Wednesday, July 20, 2011

OAGi Newsletter for July 2011 Just Published

Our July 2011 newsletter went out today and a few of the highlights of the newsletter are just below. You can download it in its entirety here.

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Remember, if you are not yet a member of OAGi, we encourage you to look into the many benefits of membership, including our large and growing library of members-only content.  You can review the all of the benefits of OAGi membership
here.

OAGi Introduction Video Available

The video covers our beginnings 17 years ago and covers our scope and approach as well as our current activities and plans and is available to all for free on our website here.

Trade Compliance webinar video now available

We recently released a recording of a webinar that OAGi hosted that features a trade compliance expert from one of our members, CDC Software.

If you are a member of OAGi, you are entitled to access this content as a privilege of membership. You can watch it online below or download it in its entirety
here. You must be logged in to access it.

Non-members can receive this video for US $19.95. Please write to us here if you would like to purchase the video.

Milestone in OAGIS Release 10 (OAGIS X) Development

One of our long time contributors, working with our team of member architects, constructed and executed conversion scripts to convert our existing OAGIS Release 9.5 XSD source base to the new conventions chosen for OAGIS X.

This gives the Working Group a solid base to begin making the actual changes to the standard that have been developed and agreed to over the past 18 months.

OAGi CEO Speaking at Remittance Advice Standards Workshop on June 28

The Federal Reserve Bank was trying to understand what standards are available and how they are used so they can try to increase the number of online transaction over paper use.

One big event that came out of the Workshop was a verbal agreement to re-start the Remittance Advice convergence project with IFX and the X-9 committee, which is the secretariat to ISO TC68, which leads the UNIFI (ISO20022) efforts.

B2B Cloud Panel video is now available

This is the video recording of our terrific B2B Cloud computing panel that took place on April 20 in Gaithersburg.  This video is available for free to OAGi members and for US $29.95 for non-members.  Members can go view or download the video here.

Non-members can see a little bit more and request a download link
here.

Monday, July 18, 2011

OAGi Introduction Video now available for free

I am pleased to announce the availability of the video of our recent Chemical Industry Council webinar entitled, "An Introduction to OAGi."

The webinar is done by Jim Wilson, our Chemical Industry Council Architect.  Although this has a bit of a Chemical Industry slant, it could be useful to all who would like to learn more about us.

The video covers our beginnings 17 years ago and covers our scope and approach as well as our current activities and plans.

The video is available to all for free on our website here.

Thanks for your support.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Trade Compliance webinar video now available

I am pleased to announce the availability of the video of our recent Global Trade Compliance Webinar.

This is a recording of a webinar that OAGi hosted that features a trade compliance expert from one of our members, CDC Software.

It provides a tremendous insight into current and future global trade compliance requirements. This webinar was hosted by our High Tech Council, but applies to all industries.

If you are a member of OAGi, you are entitled to access this content as a privilege of membership. You can watch it online below or download it in its entirety
here. You must be logged in to access it.

Non-members can receive this video for US $19.95. Please write to us here if you would like to purchase the video.
 
Thanks to all for your support.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Milestone in OAGIS Release 10 development

I am pleased to report that we had a major milestone in OAGIS release 10 (OAGIS X) development last week. 

One of our long time contributors, working with our team of member architects, constructed and executed conversion scripts to convert our existing OAGIS Release 9.5 XSD source base to the new conventions chosen for OAGIS X.

This gives the Working Group a solid base to begin making the actual changes to the standard that have been developed and agreed to over the past 18 months.
While there is much more to do, we are very excited about this important accomplishment.
Thank you to all of those working on OAGIS X.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

OAGi Webinar today at noon Eastern Time

This is a reminder that you are invited to attend a webinar today at noon Eastern Time, hosted by the Open Applications Group (OAGi) entitled "Introduction to OAGi".

In this 30 minute webinar you will learn about the standards our community builds and maintains, our governance model, our Working Groups and also how to engage with the community.

You will also learn about the Chemical Industry Council initiatives and their work to migrate the Chem eStandards to the cross industry OAGIS Release 10 in the coming years.

This webinar is open to all, members and non-members alike and there is no cost.

You can register for this webinar for free
here.

Thank you and we look forward to your attendance.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

OAGi Newsletter for June 2011 just published

Our June 2011 newsletter went out today and a few of the highlights of the newsletter are just below. You can download it in it's entirety here.

1. Join us for a B2B Web Services Demonstration: OAGIS BODs using ebXML Messaging version 3.0 and AS4

The webinar will be held on Wednesday, June 29 at 11 AM EDT.  For more information and to register, click
here.

2. OAGi CEO Speaking at Remittance Advice Standards Workshop on June 28

David Connelly, our OAGi CEO, will be speaking at the Remittance Advice Standards Workshop hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and ASC X-9.  Several other standards organizations that have a Remittance Advice will also be speaking, including IFX and GS1.


The Federal Reserve Bank is trying to understand what standards are available and how they are used so they can try to increase the number of online transaction over paper use.

3. B2B Cloud Panel video is now available

In case you missed the announcement, OAGi posted the video recording of our terrific B2B Cloud computing panel that took place on April 20 in Gaithersburg.  This video is available for free to OAGi members and for US $29.95 for non-members.

Members can go view or download the video here.

Non-members can see a little bit more and request a download link here.

4. The OAGIS Release Ten (OAGIS X) Working Group meets every Friday from 9 AM until noon EDT.  In addition, we have four other sub-groups that meet weekly.  These include:

Context – Tuesday, 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
Procure To Pay Content – Wednesday, 1:00 PM to 3 PM EDT
HR Content – Every other Thursday, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Chemical Industry Gap Analysis – Three Thursdays a month, 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

All of these meeting are visible on our OAGi Calendar on the members part of the web site here.

All OAGi members are invited to join any of these groups.  Please contact me
here.

Monday, June 20, 2011

The week in review, the week ahead June 20, 2011

Last week was a very successful week for our members and Working Groups.  We started the week with an announcement of our upcoming joint webinar with OASIS for an OAGIS BOD over AS4 interoperability demonstration coming on Wednesday, June 29.

On Tuesday, we had our ChemITC call with the Chemical Council and then our Context Working Group.


On Wednesday, we had our Procure to Pay Working Group making excellent progress and then Friday’s OAGIS X call was an excellent call where we spent a great deal of time discussing better ways to add extension mechanisms to OAGIS. 

We covered at least 3 or 4 different new ways to extend.  We still have work to do on this.

Then we have our tools discussion where we are working on three different sets of tools.  The first is due July 1 and it is to be a script to help convert our existing libraries to the UN/CEFACT 3.0 formats.

The second is the new flattener, and the third is the context tool.

Our members are doing a great job and we have another big week coming up.
Stay tuned for more updates.