Wednesday, March 14, 2012

OAGi News for March, 2012

Hi and welcome to our March 2012 newsletter. This is our monthly newsletter for the OAGi community. For regular updates of activities and happenings, you can follow us on Facebook here, LinkedIn here, and Twitter here.
Remember, if you are not yet a member of OAGi, we encourage you to look into the many benefits of membership, including our large and growing library of members-only content. You can review the all of the benefits of OAGi membership here.
OAGIS Release 9.6 is coming in May 2012
We are pleased to announce that OAGIS Release 9.6 is planned to go to Public Review the first week in April through the end of April. We are planning for General Availability the end of May, 2012.

We are also planning a webinar update for our members during the April Public Review. This will be a free webinar for OAGi members.

This release of OAGIS brings a great deal of new content as well as some technical advancements that bring us closer to OAGIS Release 10 (OAGIS X). The content that is added in this release of OAGIS includes: 
  • From the High Tech Council
    • New Noun as part of co-development with Cisco Systems and the OAGi Staff
      • Configuration Noun
      • Updates to Quote Noun
         
    • Content from CDC led Export Compliance Working Group
      • Party Screen Noun
      • Party Screen Response Noun
      • Three Scenarios
         
  • From the Architecture Council
    • New Content contributed by Oracle Corporation
      • Warehouse Order (EDI X12 940)
      • Warehouse Shipping Advice (EDI X12 945)
         
  • iBASEt Member Contribution
    • Item Non Conformance Noun and Scenario
       
  • Enhancements to Extensions Mechanism and Process
     
  • Change requests submitted by members and users
OAGi has recently moved revised and republished it's events calendar. This calendar contains all Working Group, Council Meetings, and face to face meetings.
 We welcome all OAGi members and users to take advantage of this revised calendar. You can access our calendar here.
Mobile Initiative continues to make progress
Our Mobile, Cloud, and JSON Working Group continues to meet and make progress. Although the scope of the Working Group is large because all these items are inter-related, the team is taking things one or two topics at a time.
We are moving forward on the naming and design rules for how we will express JSON, because there are several design patterns possible, and we are also gathering case studies for mobile applications.
Here is the scope of the Working Group as a reminder:
-  Mobile Business Case Studies as examples
-  Working with Solution Providers to support OAGIS JSON based apps on mobile devices
-  OAGIS Apps for mobile devices from OAGi and its members
-  Changes to the OAGIS BOD architecture to provide improved support for cloud
-  JSON based instances of the OAGIS BODs
-  A JSON tool converter
-  JSON Naming and Design Rules (NDR) similar to the current OAGIS XSD NDR
-  REST processing guide for OAGIS

The scope of this Working Group is not tied to any particular release of OAGIS and there is no set date for any of these deliverable, as there needs to be some research done and these topics will continue to evolve.

Registration continues for April Plenary and Working Group Meetings

 
This is a reminder that registration is open for our April 2012 Plenary and Working Group meetings. The meetings will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, April 25 and 26 in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The theme of April's meeting is "How Mobile Business and Cloud Computing will transform B2B?"

We will have a keynote on this subject and also we plan to end with a panel discussion on this topic. We will provide remote access for free to OAGi members and for a small fee for non-members.

You can learn more, download the Agenda, and register for the meeting on our website here.

OAGIS Release 10 work continues with five ongoing initiatives

 
The OAGIS Release Ten (OAGIS X) Working Groups continue to meet on a regular basis and we encourage your participation. We can use all the smart people we can get! The meetings include: 
  • Architecture - Every Friday, 10 AM to 12 PM Eastern US Time
  • E-Invoicing Content - Wednesday, 1:00 PM to 3 PM Eastern US Time
  • HR Content - Every other Thursday, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Eastern US Time
  • Chemical Industry Gap Analysis - Every other Thursday, 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EDT
  • Context - Tuesday, 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Eastern US Time

All OAGi members are invited to join any of these groups. If you are interested in joining any of these Working Groups, please contact me here.

Meeting Calendar for 2012

 
Stay tuned for final dates for these upcoming meetings in 2012. We are also planning several new webinars, details coming soon.
 
Policy Board Meeting - Planned
April 24, 2012
NIST
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Plenary and Working Groups - Planned
April 25 - 26, 2012
NIST
Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Policy Board Meeting Planned
November 13, 2012
Oracle
Redwood Shores, CA, USA
Plenary and Working Groups Completed
November 14 - 15, 2012
Oracle
Redwood Shores, CA, USA.

European Meeting
We are working determining these dates and will announce them as soon as possible.
TBD
TBD

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