Terrific High Tech Council Meeting yesterday

We had a terrific High Tech Council call yesterday.  It was chaired by our Council Chair, Jean-Claude Monney of Microsoft.

The Council discussed their plans for a face to face meeting on December 2 near San Francisco.  That is the day after the OAGi Plenary session at the same location.

More information on that meeting can be found here.

Chemical Council Third Webinar a Success

The Chemical Industry Council held their third webinar in their planned series of three webinars yesterday, October 26.  Jim Wilson, the OAGi Chemical Industry Chief Architect described what is new in the Chem eStandards Relase 5.1.1.

The highlights included  a number of emerging agriculture-industry requirements for the following sectors: 

- European horticulture
- Feed
- Animal Health
- Seed 

Additionally, a new message was defined: Supply Forecast.

Jim also demonstrated a terrific new tool called the OAGi Chem eStandards Browser.  The browser enables any user to easily view the content of the standard, browse the Data Dictionary, see where context is used and generate Excel versions of the Schemas among other things.

This new OAGi Chem eStandards Browser is free to members only on the Chem eSTandards 5.1 download page here and will soon be available to non-members for a small fee.

You can learn more about the benefits of joining our community here.

New Export Compliance Working Group

I am pleased to announce that OAGi has a new Working Group sponsored by our High Tech Council.  

The scope of the Export Compliance Working Group includes Restricted Party Screening, License Determination, License Management and Checklist Screening integration.  The Project Definition is available on our website here. 

This Working Group is called the Export Compliance Working Group and is open to all OAGi members, regardless of your Council.  We welcome the cross industry participation.

If you are not a member of OAGi and would like to participate, I welcome you to learn about the benefits of joining our community by clicking here.

OAGi Chem eStandards Browser now Available

We are pleased to announce that OAGi has released an easy to use tool for browsing the Chem eStandards 5.1.1.  This browser enables the user to browse through the Chem eStandards without complicated technical tools.  There is a screen shot of the browser just below.

The browser is free to OAGi members and can be found on the OAGi website here.  You must be logged in and a member of OAGi.

For more information on becoming a member of OAGi, you can find information on our website here.

Thanks to all for your support.

Chem eStandards 5.1 Published

I am pleased to announce that a new version of the Chem eStandards is available for free download.

While we are working on OAGIS Release 10 to eventually supercede the Chem eStandards as a cross industry, Core Components 3.0 compliant standard, we pledged at the time of the CIDX merger to continue to maintain the Chem eStandards while the OAGIS 10 work progresses.

This updated version is called Chem eStandards Release 5.1.1 and addresses a number of emerging agriculture-industry requirements for the following sectors: 

- European horticulture
- Feed
- Animal Health
- Seed 

Additionally, a new message was defined: Supply Forecast.

The OAGi Chemical Industry Council is planning a webinar to review changes and demonstrate a tool that helps implementers to browse the standard in a business-friendly way.  Stay tuned for the announcement of the webinar date and times.

Chem eStandards 5.1.1 is backwards-compatible with version 5.0 and available for free download on the OAGi website here.  You must be logged in to download the standards.

October 2010 Newsletter Published

We just published our newsletter for October of 2010. Highlights include:

- We had 17,795 different visitors from 89 countries last month
- Our next face to face meeting is December 1 - 2 in Redwood City, California
- We just published Chem eStandards Release 5.1

Read more: http://tinyurl.com/27eoh98