OAGi News for October

We recently published our October newsletter and as usual, we continue to have exciting events to report. Highlights include:

OAGi's Growing Community - Steel Industry Council is coming

Since our September newsletter we have had renewed talks with the Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) and they have indicated that they want to move forward to form a Steel Industry Council as soon as possible.

The MSCI (www.msci.org) is a trade association that supports and represents the most elements of the metals value chain, including metals producers, distributors, and processors and, to a lesser extent, the interests of metals users.

We are in active planning now to move forward. Please stay tuned for more details.

HR-XML and OAGIS
HR-XML released their next generation Version 3.0 of their standards on September 23rd, 2009. This release represents a major collaboration effort with the OAGi members and staff as they have contributed to the architecture and the review of HR-XML 3.0 from its beginning.

Release 3.0 of HR-XML uses the BOD architecture, our base component libraries, and also the OAGIS implementation of UN/CEFACT Core Components version 2.01 because it is based on the OAGi business standards platform. You can read the HR-XML Press Release here.

UN/CEFACT Approves Core Component Technical Specification (CCTS) and Business Data Type (BDT) Catalog version 3.0.

As most of you know by now, OAGi is working on a next generation version of OAGIS called OAGIS Release 10. This release will use the new versions of UN/CEFACT CCTS and the BDT Catalog, making this milestone approval very important to all members and users of OAGi.

The 3.0 version of the Naming and Design Rules, which OAGIS Release 10 will also use, was also nearly completed as well.

Many of our members and staff contributed directly to the success of this effort.