OAGi Newsletter for June 2011 just published

Our June 2011 newsletter went out today and a few of the highlights of the newsletter are just below. You can download it in it's entirety here.

1. Join us for a B2B Web Services Demonstration: OAGIS BODs using ebXML Messaging version 3.0 and AS4

The webinar will be held on Wednesday, June 29 at 11 AM EDT.  For more information and to register, click here.

2. OAGi CEO Speaking at Remittance Advice Standards Workshop on June 28

David Connelly, our OAGi CEO, will be speaking at the Remittance Advice Standards Workshop hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and ASC X-9.  Several other standards organizations that have a Remittance Advice will also be speaking, including IFX and GS1.

The Federal Reserve Bank is trying to understand what standards are available and how they are used so they can try to increase the number of online transaction over paper use.

3. B2B Cloud Panel video is now available

In case you missed the announcement, OAGi posted the video recording of our terrific B2B Cloud computing panel that took place on April 20 in Gaithersburg.  This video is available for free to OAGi members and for US $29.95 for non-members.

Members can go view or download the video here.

Non-members can see a little bit more and request a download link here.

4. The OAGIS Release Ten (OAGIS X) Working Group meets every Friday from 9 AM until noon EDT.  In addition, we have four other sub-groups that meet weekly.  These include:

Context – Tuesday, 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
Procure To Pay Content – Wednesday, 1:00 PM to 3 PM EDT
HR Content – Every other Thursday, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Chemical Industry Gap Analysis – Three Thursdays a month, 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

All of these meeting are visible on our OAGi Calendar on the members part of the web site here.

All OAGi members are invited to join any of these groups.  Please contact me here.

The week in review, the week ahead June 20, 2011

Last week was a very successful week for our members and Working Groups.  We started the week with an announcement of our upcoming joint webinar with OASIS for an OAGIS BOD over AS4 interoperability demonstration coming on Wednesday, June 29.

On Tuesday, we had our ChemITC call with the Chemical Council and then our Context Working Group.

On Wednesday, we had our Procure to Pay Working Group making excellent progress and then Friday’s OAGIS X call was an excellent call where we spent a great deal of time discussing better ways to add extension mechanisms to OAGIS. 

We covered at least 3 or 4 different new ways to extend.  We still have work to do on this.

Then we have our tools discussion where we are working on three different sets of tools.  The first is due July 1 and it is to be a script to help convert our existing libraries to the UN/CEFACT 3.0 formats.

The second is the new flattener, and the third is the context tool.

Our members are doing a great job and we have another big week coming up.

Stay tuned for more updates.

Join us for a B2B Web Services: OAGIS BODs using ebXML Messaging version 3.0 and AS4 Demonstration

Please join us for this exciting joint OAGi and OASIS webinar highlighting OAGIS BODs using the AS4 profile from the ebXML Messaging Service Technical Committee.

This webinar will feature:

- A recap of ebMS 3.0, its main features and advantages over the earlier version 2.0.
- A brief overview of AS4 and the new Advanced Features specification.
- An interoperability demonstration showing the use of AS4 in support of the OAGIS Order to Invoice process for use in the mid-market.

This demonstration will involve multiple independent AS4 implementations.

Who should attend:

- Software architects, product managers and product marketeers in B2B and data exchange areas.
- End users and specialists with an interest in new trends in data exchange.
- Standards experts from other OASIS TCs and from other standards groups working on B2B data exchange or Web Services.

Date:
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Time:
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Reserve your webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/665092680

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

System Requirements

PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer

OAGIS Release 9.5 Video now available

We are pleased to announce the availability of a video briefing of the new content in OAGIS Release 9.5.  The video is similar to the presentation that Mike Rowell, our OAGi Chief Architect did during our April Plenary Session.

This video is available to all and can be viewed here without logging into our website.

Thanks to the members and staff who put this together.

Best regards,

David

David Connelly

CEO, Open Applications Group, Inc.