance]], [[business transformation]] and [[strategic planning]] activities.

In 2009 OMG, together with the [[Software Engineering Institute]] at [[Carnegie Mellon]] launched the [[CISQ|Consortium of IT Software Quality]] (CISQ).

In 2011 OMG formed the Cloud Standards Customer Council.<ref>[http://www.cloud-council.org/ Cloud Standards Customer Council]</ref> Founding sponsors included [[CA Technologies|CA]], [[IBM]], [[Kaavo]], [[Rackspace]] and [[Software AG]]. The CSCC is an OMG end user advocacy group dedicated to accelerating cloud's successful adoption, and drilling down into the standards, security and interoperability issues surrounding the transition to the cloud.

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Late 2012 early 2013, the group's Board of Directors adopted the Automated Function Point (AFP) specification.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.omg.org/news/releases/pr2013/01-17-13.htm|title=OMG Adopts Automated Function Point Specification|author=Julie Pike|date=2013-01-17|work=OMG|access-date=August 13, 2016}}</ref> The push for adoption was led by the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ). AFP provides a standard for automating the popular [[function point]] measure according to the counting guidelines of the International Function Point User Group (IFPUG).

On March 27, 2014, OMG announced it would be managing the newly formed [[Industrial Internet Consortium]] (IIC).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.omg.org/news/releases/pr2014/03-27-14.htm | title=OMG to Manage the Industrial Internet Consortium | work=OMG | date=2014-03-27 | access-date=August 13, 2016 | author=Julie Pike}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140327005635/en/OMG-Manage-Industrial-Internet-Consortium|title=OMG to Manage the Industrial Internet Consortium|date=2014-03-27|website=www.businesswire.com|language=en|access-date=2019-11-07}}</ref>

== Ratified ISO Standards ==