OMG Announces Keynote and Case Study Added to Fourth Annual BPM Think Tank 2008

Business Process Management (BPM) event to be held October 6-7,
2008
NEEDHAM, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)), in partnership with
BPTrends, today announced that Jim Sinur, Chief Strategy Officer,
Global 360 will give the keynote presentation "The Economics of
Business Process," and Pat Steinmann, Manager, Request Services
Department, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, will present the case study
"People, Process and Technology: The Evolutionary Nature of
People-centric Processes" at the BPM Think Tank 2008 event. BPM Think
Tank 2008 will be held October 6-7, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago
O'Hare in Chicago, IL, USA. For more information, visit
http://www.omg.org/tt-update.

BPM Think Tank 2008 attendees will participate in at least three
unique, highly interactive BPM Roundtables over the course of two
days. These roundtables are small, interactive group sessions
moderated by subject matter experts who will introduce the topic and
move on to the group discussion that uniquely characterizes BPM Think
Tank. Presentations before and after the roundtable sessions will
focus on business case studies presented by end users with real-world
experience.

-- Keynote Presentation: Jim Sinur, Chief Strategy Officer,
Global 360 "The Economics of Business Process" - There is a
co-dependency between economics and business processes that is
quite unique. The reality of today's economic conditions
drives the need of the kind of productivity and time to market
that BPM brings to the table. Not only is the economic
opportunity great, but BPM affords the kind of agility to keep
current with the changes that are facing businesses today.
This session will explore how the benefit pools link with
business needs as organizations mature in their leverage of
business processes activity.

-- Case Study Presentation: Pat Steinmann, Manager, Request
Services Department, Enterprise Rent-a-Car "People, Process
and Technology: The Evolutionary Nature of People-centric
Processes" - In 2001, the team that managed the receipt of new
work requests in Enterprise Rent-A-Car's IT Department had to
modify their processes in response to a change in the
company's AS/400 platform. Their approach to this change,
improving how they received work, drove additional change and
ultimately transformed the request and fulfillment process
within the IT organization. Pat Steinmann, Department Manager
for Enterprise's Request Services Department, will share this
journey as an illustration of the interdependencies between
people, process and technology and how just getting started on
process improvement will drive change in your organization.

Who Should Attend

BPM Think Tank 2008 is especially relevant to the
business-oriented BPM practitioner. This includes practitioners at all
levels who are responsible for running, managing, analyzing and
executing business processes, in addition to BP architects and
consultants, and vendors and users of BPM tools.

Additional Information

BPM Think Tank 2008 is produced by the Object Management Group in
partnership with BPTrends (www.bptrends.com) and is sponsored by
Lombardi Software and Silver Sponsors Interfacing and Metastorm. For
more information about BPM Think Tank 2008, visit
http://www.omg.org/tt-update. Exhibit space is available; for more
information contact Kevin Loughry at loughry@omg.org, +1-781-444 0404.
Sponsorship opportunities are available; contact Ken Berk at
kenberk@omg.org, +1-781-444 0404.

About BPTrends

BPTrends (www.bptrends.com) is the primary source of business
intelligence for business executives and process change practitioners
around the globe. Industry thought leaders provide analysis and
opinion on trends, directions and best practices relating to all
aspects of business process management. BPTrends is the most
comprehensive, in-depth business process management resource devoted
to educating and informing the market. The BPTrends BP Tools Reports
are the most widely read reports on BP software tools available. With
over 20,000 members, BPTrends is the largest community of BP
Professionals in the world. BPTrends Associates, a BPM professional
services company, provides executive education, training, mentoring
and consulting services and has partnered with Boston University to
deliver the BU BPM Curriculum and Certificate Program.

About the Object Management Group

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, Healthcare, Insurance, Legal Compliance,
Life Sciences Research, Manufacturing Technology, Robotics,
Software-Based Communications and Space.

OMG's modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling
Language(TM) (UML(R)) and Model Driven Architecture(R) (MDA(R)),
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(R)) 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.

Note to editors: MDA, Model Driven Architecture, OMG Logo, XMI,
UML, UML logo and CORBA are registered trademarks, and OMG, Object
Management Group, MOF, MDA Logos, BPMN and Unified Modeling Language
are trademarks of Object Management Group. All other trademarks are
the property of their respective owners.

Object Management Group
Stephanie Covert, 1-843-737-0637
pr@omg.org

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