India, July 2 -- EDM Council, the global association for data management, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Object Management Group (OMG), the open membership, not-for-profit technology consortium.

The combination brings together more than 700 corporate and public-sector member organizations, eight regional hubs, and a combined 50-year portfolio of internationally adopted standards and technology into a single non-profit association. The agreement is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2025.

With this acquisition, and reflecting the global growth of the organization, EDM Council is now named EDM Association, representing the first-of-its-kind non-profit trade association fostering the growth of data, software, syst...