Business Enterprise Integration DTF Info Page

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Mission:

Contacts:

The Business Enterprise Integration Domain Task Force mission is to develop specifications that will promote inter- and intra-enterprise business integration and collaboration. This will be achieved by developing shared models that support business modeling and the integration and collaboration of systems, processes, and information across the enterprise, including business partners and customers.

Main areas of enterprise integration are:

Business language, vocabulary, and rules,
Business modeling,
BPM (Business Process Management),
BIM (Business Information Management),
EAI (Enterprise Application Integration),
B2B (Business to Business collaboration),
Web Services Information and Processes, and
Security Policy and Management.

Examples of shared models within these areas include:

Workflow management,
Knowledge management,
Business semantics for business rules,
Business rule management,
Production rule representation,
Software portfolio management,
Electronic business documents,
Negotiation facility,
Business metadata management.

To achieve its mission, the task force will prepare requests for proposals, evaluate responses and recommend proposals for adoption as OMG specifications. It will facilitate and promote:

Use of MDA (Model Driven Architecture) to specify specialized meta models, computation independent models and platform independent models;
Collaboration with other OMG subgroups to identify opportunities for shared models.
Collaboration with other industry groups to identify opportunities for shared models.
Simplicity in specifying, using and deploying shared models for business owners, planners, managers, analysts and application developers;
Interoperability between independently developed components that support enterprise integration.

Co-Chairs:	Mr. Fred A. Cummins, EDS, fredcummins@acm.org
	Mr. Stan Hendryx, Hendryx & Associates stan@hendryxassoc.com

How to get involved:

If you are interested in getting involved with this group, want more information or would like to come as a guest to an upcoming meeting and obtain temporary access to the mailing list, please contact one of our Account Representative or contact one of the Chairs.

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If you have any questions about adopted specifications, please feel free to contact the tech-editor.

Hot topic!!!

BPMI merged with OMG. BPMI has merged with OMG, and much of the work of BPMI is expected to be taken up by the BEIDTF. In addition, OMG has organized a BPMI Steering Committee to advise the OMG Board and the BEIDTF on current issues and assist in improving recognition of OMG as a standards organization for business people.

BEIDTF addresses specifications that have a business (vs technical) focus and are not specific to any particular industry. In the past, these have been specifications for interfaces. In th e past few years, the primary focus of BEIDTF has shifted to development of specifications for modeling aspects of an enterprise. This is a large and complex domain. The current approach is to develop specific capabilitie that have current business value, anticipating to the extent possible, how these individual solutions will ultimately fit into a more comprehensive and integrated enterprise modeling capability.