OAGi has been contributing to the work of UN/CEFACT since 1999. As UN/CEFACT is an intergovernmental body of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), which reports to ECOSOC, our acquisition of official status with ECOSOC should improve our members’ standing in its further work with UN/CEFACT.
Monday, July 19, 2010
OAGi Registered as an UN Economic and Social Council Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
OAGi has completed the registration process to become a registered NGO with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
OAGi has been contributing to the work of UN/CEFACT since 1999. As UN/CEFACT is an intergovernmental body of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), which reports to ECOSOC, our acquisition of official status with ECOSOC should improve our members’ standing in its further work with UN/CEFACT.
OAGi has been contributing to the work of UN/CEFACT since 1999. As UN/CEFACT is an intergovernmental body of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), which reports to ECOSOC, our acquisition of official status with ECOSOC should improve our members’ standing in its further work with UN/CEFACT.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Second Chemical Industry Council webinar is another success
The Chemical Industry Council held their second webinar is their three part series. The name of this webinar was "Implementing Standards in and Beyond the Chemical Industry: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly".
Our Council Chair, Tom Fannon, and long time CIDX contributor Nancy Fazzoni discussed their experiences on this topic.
Stay tuned for the announcement of the third webinar in the series.
Our Council Chair, Tom Fannon, and long time CIDX contributor Nancy Fazzoni discussed their experiences on this topic.
Stay tuned for the announcement of the third webinar in the series.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
European Chemical Industry Standards Opportunity
We have recently been approached by the European Council of the Chemical Industry (Cefic at http://www.cefic.org/) located in Brussels, Belgium.
A new EU legislation named REACH, is being implemented for manufacturers, importers and supply chain actors. One of the key objectives of REACH is the safe use of substances throughout the supply chain.
As a result of this legislation, an joint initiative including Industry Associations (Cefic, FECC, and DUCC), the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA, which is equivalent to the USA Environmental Protection Agency, and several IT solution providers, has been started to develop a standard (XML) for exchange of the necessary related data throughout the Supply Chain.
They are asking OAGi if we would consider adopting the standard, including it in our portfolio, and take over governance of it.
We will be meeting with them over the next several months to discuss this further.
Stay tuned for updates. In the meantime, we are open to comments and feedback.
A new EU legislation named REACH, is being implemented for manufacturers, importers and supply chain actors. One of the key objectives of REACH is the safe use of substances throughout the supply chain.
As a result of this legislation, an joint initiative including Industry Associations (Cefic, FECC, and DUCC), the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA, which is equivalent to the USA Environmental Protection Agency, and several IT solution providers, has been started to develop a standard (XML) for exchange of the necessary related data throughout the Supply Chain.
They are asking OAGi if we would consider adopting the standard, including it in our portfolio, and take over governance of it.
We will be meeting with them over the next several months to discuss this further.
Stay tuned for updates. In the meantime, we are open to comments and feedback.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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% |
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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.
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
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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.
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