Atlanta, Georgia
- January 26, 2012
OAGi (www.oagi.org) today announced it has launched a
Mobile Business Initiative to improve the ability of enterprises to extend
their business data interoperability all the way to the edges of their
organizations.
OAGi plans to do this by adding
technology to the OAGIS standard to better support Mobile Business and Cloud
Computing, and to provide support for Java Script Object Notation (JSON), the
most common data expression technology in this new and growing area of business
solutions.
When OAGi was formed 16 years ago, the
vision was to provide a business process based data exchange language for B2B,
Enterprise Integration, and Enterprise to Execution Systems. With the large and
accelerating adoption of mobile devices, coupled with the power of the Cloud
Service Brokerage, it is now possible to provide industrial strength
applications with full connectivity to all edges of the enterprise, as well as
to customers and suppliers.
“Imagine if a worker communicates the
receipt of goods on their mobile device and the receipt goes directly into the
enterprise using the same data definitions that the enterprise currently uses
for their Canonical Data Model and for doing business with their partners, with
no loss of fidelity,” said David Connelly, CEO of the Open Applications, Group.
“And then the Cloud Brokerage Service
notifies the supplier of the receipt who triggers an invoice to be sent, thus
enabling the enterprise to have a fully connected supply chain from end to
end.”
Preventing
Silos in the Cloud
Recently, David Linthicum warned in his Cloud Computing Blog that without standards, organizations
are in danger of recreating the old silos that were built up inside the
enterprise.
The concept of the “Canonical Model” in
the enterprise has become a best practice for enterprise interoperability and
now these best practices need to be brought into the cloud. If the Canonical
Model is left behind when implementing in the cloud, it may diminish the value
of IT by recreating the old “spaghetti diagrams” that so many organizations
had.
In October 2011, OAGi announced that
their Architecture Council is leading a Cloud Computing Initiative and support
for JSON and now that initiative is being combed into the concept of Mobile
Business, the power of Cloud Computing, and JSON technology as a single
initiative.
The Architecture Council is looking at
additions or revisions to the OAGIS Specification to ensure that the vision of
Mobile Business harnessing Cloud Computing Brokerage Services will enable
enterprises to out-innovate their competition, make employees more efficient,
improve customer service and control costs.
"Devices coupled with pervasive
networks are driving the need for exposing cloud-based data services to enable
'anywhere', 'any time' computing in the ecosystem," added Abhijeet
Ranadive, Enterprise B2B Architect, Cisco Systems (CSCO). "APIs that
enable this integration paradigm will need to have a standardized light payload
format and JSON fits the requirement. Defining OAGi standard in a JSON format
is a way to bring together two best in class solutions to meet the information
needs."
You can read the press release online here.
About
OAGi:
OAGi is a member-based non-for-profit
open standards organization focused on building business process based data
exchange standards for Mobile Business, Cloud Computing, Business to Business,
and Enterprise interoperability.
