OAGi launches new survey entitled "How are you using OAGIS?"

We have just launched a new OAGIS survey entitled "How are you using OAGIS?".  The purpose of this survey is to find out more information about who is using OAGIS and how they are using it.

We have added the survey to our OAGIS download page as well as the front page of our web site.  We invite you to participate in the survey.  You can go directly to the survey here.

Thank you to all for your support of the OAGi community.

OAGi is now offering a 20% discount on your first years membership

We are pleased to announce that OAGi is now offering a 20% discount on your first years membership. 

The OAGi staff works hard to maximize your membership experience. We have listed the Business and Technical benefits just below.  You can write to us with questions by clicking here.  Just tell us you are interested in joining and we will work through the process with you.

Access to Members Only Resources

§  Training videos

§  Our Cloud Computing Panel Video

§  Free copy of our BOD Flattener software

§  Free copies of our best practices documents

§  Free access to our webinar recordings

§  And more

Technical Benefits

§  Privilege to form, lead and participate on Working Groups

§  Privilege to vote in Working Groups

§  Ensure the technology meets your organizations needs

§  Show your leadership in industry

§  Network with other experts

Business Benefits

§  Show your leadership in industry

§  Use the OAGi Member Logo

§  Exposure for yourself and your  organization

§  20% off services and training

§  Meeting attendance is free

§  Outstanding and inexpensive learning opportunity

Membership Structure

OAGi membership is open to all organizations. This includes:

§  Supply Chain Organizations

§  Solution Providers

§  Government agencies and Ministries

You can see our membership dues structure and details here. 

You can also download a presentation on benefits and more, called Why join OAGi?

For more information please contact us right now at membership@oagi.org.

Meet our OAGi Outstanding Contributors

It is my honor to announce this Spring's recipients of the OAGi Outstanding Contributors Awards. The Outstanding Contributor Awards Program contains two parts, the Outstanding Contributor Award and the Outstanding Contributing Organization Award.

The OAGi Individual Recognition Program is focused on showing appreciation for the participation and contributions made a specific participant from a member organization.

The OAGi Organizational Recognition Program is focused on showing appreciation for the contributions made by an organizational member and their participants.

This year at our Plenary Meeting on April 25, 2012 at NIST in Gaithersburg, we announced the following Outstanding Contributor winners:

- Nigel Davies, Vortx

- John Cartwright, Intel

- Jean-Claude Monney, Microsoft

- Steffen Fohn, ADP

We also announced the following Outstanding Contributing Organization winner:

- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Engineering Lab, Integration Division

The details for each Award Winner are just below. These are also posted on our website under the "Community" menu.

Please join me in thanking each winner for their many contributions to the work of OAGi.

Nigel Davies

- Nigel became a Board Member in 1998 through 2001 when at HK Systems and implemented OAGIS for them

- Then Nigel moved to Delphion from 2002 to 2003 and implemented OAGIS for them

- Then Nigel worked at Catalyst / CDC Software from 2003 to 2009 and implemented OAGIS for them

- Nigel served as OAGi Chair while at Catalyst 2004 - 2007

- Now Nigel is at Vortx from 2010 to 2012 and implemented OAGIS for them

John Cartwright

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- John joined the OAGi Policy Board in 2007

- He then co-founded the High Tech Council in 2007

- Served as Chair of the High Tech Council 2008 - 2009

- Served as Vice-Chair of Membership 2008 - 2011

- Working Groups built and delivered PTP-OTC in OAGIS for the high tech industry in 2008

- Working Groups delivered Collaborative Forecasting in OAGIS for the high tech industry in 2009

Jean-Claude Monney

- Jean Claude served as Chair of the High Tech Council 2010 - 2011

- Jean-Claude also served on the OAGi Policy Board from 2010 - 2011

- Working Groups delivered OAGIS Logistics for the high tech industry 2010

- Working Groups also delivered Trade Compliance content in 2011

- Provided marketing expertise to OAGi CEO during the Cloud and Mobile launches

Steffen Fohn

- Steffen as Vice Chair of Finance for two years while a member of the Policy Board

- Serves as Co-Chair of the OAGi Architectural Council from 2008 to present

- Serves as Chair of the HR-Gap Analysis Working Group

- OAGIS X Working Group member

- Contributed updates to the ConfirmBOD best practices document

- Contributed the Data Management best practices document

- Contributed updates to the BOD Flattener Program

- Serves on the OAGi Quality Working Group

- As a member of the HR-XML Tech Steering Committee, acts as a technical liaison between HR-XML and OAGi

National Institute of Standards and Technology,

Engineering Laboratory, Systems Integration Division

- NIST Joined OAGi in 2002

- Hosted OAGi Meeting 11 years in a row including April 2012

- Built and demonstrated a NIST Test Bed working with OAGi, AIAG, and several Solution Providers

- Worked with OAGi and ATHENA Project from Europe

- Did research with OWL to mediate the differences between dialects of OAGIS

- Collaboration with OAGi and AIAG on a Product Data Management Working Group that produced the Engineering Work Document standard in OAGIS

- NIST Schema and NDR Testing Tools

- Facilitated a large STEP / OAGIS Harmonization Project across many standards organizations and was instrumental in writing the results report of that effort.

- Facilitated OAGi participation in the NIST Ontology Summit

Call for Participation - OAGIS Certified Professional Developer Program

We are pleased to announce and invite you to participate in our new OAGIS Certified Professional Developer (OCPD) program.

We announced this program at our recent Plenary Meeting April 25 and we are inviting our membership to participate in shaping and building the courses and tests necessary to execute this program.

It is planned that this program will be done in stages and each piece of the program will be built so it can be introduced separately. The program will have five parts.

The planned parts of this program include: 

1. Executive Level Course that is a summary of all and comes with a Certificate of Knowledge of OAGIS Technology and Architecture.
2. XML and XSD knowledge. This section may also include JSON.
3. OAGIS Platform and Architecture - Operational Use.
4. OAGIS Data Management and Verb use include Confirm BOD and Get/Show.
5. OAGIS Extensions and Lightening, adding new content, new BOD development, context concepts and eventually context implementation once OAGIS fully supports UN/CEFACT UCM.
6. OAGIS Content Knowledge (last modules to be developed).

Here is a link to the detailed proposal.

Please write to me here if you are interested in participating. Participation is open to all members in good standing.

OAGi Mobile, Cloud, JSON Working Group continues to make progress

Our Mobile, Cloud, and JSON Working Group meets at 4 PM today and 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.

OAGi News for May 2012

Hi and welcome to our May 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.  You can also find us on LinkedIn here, and Twitter here.  We ask our members and friends to “like” and follow us.

Remember, if you are not yet a member of OAGi you can review the all of the benefits of OAGi membership here.

April Plenary and Working Group Meetings a big success!

Thanks to all for making our April 25 and 26 Plenary and Working Group meetings a big success.  We had a tremendous keynote by John Radko, who is an OAGi Policy Board member and Chair of the High Tech Council.  His theme was “How Mobile Business and Cloud Computing will transform B2B”

We also presented our Outstanding Contributor Awards and also our Outstanding Contribution Organization Award during the Plenary Session.  More on the award winners in the next section below.  Our other sessions included:

- NIST presentation on their Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap- Update on OAGIS Mobile, Cloud, and JSON Initiative
- OAGi Updates and briefings on Council activities
- An update on upcoming release 9.6 of OAGIS- A terrific panel discussion on “How Mobile Business and Cloud will transform business”

These presentations are all available on our website here.

OAGi Outstanding Contributor Awards

It is our honor to announce this Spring's recipients of the OAGi Outstanding Contributors Awards. The Outstanding Contributor Awards Program contains two parts, the Outstanding Contributor Award and the Outstanding Contributing Organization Award.

The OAGi Individual Recognition Program is focused on showing appreciation for the participation and contributions made a specific participant from a member organization. 

The OAGi Organizational Recognition Program is focused on showing appreciation for the contributions made by an organizational member and their participants. 

This year at our Plenary Meeting on April 25, 2012 at NIST in Gaithersburg, we announced the following Outstanding Contributor winners: 

- Nigel Davies, Vortx

- John Cartwright, Intel

- Jean-Claude Monney, Microsoft

- Steffen Fohn, ADP 

We also announced the following Outstanding Contributing Organization winner: 

- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Engineering Lab, Integration Division 

The details for each are posted on our website under the "Community" menu here and here respectively.

OAGIS Release 9.6 Public Review is active through the end of April

We are pleased to announce that OAGIS Release 9.6 is now in Public Review and is schedule to go 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 on Wednesday, May 16 at 1 PM Eastern Time.  You can register for this free webinar here.

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:

-  New Configuration Noun as part of co-development with Cisco Systems and the OAGi Staff
- Updates to the Quote Noun
- Content from CDC led Export Compliance Working Group, the  Party Screen Noun and the Party Screen Response Noun
- New Content contributed by Oracle Corporation, Warehouse Order (EDI X12 940) and Warehouse Shipping Advice (EDI X12 945) -  iBASEt Member Contribution, the   Item Non Conformance Noun
- Enhancements to the 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 initiativesThe 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

·         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 2012Stay 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

April 25, 2012 Plenary Presentations are available now

Thanks to all who made last week's OAGi Plenary session so successful.  We have the presentations posted on the web site here.

We are getting to work on the videos of the sessions and you will see announcements on their availability soon.