Fred A. Cummins is a Fellow with EDS, an HP company. He has more than 35 years' experience with consulting and information systems development, including strategic planning, distributed computing, and artificial intelligence. Mr. Cummins is Cochair of the OMG Business Modeling and Integration task force. His current focus is on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and development of business modeling standards. He can be reached at fred.cummins at eds.com.