Two more collaborations moving forward

These news items would normally go into our monthly newsletter, but rather than wait until next month, I thought I would announce them now.

American Chemistry Council ChemITC

On Monday of this week we completed our agreement to join the American Chemistry Council ChemITC group.  This organization is the place where CIDX transferred their business initiatives. 

OAGi will be working closely with this organization in the same manner as we work with EDIFICE for our High Tech Council.

AgGateway

Today we received a Letter of Intent from AgGateway concerning their future membership in our Chemical Industry Council.  I am very pleased that AgGateway, which uses the Chem eStandards labeled as AG eStandards, will be continuing their commitment to working with OAGi as the successor to the CIDX standards efforts.

You can learn more about AgGateway here: http://www.aggateway.org

Plans for a next generation OAGIS

Our OAGIS specification has been in the market since 1996 and during that time we have continuously improved the business process definitions and the data exchange data model.

In the release 9.X version of OAGIS we implemented the 2.01 version of UN/CEFACT CCTS, parts of the Naming and Design Rules, the Datatypes, and some of the harmonized Core Components that were available at that time.

Now that the UN/CEFACT 3.0 technologies look like they are nearing completion, our Policy Board and Architecture Council are discussing plans to implement them in a next generation version of OAGIS we are calling OAGIS Release 10 or OAGIS X.

We are looking at this as a multi-year effort and the scope of OAGIS X is planned to include the following UN/CEFACT technologies:

Core Component Technical Specification (CCTS) version 3.0

Naming and Design Rules 3.0

Data Types Catalog 3.0

Unified Context Methodology

OAGIS X is also planned to be the version of OAGIS that explicitly supports (at least) High Tech, Aerospace and Defense, Automotive, Steel, and the Chemical Industry.  

The Chemical Industry point is very important to the users of the Chem eStandards, which are now owned by the Open Applications Group and our Chemcial Industry Council.  It is planned that OAGIS X will supercede the Chem eStandards at that time.  I plan to discuss our strategy for the Chem eStandards in more detail in anther post.

Good meeting last week

We had a good meeting in Washington DC last week.  In spite of the economy, people still seem commited to standards, and I continue to focus on the end in mind with them.

That is to save money, increase agility, and save time for organizations.

We covered many topics and had some terrific presentations.  The presentations are available here: http://www.oagi.org/dnn/oagi/Meetings/PriorMeetingPresentations/2009/OAGiSpring2009Meeting/tabid/198/Default.aspx