OAGIS Use Survey Preliminary Results

Since we launched our survey a week ago, we have received 77 responses so I thought I would release these preliminary results.

The even match with B2B and A2A is consistent with other surveys we have done. The use of OAGIS for SOA and Web Services seems to be consistent with questions we get about using OAGIS.

Even the Cloud number is good considering it is a new technology. OAGi is working to ensure that Cloud Technologies are also based on open standards.

How are you using OAGIS?	Number of Response(s)	Response Ratio
Business to Business	48	63.1%
Application to Application	55	72.3%
Business to Consumer	7	9.2%
In a Cloud	5	6.5%
For SOA Implementation	36	47.3%
To Implement Web Services	32	42.1%
For Master Data Management	20	26.3%
For Data Warehousing	3	3.9%

Chemical Industry webinar a big success

We held our first of three planned webinars on eBusiness in the Chemical Industry yesterday and it was a big success. The theme of the webinar series is, "Collaborate, Integrate, Participate".

The title of the webinar yesterday was, "EDI to Industry XML and Beyond".

We had 87 registered for the event and Tom Fannon, the Chair of the OAGi Chemical Industry Council was the featured speaker.

Watch this space for the announcement of the next in the series.

Up to 73 countries represented in registrations

Since our last post on this topic, we discovered two more countries registered. We are now up to 73.

The new breakdown is just below. It is always exciting to see the breadth of our community.

Continent	Number of Countries Represented
Africa	10
Asia	15
Australia/Oceana	3
Europe	29
North America	6
South America	10
Total Countries Represented	73

May Meeting Presentations now available

May 2010 Meeting a Success

Our May 2010 face to face meeting was a big success. Once again, our long-standing partner, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted us at their headquarters in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

The keynote was entitled "Interplay between models in engineering and business domains" and was delivered by the new Chief of Manufacturing Systems Integration Lab, Vijay Srinivasan.

We had reports from all of our Councils, and a special report from our newest Council, our Metals Industry Council.

The day was concluded by a tremendous panel entitled, "What is the most important issue facing e-Commerce today?" with representatives from the High Tech, Chemical, Metals, and Oil and Gas industries.

Thank you to all for making this meeting such a tremendous success. You can download the presentations on our website here.

71 Countries Registered on OAGi Website

I was going though our registered users again and thought it would be good to provide an update.

We continue to add 65 to 70 new registrations on our website each and every week and we are up to 71 countries represented. The most exotic country award goes to Tuvalu Island! We are also seeing more and more registrations from China.

Detailed breakout by country is just below. Thanks to all for your support.

Continent	Number of Countries Represented
Africa	5
Asia	19
Australia/Oceana	2
Europe	29
North America	6
South America	10
Total Countries Represented	71

TWENTY FOURTH MEETING OF THE ISO-IEC-ITU-UN/ECE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING MANAGEMENT GROUP

Today is the 24th meeting of a group that comes together twice a year to coordinate world wide standards setting efforts.

The group is comprised of the 4 de jure standards organizations as stated in the tile of this post, but also many standards development organizations (SDOs), including ourselves, SWIFT, OASIS, and GS1.

The meeting is in Geneva, and we are participating remotely. Our update will summarize our convergence efforts and our work with UN/CEFACT. You can find out more about this group here.

Sustainability Consortium

SAP invited us this week to participate in a press release concerning their involvement in the Sustainability Consortium that Walmart is starting.

They plan to introduce us to the leadership once they join and we plan to propose working with them.

You can find more information on them here.