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ASG VP of Applications Product Management Barbara Errickson-Connor to Speak at OMG Technical Meeting in Orlando, Florida

Presentation to Address Integrated Modernization Environment (IME) Issues and Market-Leading ASG-becubic™ Multi-Technology Repository

NAPLES, Fla./Friday, June 18, 2004 — ASG, an enterprise software and professional services provider to Global 5000 companies, announced today that ASG Vice President of Applications Product Management, Barbara Errickson-Connor, will host a presentation on Tuesday, June 22, 2004, during the OMG Technical Meeting in Orlando, FL. Errickson-Connor will address Integrated Modernization Environment (IME) issues and the market-leading ASG-becubic™ family of repository tools.

The presentation, part of “ADM Information Day: Introduction to Legacy Transformation Tool Sets,” will focus on ASG-becubic’s active, multi-technology repository technology that supports organizations’ evolution toward distributed architectures and service-oriented architectures (SOAs). ASG-becubic offers a single Integrated Modernization Environment that: inventories, understands and cleans existing programs; supports code restructuring, including Business Rule Mining and component-method extraction; enables transformation through translation and reusable code wrapping; and offers ongoing reuse management with service discovery, registration, subscription and tracking. ASG-becubic’s MOF-based metamodel provides maximum product flexibility and eases IME extensions through an XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) based on the efforts of OMG’s ADM Taskforce with Knowledge Discovery Meta-Models (KDM).

Errickson-Connor has extensive experience in programming, consulting and product management. In her current position at ASG, Errickson-Connor is responsible for identifying new business opportunities in support of more than 40 major software products. Prior to joining ASG, Errickson-Connor held leading IT positions with Allstate Insurance, Motorola Inc., Texas Instruments, Castek Software factory and Rational Software.

For more information about the Object Management Group and details on the OMG Technical Meeting in Orlando, visit www.omg.org. For more information about ASG and ASG-becubic’s multi-technology repository solutions, visit www.asg.com.

About ASG
ASG's business is to partner with clients to improve productivity and significantly enhance performance through the intelligent use of technology. Founded in 1986, ASG is a privately held global enterprise software and professional services firm that provides a full range of software solutions in the Security Management, Applications Management, Operations Management, Information Management, Performance Management, and Infrastructure Management arenas — including business re-engineering, systems integration, and systems development. ASG has approximately 900 employees, $169 million in annual revenues, 7,000 customer sites, and 18,000 software licenses worldwide. ASG is headquartered in Naples, Florida, USA, with more than 45 offices serving the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia/Pacific. Inc. magazine recognized ASG as one of the fastest growing companies in the United States, with a three-year growth rate of 394 percent. For more information, visit ASG at www.asg.com.

About 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. OMG’s standards cover multiple operating systems, programming languages, middleware and networking infrastructures, and software development environments. OMG’s Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA, include the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG’s standard open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today. Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC, and international marketing representatives in Japan, the UK, and Germany, the Object Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. OMG member companies write, adopt, and maintain the organization’s standards following a mature, open process. All current OMG specifications may be downloaded without charge from the organization’s website, www.omg.org; the site also provides additional information about OMG and its activities. For information on joining the OMG, or questions not addressed on the website, please contact OMG headquarters by email at info@omg.org, by phone at +1-781-444 0404, or by fax at +1-781-444 0320.

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