OAGi News for February, 2010

We recently published our February newsletter and it is packed full of good information. Highlights include:

1) Introduction of the Metals Council

2) Chemical Council welcome to the Metals Council

3) Updates from the High Tech Council and Architecture Council

4) Updates on our Working Groups

5) Some cool links on the web referring to OAGi

I invite you to download the news from our web site at www.oagi.org

Metals Industry Council Finalized

We had a terrific meeting yesterday in Chicago and finalized our contract with the Metals Industry.

We signed the contract and we had detailed discussions on moving their work program forward. They seem very ready to make real progress in 2010.

This is our third Industry Council now, with High Tech, Chemical, and Metals, in addition to our Architecture Council and our Partner Council.

It seems the message of cross industry standards based on UN/CEFACT Core Components technology resonates.

Thanks again for all of the support.

OAGi Anti-Trust Policy

With the growth of our Industry Councils, it has become time to implement an OAGi Anti-Trust Policy.

I have been working with our Board and the heads of Councils to develop this policy, and today we rolled it out.

It is very straight forward thanks to some teamwork from one our of sister standards organization.

I invite you to read it here.

Outstanding December Face to Face Meeting

Many thanks to all who helped make our December face to face meeting a tremendous success! We had a record crowd and many amazing presentations.

It was great to see all of the energy in the room. We also had good turnouts for our two Working Group meetings the next day. Both the Logistics WG and the OAGIS Release 10 WG made good progress.

We have posted the presentations from the meeting on our website and all the presentations are free. The link to the download page is here.

Exciting Meeting December 2 in San Francisco

Our agenda for Wednesday, December 2 in Redwood Shores, near San Francisco, is shaping up to be a terrific cross section of case studies, demonstrations, and updates on activities.

We have presentations from the three biggest application software companies in the world. This includes SAP, Oracle, and Infor. You can find our agenda here.

Presentations from OAGi Amsterdam Meeting Available

We had a tremendous meeting in Amsterdam on October 27. We welcome you to see the results here.

We did this meeting co-located with EDIFICE, one of our partner organizations for the High Tech Industry, although we also had attendees from retail, agriculture, automotive, and telecommunications.

A special thanks to our host, GXS, who is a member of our High Tech Council.

Thanks very much for your support as a member of OAGi!

OAGi News for October

We recently published our October newsletter and as usual, we continue to have exciting events to report. Highlights include:

OAGi's Growing Community - Steel Industry Council is coming

Since our September newsletter we have had renewed talks with the Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) and they have indicated that they want to move forward to form a Steel Industry Council as soon as possible.

The MSCI (www.msci.org) is a trade association that supports and represents the most elements of the metals value chain, including metals producers, distributors, and processors and, to a lesser extent, the interests of metals users.

We are in active planning now to move forward. Please stay tuned for more details.

HR-XML and OAGIS
HR-XML released their next generation Version 3.0 of their standards on September 23rd, 2009. This release represents a major collaboration effort with the OAGi members and staff as they have contributed to the architecture and the review of HR-XML 3.0 from its beginning.

Release 3.0 of HR-XML uses the BOD architecture, our base component libraries, and also the OAGIS implementation of UN/CEFACT Core Components version 2.01 because it is based on the OAGi business standards platform. You can read the HR-XML Press Release here.

UN/CEFACT Approves Core Component Technical Specification (CCTS) and Business Data Type (BDT) Catalog version 3.0.

As most of you know by now, OAGi is working on a next generation version of OAGIS called OAGIS Release 10. This release will use the new versions of UN/CEFACT CCTS and the BDT Catalog, making this milestone approval very important to all members and users of OAGi.

The 3.0 version of the Naming and Design Rules, which OAGIS Release 10 will also use, was also nearly completed as well.

Many of our members and staff contributed directly to the success of this effort.