Tuesday, July 10, 2012

OAGi News for July 2012

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OAGIS Release 9.6 is Now Available!

We are pleased to announce that OAGIS Release 9.6 is available.

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 architecture Council is calling this release a bridge release.

Several changes have been made to support the new UN/CEFACT 3.0 Naming and Design Rules and Core Component Technical Specification (CCTS) 3.0.  Other changes were made to better enable our OAGIS users to take advantage of the UN/CEFACT Context Mechanism Specification (UCM).

In addition, the content that is added in this release of OAGIS includes:

·         Configuration Noun
·         Updates to Quote Noun
·         Party Screen Noun
·         Party Screen Response Noun
·         Warehouse Order (EDI X12 940)
·         Warehouse Shipping Advice (EDI X12 945)
·         Item Non Conformance Noun and Scenario
·         Architecture enhancements to the Extensions Mechanism and Process
·         Change requests submitted by members and users

You can download OAGIS Release 9.6 for free here.

Website Registrations nears 6,000!

The OAGi website registrations continue to climb, with a total of 5,940 registrations at the time of this writing.  That represents 95 countries at last count.  The breakdown is just below.  Thank you for your continued support for this fantastic following.


 Chem eStandards Release 5.2 Public Review Continues

The Public Review of Chem eStandards (i.e., Ag eStandards ) Release 5.2 public review period continues through 19 July 2012.  The changes to the standard were requested by several companies within AgGateway, who is a member of the OAGi Chemical Industry Council and a partner of OAGi.

The public review period will continue through 19 July 2012. AgGateway and OAGi welcome questions and comments at inquiry@oagi.org.  We encourage you to participate in the public review.  You can download it here:


Mobile, Cloud, JSON Initiative continues to make progress

Our Mobile, Cloud, and JSON Working Group continues to meet and make progress.  The most recent work has focused on using OAGIS within a REST framework, the most popular way to code API’s in the cloud and for mobile.

We are looking at using the 4 regular verbs for REST processing: GET, PUT, DELETE, and POST.  We are thinking we may need to augment them with some of the existing OAGIS Verbs also, but that decision has not been made.

We have also declared that the highest form of content will be the OAGIS Noun and the lowest could be even at the Element level.  The componentization of the OAGIS architecture really lays a strong foundation for this new use of OAGIS.

None of this means we will be eliminating the BOD Messaging capability, we are augmenting it with the REST capability.

Remember it is the content that is important and the more ways we can use the content the more useful the common data model will be of users of OAGIS.

OAGi survey "How are you using OAGIS?" continues with excellent response

OAGi has recently 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.

OAGIS Release 10 work continues with four 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, HR Content, Chemical Industry Gap Analysis, and Context.

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

Meeting Calendar for 2012

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.

Policy Board Meeting – Completed
April 24, 2012
NIST
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Plenary and Working Groups - Completed
April 25 - 26, 2012
NIST
Presentations are available here.

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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