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.