OAGi CEO Blog: OAGi News for April 2012

Hi and welcome to our April 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. We encourage our members and users to visit us and "like" our page.

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April Plenary and Working Group Meetings coming in just 2 Weeks!

If you have not already done so, please make your plans right away to attend our Plenary and Working Group meetings coming up April 25 - 26 hosted by NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Our exciting theme is "How will Mobile Business and Cloud Computing impact B2B?"

We will also be presenting our Outstanding Contributor Awards and also an Outstanding Contribution Organization Award during the Plenary Session.

Our sessions include:

- Special Keynote on Mobile Business and Cloud Computing
- NIST presentation on their Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap

- Update on OAGIS Mobile, Cloud, and JSON Initiative
- OAGi Updates and briefings on Council activities
- OAGIS Release 10 Working Group meeting on day two

This is a remarkable learning and networking opportunity and members as well as non-members are invited to attend. You can learn more, download the Agenda, and register for the meeting on our website here.

OAGi Presents at the 28th Meeting of the ISO IEC ITU UN/ECE MoU Management Group

OAGi presented at the 28th meeting of the MoU Management Group (MoU MG) on March 20. OAGi has been a signatory to the Memorandum of Understanding with the worlds standards organizations since 2002.

This group works to ensure collaboration, reduce overlap, and inform the e-business standards community of the efforts of each other. You can find out more about the MoU MG at their website here.

OAGIS Release 9.6 Public Review is coming the end of April

We are pleased to announce that OAGIS Release 9.6 is planned to go to Public Review the first week in April for 30 days. We are planning for General Availability the end of May, 2012.

We are also planning a webinar update for our members during the May Public Review. This will be a free webinar for OAGi members and available for a small fee to non-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 Events Calendar Revised and Republished

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.

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.