The OBOE Partners

The OBOE team includes Schlumberger Geco-Prakla (Geco), Prism Technologies, Heinz Nixdorf Institute (HNI), SINTEF, University of Frankfurt (UniF), LogOn Technology, and The Open Group. This combines the user organisation, technology supplier and related, complementary expertise in modelling, legacy system integration, standards and conformance testing.

OBOE will be built on existing technology from two suppliers. This is expedient, cost-effective and provides a clear exploitation path for the project results. OBOE will:

• Assist user organisation Geco to increase competitive advantage and achieve faster time to market for new services;
• Bring forward the implementation of Business Object Facilities from technology supplier Prism;
• Bring forward the practical availability of standards-compliant object technology at the Business Object level.
• Assist OMG and The Open Group in their respective standardisation goals.

Background information on each of the partners, detailing their areas of expertise and their role in OBOE, is provided in separate partner pages, as well as providing links to their own web sites.

The partners' roles
The Open Group	Prototype tools for testing and assurance of multi-vendor interoperability that will underpin a market in business objects.
Geco-Prakla	Develop a set of business objects based on emerging industry standards supporting interoperability in seismic acquisition and processing including both new and legacy systems
Heinz Nixdorf	Technology and tools for integration of legacy applications
LogOn	Disseminate results through white papers, seminars and conference participation
Prism	Develop a BOF for scientific and technical applications, incorporating appropriate common business objects
SINTEF	Modelling methodology (based on OOram) and supporting tools or business objects with mapping to legacy systems
Uni-Frankfurt	Example applications incorporating legacy systems and databases