OAGIS 10.0 is Here! It is now available for download

I am pleased to announce that OAGIS 10.0 is now available for download.  As most of you know this is the result of several years and hundreds of hours of contribution by our members.

  

We started this effort with several goals, including:

• Building functional equivalence with the CIDX Chem eStandards as part of our agreement to merge in 2008. 

• Adoption of the UN/CEFACT CCTS and NDR 3.0 to increase OAGIS interoperability with other standards for our users 

• Thorough review and harminization of common objects with HR-XML 

• Review of all the content of OAGIS to update the capabilities in areas such as eCommerce, Finance, Manufacturing, CRM, etc. 

• Complete review of all OAGIS artifacts to ensure consistency through the standard 

• Complete review of the OAGIS documentation to improve the content and the Scenarios 

• Improve the Data Management capabilities through updating the Verbs and the Verb processing 

I am pleased to say we have reached all of these goals and more through the hard work of our membership.  OAGIS 10.0 is our platform for the future and it is the technology we will base our Mobile, Cloud, JSON work, along with several other planned initiatives.  

For a presentation of OAGIS 10.0 I invite you to review this presentation or go to our website to download it. Members, please remember to sign in.

Thank you to all for your tremendous efforts in completing this special effort.  I congratulate you all!

Excellent Context Specification Working Group Meeting on Tuesday

We had an excellent Context Specification Working Group on Tuesday, June 20, 2013.  The members decided to take a multi phased approach with the first phase to include a survey of experienced member’s practices and document them.

We also decided to document the reasons for and the uses of their implementation of Context.  These will go into a second document that becomes incorporated to the survey of practices.

We identified the list of experienced members and uses of OAGIS and we will begin with their stories next week.

We welcome all members to join us by writing to us here and we welcome non-members to join us as well by writing to us here.

OAGIS 10.0 Release Candidate Three is closed - GA is next step

I am pleased to announce that the OAGIS 10.0 Release Candidate Three period is now closed. Thank you to all who helped make it happen.

The next steps now are to review the feedback, and prepare the technology for shipment. The process flow from the OAGi Development Methodology is just below.

We will be working with the OAGi Community to make this happen over the summer. As we get closer to that time, more details will be announced. Stay tuned for more announcements!

Thank you for your support.

New OAGi Context Specification Kickoff Meeting

We had the kick off meeting for our new Context Specification last Tuesday, May 10 and it was a great success.  We had a good crowd and we reviewed and updated the Project Definition.

The purpose of the Working Group is to build a Specification that is a normative document on how to do Context for OAGIS and other XML message Types.  It will be a separate standard. 

This work will focus on practicality and implementability and will not require special tools or tools that have not yet been built to implement.

We will gather use cases, develop a requirements document, gather current state of the art examples, and develop the specification document.

To all who are interested, we welcome your inquiries or you can go download the Project Definition from our website here.

Our next meeting is Tuesday, June 11, at 4 PM EDT.

OAGIS 10.0 Release Candidate Three is now available for Member Review

I am very pleased to announce that OAGIS 10.0 Release Candidate Three is now available for Member Review!

AS WITH ALL OAGi RELEASE CANDIDATES, THIS RELEASE IS NOT TO BE TAKEN INTO PRODUCTION AS IT WILL CHANGE BEFORE THE GENERALLY AVAILABLE RELEASE IS COMPLETE.

This Member Review contains the Chemical Industry content from our Gap Analysis with the Chem eStandards.  That was part of our agreement with CIDX when they merged with OAGi in 2009.

Public Review Three also contains the HR-XML harmonization work that Steffen Fohn of ADP has been working on as well as some manufacturing enhancements.

This Public Review will run for 30 calendar days and will conclude on June 15, 2013. From there we will review the feedback and prepare for the General Availability.

Thank you in advance for participating in this Public Review. You can download the Public Review Release Candidate Three here.  We also provide links to the License and the feedback form on this page.

Please remember you must be logged as a member to participate.  Please let us know if you have a problem.

OAGi News for May 2013

Hi and welcome to our May 2013 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 see the benefits of OAGi membership here.

OAGi Member Spotlight

This month we are continuing the highlighting of our recent Outstanding Contributor Award winners.  This issue we are highlighting Tom Fannon from Ashland.  Tom has been instrumental in leading the transition from CIDX since 2009 and he has served in the capacity of Chair of the OAGIS Chemical Industry Council since that time.

Below you can find a summary list of his many contributions to our community.

Tom Fannon, Ashland

2009 - Present   Member of the Policy Board

2009 - Present   Chair of Chemical Industry Council

2009 - Present   Key Chemical Industry Rep for OAGIS 10

2012 - Led the Review and Approval of Chem eStandards 5.2

2011 - Led the Review and Approval of Chem eStandards 5.1

2010 - Led or participated on three Webinars

2009 - Led the transition from CIDX to a successful launch of the Chemical Council

Please join me in thanking Tom for his many contributions to the efforts of the Open Applications Group.

Our 2013 Spring Plenary Meeting a big Success!

Our Spring 2013 Plenary Meeting and Working meetings were once again hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) located in Gaithersburg, Maryland.  We met on May 2 and 3 and had excellent attendance, terrific presentations, and great discussion.  Our presentations included:   

- An update on the OAGIS Mobile, Cloud, and JSON Initiative
- Special Presentations from NIST on their new Supply Chain and Sustainability Initiatives
- A review and update on NIST sponsored feasibility study for expressing OAGIS Scenarios in BPMN format
- Review of the ADP REST API Design Guide from one of our Outstanding Contributors, Steffen Fohn
- A terrific Case study from Command Alkon, an OAGi member

- An OAGIS Release 10 Introduction and Review

This presentations will be available on our website soon.  Check for the announcement.

Thanks to all for making this meeting a great success!

New Working Groups Coming!

Four new Project Definitions were presented at our recent Plenary meeting.  They included:

1.    Context Specification – A proposal to build a new OAGi Specification for contextualizing XML messages. 

2.    Enhanced Batch Processing – A proposal to build a wrapper definition to support batching of XML messages.  It is intended that this will also be a separate Specification

3.    OAGIS Release 10 Enhanced Documentation – a proposal for a multi-phased building out of the OAGIS documentation content and the addition of tools to provide a better user experience.

4.    Advancing Computer Interpretable Communication of Manufacturing Information

These are going to be sent to the Policy Board soon and you should see the Call for Participation for each one after that.  Stay tuned!

If you are interested in joining any OAGi Working Group please write to us at inquiry@oagi.org.

Mobile, Cloud, JSON Initiative continues with a great deal of interest

The Working Group has made a decision as to the form of JSON they plan to support and will soon be working on OAGIS message examples expressed in JSON.

If you are interested in joining the Working Group please write to us at inquiry@oagi.org.

OAGIS Release 10 Public Review Three is coming soon!

We are expecting that OAGIS Release 10 Release Candidate Three will be available for download and review the week of May 13, 2013. 

This Release Candidate is expected to contain the Chemical Industry content from our Gap Analysis with the Chem eStandards.  That was part of the agreement with CIDX when they merged with OAGi in 2009.  Public Review Three is also planned to contain the HR-XML harmonization work that Steffen Fohn of ADP has been working on as well as some manufacturing enhancements.

The Working Group continues to meet to review and wrap up the technical work.  Once OAGIS Release 10 goes General Availability sometime this summer, we will be hosting a series of webinars that will brief participants on the features of OAGIS Release 10.

Look for the announcement of this Release Candidate next week.  Thanks to all who helped make this possible.

BPMN efforts making good progress

Denis Gagné did a terrific review of his NIST sponsored research into expressing the OAGIS Scenarios using Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) at our Plenary Meeting on May 2 at NIST in Gaithersburg.

There he reviewed what BPMN is and how it is used as well as the different types of diagramming possible using it.   We used a good portion of the second day to work with Denis to resolve his questions on OAGIS and keep him moving forward.

It is not intended that BPMN will replace our current Scenarios that use UML Sequence Diagrams but will complement them.

An example of the work of an OAGIS Procure to Pay BPMN Scenario based on our UML Sequences Diagram version is just below.

Meeting Calendar for 2013

Our planned calendar for 2013 is below.  Stay tuned for the specific date and time announcements.  We are also planning a series of webinars covering topics on Chemical Industry B2B, OAGIS Release 10, and Mobile and Cloud efforts.

Policy Board Meeting - Completed	Wednesday, May 1, 2013	NIST	Gaithersburg, Maryland
Plenary and Working Groups - Completed	Thursday and Friday, May 2 -3, 2013	NIST	Gaithersburg, Maryland

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Policy Board Meeting	November 19, 2013	Oracle	Redwood Shores, CA, USA
Plenary and Working Groups	November 20 - 21, 2013	Oracle	Redwood Shores, CA, USA

SECOND REMINDER: Time to register for OAGi Meetings in Gaithersburg, MD May 2 - 3, 2013

This is your reminder that it is time to register for our Open Applications Group Meetings to be held on Thursday, May 2 and Friday, May 3, 2013.  The meeting will be hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the 12th year in a row.

  

We encourage you to make your plans as early as possible to save on fares and hotels. We also encourage you to register as soon as possible.

You can learn more about the location of the meeting, hotel, get directions, and register for the meeting just below.

We look forward to seeing you there!

 HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE

 - Update on the OAGIS Mobile, Cloud, and JSON Initiative
- Special Presentation from NIST on their new Supply Chain and Sustainability Initiatives
- Update on OAGi BPMN work
- OAGi Updates and briefings on Working Group activities
- OAGIS Release 10 Introduction
- Working Group meeting half day on day two

 MEETING AGENDA

The meeting agenda may be viewed or downloaded here.

If you have any questions, please write to us at meetings@oagi.org. We encourage you to make your reservations as soon as possible and we look forward to seeing you there!

REGISTER NOW - EVERYONE IS WELCOME

All OAGi members attend for free, but you do not have to be an OAGi member to attend. Individual members and non-members pay only a $325.00 fee to cover expenses.

Non-members may also register to attend the meeting online as a training exercise and you will gain access to the recordings of the presentations.  This will cost only US $199.00.

If you plan to attend, you must register for security requirements. You can register for the meeting on our web site here.  If you are not a member, you can pay for your nominal meeting fees at that time.

MEETING LOCATION INFORMATION

NIST Headquarters Address:

National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive

Gaithersburg, MD 20899
 The National Institute of Standards & Technology is located near Gaithersburg, Maryland, just off Interstate Route 270, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the center of Washington, D.C. NIST provides shuttle service from the Shady Grove Metro (subway) station.

For further information on transportation, food/dining, hotels/motels and more see the Visitor Information page.

Link to map is here.

Directions to Main Campus

From northbound I-270 take Exit 10, Route 117 West, Clopper Road. Bear right at the first light onto Clopper Road/West Diamond Avenue. At the next light, turn left onto the NIST grounds. 

From southbound I-270 take Exit 11, Route 124, Montgomery Village Avenue/Quince Orchard Road. Bear right at the first light onto Route 124 West, Quince Orchard Road. After you merge onto Rt. 124, Quince Orchard Road, turn left at the second light onto Route 117, West Diamond Avenue. Turn right at the first light onto NIST grounds.

NIST Metro Shuttle

 NIST provides shuttle service for official visitors and staff to and from the Shady Grove Metro Station. Visitors using Metro can meet the NIST shuttle at the east side "Kiss & Ride" area of the Shady Grove Metro Station at 15 and 45 minutes past the hour from 8:00 am to 5:30 pm. The shuttle departs from the front of the NIST Administration Building on the hour and half hour.

The shuttle operates Monday through Friday except on federal holidays.
Bus Station - Union Station
Subway Station - Shady Grove Metro (4 mi S)
Train Station - Union Station

 HOTEL INFORMATION

 Please make your own hotel reservations. Some local hotels include:

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Courtyard Gaithersburg Washingtonian Center
204 Boardwalk Place
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878 USA
Phone: 1-301-527-9000
Fax: 1-301-527-9001
The website is here.

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The Marriott Washingtonian
9751 Washingtonian Boulevard
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878 USA
Phone: 1-301-590-0044
The website is here.

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Hilton Washington DC North/Gaithersburg
620 Perry Parkway, Gaithersburg,
Maryland, United States 20877
Tel: 1-301-977-8900
The website is here.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

David

FINAL REMINDER: OAGIS 10.0 Public Review Two Closes March 21, 2013

This is your Final Reminder that OAGIS 10.0 Release Candidate Two is available for Member Review until March 21, 2013.

AS WITH ALL OAGi RELEASE CANDIDATES, THIS RELEASE IS NOT TO BE TAKEN INTO PRODUCTION AS IT WILL CHANGE BEFORE THE GENERALLY AVAILABLE RELEASE IS COMPLETE.

This Public Review contains the Chemical Industry content from our Gap Analysis with the Chem eStandards.  That was part of our agreement with CIDX when they merged with OAGi in 2009.

Public Review Two also contains the HR-XML harmonization work that Steffen Fohn of ADP has been working on as well as some manufacturing enhancements.

This Public Review will run for 30 calendar days and will conclude on March 21, 2013. From there we will review the feedback and we expect to release Public Review 3 in May, 2013.

Thank you in advance for participating in this Public Review. You can download the Public Review Release Candidate One here.  We also provide links to the License and the feedback form on this page.

Please remember you must be logged as a member to participate.  Please let us know if you have a problem.

OAGi News for March 2013

OAGi member Spotlight

This month we are continuing our highlighting of our recent Outstanding Contributor Award winners that were announced at our November 2012 Plenary Session.  This month we are highlighting Pamela Webber from Cisco Systems.

Pamela Webber, Cisco Systems

·         2007 – Present  Service on the OAGi Policy Board
·         2007 – Present  Service on the OAGi High Tech Council
·         2007 – Present  Service on the OAGi Architecture Council
·         Participated on PTP, Collaborative Forecasting, and Logistics Working Groups
·         November 2011 Facilitated OASIS Collaboration AS4 Demonstration at OAGi Plenary
·         Serves as trusted advisor for Mobile Cloud WG
·         Major contributions to vision and marketing for OAGIS X

Please join me in thanking Pamela for her many contributions to the efforts of the Open Applications Group.

REMINDER: Register now for our Spring 2013 Plenary Meeting

This is a reminder that registration is now open for our 2013 Spring Plenary Meeting to be held Thursday, May 2 and will once again be sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) located in Gaithersburg, Maryland.  We are planning one half day of Working Group meetings on Friday morning, May 3. 

We are also having a Policy Board meeting the afternoon of May 1, also at NIST.

The agenda is still in draft form, but we will be addressing the following topics:

- Update on the OAGIS Mobile, Cloud, and JSON Initiative
- Special Presentation from NIST on their new Supply Chain and Sustainability Initiatives
- Update on OAGi BPMN work
- Case study from one of Outstanding Contributors, Steffen Fohn
- Case study from Command Alkon, an OAGi member

- OAGIS Release 10 Introduction
- Working Group meeting half day on day two

You can learn about travel and accommodations as well as register for the meeting on our website here.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Mobile, Cloud, JSON Initiative continues with a great deal of interest.

The Working Group has resumed working on their own JSON Application Programming Interface (API) Guide for OAGIS Mobile and Cloud API’s and they are making good progress.  We are seeing that the Mobile JSON API Design may end up differing some from the Cloud JSON API but that is not yet final.

If you are interested in joining the Working Group please write to us at inquiry@oagi.org.

OAGIS Release 10 Public Review Two is available now!

The second Public Review of OAGIS Release 10 started on February 21 and runs through March 21.

Public Review Two contains the Chemical Industry content from our Gap Analysis with the Chem eStandards.  That was part of our agreement with CIDX when they merged with OAGi in 2009.  Public Review Two is also planned to contain the HR-XML harmonization work that Steffen Fohn of ADP has been working on as well as some manufacturing enhancements.

The Working Group continues to meet to wrap up the technical work and we are planning a Webinar that will brief participants on the features of OAGIS Release 10.

We encourage you to download this Public Review and to give us your feebback.  All OAGi members are invited to participate.  It is on the OAGi website under the “Members Only” section here.  We need all the smart people we can get!

New Manufacturing Opportunities with NIST  

Nenad Ivezic and Serm Kulvatunyou of NIST, both also longtime contributors to OAGi, will be presenting at our upcoming May 2, 2013 Plenary meeting.  They will be presenting on their new manufacturing initiatives and Working Group plans.

The first initiative is focused on “Sustainability Characterization of Manufacturing Supply Chains “.  The goals of this project include developing the necessary models, methods and tools to assess and optimize total energy and material usage, and to enable OEMs to aggregate the energy and material sustainability contributions from their own manufacturing and assembly processes with those from their supply chains.

The second initiative from NIST for an OAGi activity is entitled, “Advancing Communication of Manufacturing Information”.  The goal of this activity is to increase the productivity of U.S. small manufacturers by enabling digital communication of manufacturing information for production and data processing through development of reference models and systematic, verifiable modeling methodology that will enable new standards for manufacturing supply chain integration.

You can download their proposals on our website here. 

We welcome your feedback and look forward to your participation.

BPMN efforts making good progress

OAGi staff met with Denis Gagné to review the BPMN conversion of the OAGIS Scenarios.  The group discussed the types of diagrams to use and how much detail to show.  Denis will present the results at our upcoming Plenary Meeting on May 2 in Gaithersburg.  It is not intended that BPMN will replace our current UML Sequence Diagrams but will complement them.

An example of the work of an OAGIS Procure to Pay BPMN Scenario based on our UML Sequences Diagram version is just below.

Meeting Calendar for 2013

Our planned calendar for 2013 is below.  Stay tuned for the specific date and time announcements.  We are also planning a series of webinars covering topics on Chemical Industry B2B, OAGIS Release 10, and Mobile and Cloud efforts.

Policy Board Meeting	Wednesday, May 1, 2013	NIST	Gaithersburg, Maryland
Plenary and Working Groups registration is here	Thursday and Friday, May 2 -3, 2013	NIST	Gaithersburg, Maryland

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Policy Board Meeting	November, 2013	Oracle	Redwood Shores, CA, USA
Plenary and Working Groups	November, 2013	Oracle	Redwood Shores, CA, USA