OAGi CEO Blog: 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.

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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.