Monday, January 9, 2012

Big Year Coming Up in 2012

OAGi News - Big Year Coming Up in 2012

OAGi ended the year with a great Plenary Session in Redwood City on November 16 and 17 with a lot of excitement around our Mobile Business and Cloud Computing initiatives.   Our topics included:

- The Mobile, Cloud, and JSON Initiative for OAGi
- Special Presentation from Oracle
- OAGIS Case Studies
- OAGi Updates and briefings on Council activities
- Mobile Business and Cloud Computing Panel "B2B with Mobile and the Cloud."
Remember OAGi members can download the presentations and the videos on the members only portion of the OAGi web site here and non-members can download the presentations here.

You can also see some pictures taken during the meetings here.

Webinars coming in 2012

We will be conducting several educational webinars in 2012, including our first planned webinar entitled, “Best Practices for Extending OAGIS BODs.”   There will be an announcement on this webinar soon.

All webinars will be recorded and will be made available to our members for free and to non-members for a nominal fee.

OAGi is co-sponsoring the annual ARC World Industry Forum Feb. 6 – 9 in Orlando

OAGi is co-sponsoring the upcoming 16th Annual ARC World Industry Forum to be held February 6-9 (time is running out, make your arrangements now) in Orlando, Florida.  This year’s forum has many executive speakers and OAGi members are entitled to a 50% discount from the meeting fee.  Some of the topics at this year’s forum include:

- Mobility Solutions for Industry
- Cloud Computing for Industry
- Supply Chain Integrity and Brand Protection
- Collaboration and Social Media
- Operational Excellence for Power Generation
- Sustainable Operational Excellence Solutions
- Latest Innovations in Virtual Production

We invite you to go to the website to learn more and register.  The website is here.

OAGi Website is now fully supports Mobile Devices

We recently upgraded the OAGi website technology to fully support your mobile devices.  We invite you to try us out on your mobile device here.

OAGIS Release 9.6 is coming in the first half of 2012.

The scope of this upcoming release includes results from following Working Groups:

- Export Compliance Work Group
- Cisco Configuration updates to Quote and Purchase Order.
- iBaseT Manufacturing Nouns
- Oracle Supply Chain Management contribution

We are planning a 45 day Public Review Period with a 45 day internal review after that.  This release is schedule to be shipped in second quarter of 2012.  Stay tuned for more information on this upcoming OAGIS release.

OAGIS Release 10 work continues with five 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 – Every Friday, 9 AM to 11 AM Eastern Time
Catalog to Return 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
Context – Tuesday, 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EDT

All of these meeting are visible on our OAGi Calendar on the members part of the web site
here.  You need to be logged in to view the members calendar.

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

Meeting Calendar for 2012

Stay tuned for final dates for these upcoming meetings in 2012.  We are also planning several new webinars, details coming soon.


Policy Board Meeting – Planned
April 24, 2012
NIST
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Plenary and Working Groups - Planned
April 25 - 26, 2012
NIST
Gaithersburg, Maryland.

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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