Finance DTF Document Library

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Requests for Proposals (RFPs)

Each RFP listed alphabetically. Italicized listings indicate active RFPs.

  • Currency (Published - publicly available)

Specifies a set of business objects and related abstractions as a proposed standard to support international currency. A copy of the specification is available here.

  • General Ledger (Published - publicly available)

Defines the interfaces and their semantics that are required to enable interoperability between General Ledger systems and accounting applications, as well as other distributed objects and applications for accounting purposes. A copy of the specification is available here.

  • Model Driven Message Interoperability (MDMI) (under finalization - Beta publicly available)

Issued as the Conversion Models for Payment Messages RFP, the MDMI specification provides conversions between message standards – particularly the IST harmonization payment kernel and the existing SWIFT, TWIST and IFX payment standards. Providing these formalized and standardized conversions should ease the acceptance of new standards as they will remove the need to update the large base of legacy applications using the older standards. The RFP has attracted a lot of attention in industry. A content version of the Beta (pre-release) specification is available here  

  • Party Management Facility (Published - publicly available)

Provides interfaces that allow external users (people, application programmers, or other systems) to access and manipulate party related information in a consistent and well-defined manner. A copy of the specification is available here.

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Requests for Information (RFIs):

Each RFI Listing is followed by its listing of Responses. Italicized listings indicate Active RFI's

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Whitepapers:

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Finance Charter & Roadmap

The Roadmap serves as a plan and schedule for activity conducted by OMG's Finance Domain Task Force (Finance). It identifies categories of activity and specific work items within those categories; lists expected work item deliverables; and provides a schedule for work items. It also records the history of Finance Domain Task Force activity.

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Liaison Documents

ISO Documents

This is a subset of the ISO documents available through the OMG/ISO Liaison that are of particular interest to Manufacturing DTF members.

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Other OMG Documents of Interest:

  • OMG Hitchhiker's Guide, the Policies & Procedures in a (large) nutshell. Also contains information on how to make the best advantage of OMG membership
  • OMG Templates Page containing…
    • Request for Proposal (RFP) Template
      Generic RFP Template as mandated by the AB. Frame versions (.mif and .fm5 files) include Framemaker convenience features to assist authors - see instructions. Word versions have identical contents, but lack convenience features. This version contains new internationalisation requirements, as mandated by the AB in August 1999.
    • RFP Instructions (for Framemaker)
      Instructions for using Framemaker RFP template - Instructions for using RFP template with Framemaker features.
    • Final Submission Template (for RFPs and RFCs)
      Framemaker Submission Template - Framemaker template to be used for final, adopted submissions to OMG RFPs and RFCs
    • Revision Task Force / Finalization Task Force Final Report Template
    • Architecture Board Nomination Template - ab/98-11-02:
    • Chair Form / Template -
    • Chair Status Report - TC Friday plenary
    • IDL Style Guide
      OMG IDL Style Guide
    • Approved Liaison Template
  • OMG Policies & Procedures This link points to the most recent P&P. The policies and procedures of the OMG technical process available in a multitude of file formats. One of the file formats is a .pdb file for downloading to a Palm Pilot PDA, where it can be read using the iSilo document reader, available in various versions (some free) from the iSilo Web site: http://www.isilo.com/
  • OMG Bylaws, Version 20
  • Election by Single Transferable Vote : This is the technique used to elect OMG Architecture Board Members. It is well laid out here, but is probably best understood if your British. If you're not, well… give it a go anyway.
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Notes on Retrieval of OMG Documents

All the documents issued by the Finance DTF are stored electronically at the OMG site. Each document has an OMG document number of the form finance/yyyyy-mm-nn (where yyyy & mm are the year and month issued, and nn is a serially assigned number (starting with "01" for each month). Specific documents can be accessed by document number using the URL form:

http://doc.omg.org/finance/yyyy-mm-nn

[This URL form will return a list of all formats of the document available. Customarily, documents are supplied in Microsoft Word (.doc), Rich Text Format (.rtf), Postscript (.ps), and Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf). Occasionally other formats such as Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppt), FrameMaker, Zip and other formats will be encountered. Portable Document Format (.pdf), for text and graphics requires a freely available Acrobat reader.]

Any version of a Finance DTF document can be obtained via FTP by appending the document number and the relevant file extension to "ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/finance". For example, the Text version of the Finance Mission Statement can be obtained from:

ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/mantis/finance/96-01-02.txt
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This page was updated on 14 May 2004. Please send comments and suggestions to finance@omg.org by email.

Last updated on: 08/18/2008