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OMG Regulatory Compliance Alliance (ORCA) and Regulatory
Compliance SIG to Address the IT Impact of Regulatory Compliance
Requirements

The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)), today announced an
initiative to help Chief Compliance Officers, IT directors, CFOs and
Legal executives address the IT impact of the many regulatory
compliance requirements. The repository will
include a synopsis of relevant regulations and references to best
practices and emerging standards."
Use of Apdex with FineGround solutions will directly aid a CIO's ability
to achieve his/her top three priorities. It is
an IT-enabled process improvement , a metric that can help quantify IT and
business alignment, and is a direct measure of internal customer satisfaction
improvement. Founded in 2004 by Peter Sevcik of NetForecast, the Alliance,
is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Soley, Chairman and CEO of OMG. Improve internal customer satisfaction

According to Sevcik, Apdex directly addresses these top three goals.

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Apdex fills the gap between timing data and insight by specifying a
uniform way to measure and report on the user experience .

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They can then take that number and align IT with their business
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The pain is especially keen for companies
that do business in multiple countries that frequently have
conflicting regulatory requirements," said Adrian Bowles, Program
Director, Regulatory Compliance at OMG. Apdex is a single number that applies across applications and
measures the effectiveness of IT investments and helps CIOs and CEOs
understand whether their applications are delivering on promises or just
operating . By quantifying the
user's experience with an application, Apdex shows whether an enterprise's IT
systems are simply 'up and running' or actively contributing to user
productivity," says Apdex Alliance Founder Peter Sevcik and president of
NetForecast, an Alliance member. Apdex is available to any organization seeking insight into their
IT investments.

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Identifying all the appropriate laws for all geographic operating
markets - and dealing with inconsistencies - is a daunting task for
IT. OMG
is holding a limited-seating seminar entitled "Leveraging IT Standards
for Regulatory Compliance Requirements," on June 21, 2005.org

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of Object Management Group., the leader in
Web application delivery, today announced its involvement as a founding member
of the Application Performance Index (Apdex) Alliance.

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FineGround Joins Apdex Alliance Featuring New Application Performance Index

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Apdex Addresses CIO's Top Three Concerns

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"We used to make a big distinction between regulated and
unregulated industries, but today, virtually every enterprise is
constrained by a combination of governance, privacy, security and
environmental regulations. in support
of the standards effort."
The newly released Apdex converts many measurements into one number on a
uniform scale of 0-to-1 (0 = no users satisfied, 1 = all users satisfied).

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"The goal of the OMG
Regulatory Compliance Alliance is to complement the OMG compliance
standards effort by providing a forum for IT compliance research and
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Minimizing risk while maximizing the ROI on compliance projects
requires a standards-based integrated approach to compliance
management ."
The Object Management Group (OMG) is launching initiatives
designed to help IT compliance professionals manage these complex
issues:
Standards: The OMG Regulatory Compliance SIG will leverage the OMG
open, neutral standards process to develop standards for the rapid
adoption of models supporting regulatory compliance in business
processes. FineGround appliances control and optimize at the
application layer using a unique combination of application-specific
techniques for bandwidth reduction, latency management and server offloading.

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About The OMG

With well-established standards covering software from design and
development , through deployment and maintenance, and extending to
evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG)
supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which
maximizes ROI, the key to successful IT.
FineGround has been shipping a unique monitoring solution that provides
the actual end-user response time for Web applications.org for more
information.fineground.

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Global firms are constrained by hundreds of government
regulations, ranging from broad governance rules such as
Sarbanes-Oxley and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to local privacy laws. It will be available exclusively to
OMG members. These statistics will enable customers to more fully align their
ability to deliver service with their business demands," said Mellman.
FineGround is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in
Campbell, California with regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong, and
on the Web at http://www.

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CORBA(R), the
Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open
platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
Alliance members include: Adlex, Akamai Technologies, Coradiant, Expand
Networks , FineGround, Keynote Systems, NetForecast, Netli, NetQoS, Network
Physics, Packeteer, Peribit Networks , Swan Labs, Symphoniq and WildPackets. Visit http://www.

About FineGround
FineGround is the leading provider of application delivery systems that
accelerate and optimize the delivery of business-critical applications across
the extended enterprise.

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If an enterprise has a measurement tool that gathers timing data similar to
what a motivated end-user could gather with a stopwatch, then this metric can
be used. Align IT and business goals
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Our program of original research and events is designed to
help IT executives develop flexible, defensible, cost-effective and
low-risk compliance solutions.
ORCA: The OMG Regulatory Compliance Alliance is a working group of
OMG Members who are committed to developing , codifying, and promoting
IT best practices for regulatory compliance.
"For most organizations , understanding end-user performance and its impact
on the business is still very difficult," said Jay Mellman, vice president of
marketing for FineGround. "Apdex gives organizations a clear understanding
into how their enterprise applications are performing compared with user
satisfaction.
"We are swimming in numbers, but still don't know where we stand in terms
of our IT assets contributing to our business objectives. Increase business efficiency through IT-enabled process improvement
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FineGround's application and file delivery solutions are used by the world's
largest global enterprises-organizations with hundreds of locations, thousands
of remote workers and partners, and tens of thousands of servers-including
Alcoa, BMW, Cargill, Royal Mail, Sun Microsystems, Walgreens and Whirlpool.

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Repository: The OMG will develop a global repository of
regulations that have a significant impact on IT. Richard M. To request
an invitation to the seminar, or for more information on the OMG
Regulatory Compliance SIG or ORCA please contact Ken Berk at
kenberk@omg. According to the "State of the CIO"
2004 survey by CIO magazine, current CIO's management priorities are:

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About The Apdex Alliance
The Apdex Alliance is a group of companies collaborating to define and
promote an application performance metric called Apdex, a numerical measure of
user satisfaction with the performance of enterprise applications, and
reflects the effectiveness of IT investments in contributing to business
objectives.

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Founded in 2004, the
15-member organization will promote and define the recently announced Apdex,
an index, which measures user satisfaction with the performance of enterprise
applications. "This index introduces a new way to think
about performance while the Alliance's commitment to collaboration and
openness is a new way to think about resolving performance issues.

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Members will define models for compliant business processes
and best practices for adopting and maintaining compliant processes in
the organization.
"The OMG and its members are committed to building standards that
address the complex IT and business process issues companies face on a
daily basis," said Dr.
Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, the Object Management Group is an
international , open membership, not-for-profit computer industry
specifications consortium.

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The OMG Regulatory Compliance SIG and ORCA will meet at the OMG
Technical Meeting in Boston, Mass. For information
about joining OMG, please visit www. By incorporating the Apdex statistics into our
monitoring solution by late summer 2005, our enterprise customers will be able
to leverage an objective standard in addition to their existing service
metrics.Apdex.

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More information about OMG can be found at
www. "Apdex provides our
customers with the opportunity to understand and communicate the service
delivered to the business.

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ORCA will conduct
research projects on emerging compliance issues and trends, and
deliver results in the form of webinars, white papers, etc.omg. OMG's Modeling standards , the
basis for the MDA(R), include the Unified Modeling Language(TM)
(UML(R)) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM(TM)).
This metric can be applied to any source of end-user performance measurements .

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"Our
success in vertical markets such as healthcare, finance and life
sciences is highly synergistic with regulatory compliance--the
formation of ORCA and the Regulatory Compliance SIG add new depth to
our coverage in these markets.org or visit
http://www., FineGround Inc.

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OMG Forms Two Groups to Address Complex Regulatory Compliance Issues

the week of June 20-24, 2005.