OAGi Country Registrations now up to 89

We have several new registrations from countries not yet represented on our website before.  I am pleased to say we have added 13 new countries to our list, including:

Kenya, Morocco, Swaziland, Sri Lanka, Iceland, Moldova, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Wales, Kuwait, and Lebanon.

Our website totals are just below.

Continent	Number of Countries Represented
Africa	10
Middle East	8
Asia	16
Australia/Oceana	3
Europe	36
North America	6
South America	10
Total Countries Represented	89

Public Review of OAGIS 9.5 end Friday

This is a reminder that the Public Review of OAGIS Release 9.5 ends at 6 PM PDT (US Time) on Friday, April 1, 2011.

You can download the Public Review for free here.

 

We also have a feedback for that we welcome you to fill out on our website here.

 

Thanks to all and we lookf forward to your feedback.

Chemical Industry Webinars are coming back in 2011

The OAGi Chemical Industry Councils took a decision to bring back their informative Webinars like they held during 2010.

The Topics this year will include:

1. OAGi Orientation

2. OAGIS Orientation

3. Chem eStandards gap analysis with OAGIS

The schedule for these Webinars has not been established, but we will let you know the details once the Council works them out.

Stay tuned.

Busy Day at OAGi Thursday March 24, 2011

Thursday, March 24 was a very busy day for OAGi and it's members.

We had five teleconference meetings, including:

1. UN/CEFACT Context Methodology
2. ISO 2022 Financial Payment Harmonization
3. OAGi Chemical Industry Council 
4. OAGi High Tech Industry Council
5. Human Resources Sub-Group to OAGIS Release 10

The members are getting good work done.

Ongoing OAGi Collaboration with HR-XML

HR-XML contributed a good deal to our OAGi Global Trade Compliance Working Group Meeting today. We look forward to our continued collaboration with them on that Working Group.

Apparently they have a compliance BOD for background checking that does similar functions in a different domain.  We may be able to reuse some of their work for Trade Compliance.

Since they adopted the OAGIS Platform last year, their work is closer than ever to OAGi's work.

Now they are looking to contribute content to the OAGi Platform with the possible addition of a "Search" Noun to our OAGIS X Work.  In addition, they are participating on our HR Content Sub-OAGIS X Working Group.

OAGi Members receive a 25% discount off Quick Start Training and Services

This is a reminder to all that OAGi members receive a hefty 25% discount on all OAGi training and services.

This includes our very effective classroom training call "Quick Start", our phone support, and our professional services.

You can learn more here: http://www.oagi.org/dnn2/TrainingandServices.aspx

Reminder to register for our April 20 - 21 meeting in Gaithersburg

This is a quick note to remind you that if you have not already done so, please resgister for our upcoming meeting to be held Wednesday and Thursday, April 20 and 21, at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

This will be our 10^th Anniversary with NIST and they will be supplying a cake to celebrate!

Please feel free to forward this email to anyone you think may be interested, everyone is invited.

 You can learn more about the location of the meeting, hotel, get directions, and register for the meeting just below or on our web site here.