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UMM is based in UML, which means it's about modeling the information aspects of businesses. This Wikipedia entry seems underdeveloped, so the description should taken with a grain of salt. It does point out that UMM attempts to decouple from implementation technologies such as Web Services and ebXML.

UN/CEFACT's Modeling Methodology, commonly known as UMM is a modeling methodology which is developed by UN/CEFACT - United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business. Goal of UMM The primary goal of UMM is to caputure business requirements of inter-organizational business processes. These requirements result in a platform independent UMM model. The UMM model can then be used to derive deployment artifacts for the IT systems of the participating business partners. UMM at a glance UMM enables to capture business knowledge independent of the underlying implementation technology, like Web Services or ebXML. The goal is to specify a global choreography of a business collaboration serving as an "agreement" between the participating partners in the respective collaboration. Each business partner derives in turn its local choreography, enabling the configuration of the business partner's system for the use within a service oriented architecture ( SOA).

At the UN -- actually the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe -- ther version 1 models and metamodels dated 2006 are published.

UMM User Guide (UMM in a nutshell) UMM Foundation Module V1.0 (2006) UMM Base Module V1.0 (2006) UMM User Guide UMM Metamodel - Revision 12 (2003) UMM Revision 10 (2001)

About this site The site http://www.umm-dev.org serves as a central access point for all information related to UN/CEFACT's Modeling Methodology (UMM) and the UML Profile for Core Components (UPCC). It provides information about the UMM and UPCC standard per se, academic work in the field of inter-organizational business process modeling and business document as well as tools and other important resources.

This site is a Wordpress blog, so it's possible/practical to receive a feed about ongoing development of the UMM. (The alternative may be the e-mail list). The work appears to be largely centered at universities in Austria.