DDS™ - The Proven Data Connectivity Standard for IoT™ Nov. 2016 | Page 2
WELCOME TO OMG®
WELCOME TO THE OBJECT
MANAGEMENT GROUP® (OMG®)
As an international, open membership, not-for-profit technology standards consortium, OMG Task Forces develop
enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies and an even wider range of industries.
OMG’s roots are in middleware, and one of our most widely
deployed standards is the Data-Distribution Service™
standard (DDS™). DDS has already been successfully deployed in private, hybrid and public cloud systems (including so-called “fog architectures”); in mobile systems and of
course general web solutions.
But today’s computing infrastructure is changing dramatically to support new requirements in
design and structure. This is no where more evident than in the Internet of Things (IoT), where new
types of machines driven by vast, complex industrial, distributed systems, can’t operate without
connectivity. These new machines will transform our infrastructure into smart freeways, distributed
power generation and autonomous driving cars, etc., revolutionizing the workplace and our lives for
years to come.
These new IoT systems need a technology like DDS because it directly addresses real-time systems.
It explicitly manages the communications “data model.” Consequently, it’s a “data-centric” technology. No matter what application—from financial trading platforms, to medical devices, to smart
electrical grids, to exploration and production and to transportation—DDS finds the right data and
then communicates it to its intended destination in a reliable, flexible, fast, and secure manner.
IoT will not only fuel innovative business strategies; it will also disrupt markets that have not been
disrupted by the Internet before, bringing huge economic impacts in efficiency and competition. So
if your company is just now exploring IoT and is concerned there are so many different middleware
standards available, let me make this clear: DDS—as the proven data connectivity standard for
IoT—will continue to parallel the groundbreaking growth of IoT in the future.
Regards,
Chairman and CEO
Object Management Group
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