# Presentation: 921873

## Open Applications Group

***http://www.openapplications.org***

**David Connelly, **
**President and CEO**
**Open Applications Group, Inc.**

- XML Working Group
- OAGI Briefing
- February 19, 2003
- Washington DC

## Agenda

- OAGI Briefing				17 Min
- USAF Briefing				17 Min
- NIST Test Bed				17 Min
- Questions & Discussion		09 Min

## Open Applications Group

- Promote interoperability among Business Software Applications and
- To create and/or endorse one or more standards for easier business software interoperability

**Open Applications Group**

***Who we are***

**Notes:**
Next I would like to say a couple of words about the OAGI in order to better explain the plans of the Group to adopt the various specifications within ebXML.

The Open Applications group focuses on an enterprise’s entire need for interoperability.  They call this End to End integration.  This includes B2B, A2A (Internal integration), and A2E (Applications to Execution systems such as Manufacturing Execution or Plant Data Collection systems).

The efforts of the OAGI are focused on a horizontal based solution with a strategy to work with the vertical industry groups.

## OAGI Activities

- Technical Activities
- Interoperability Activities
- Out Reach Activities

## Short History

- 1995 - Formation of Group
- 1996 - First release of OAGIS
- 1998 - First XML Delivered
- 1999 – ebXML Participation
- 2001 – ebXML Support Announced and OAGIS	  Contribution to ebXML CC
- 2002 – Next Gen XML Schema Delivered
- 2002 – Core Components Harmonization        Launched

## Technical Activity Focus

- Open Applications Group Integration Specification **(OAGIS)**
- Business Scenarios
- Business Object Documents
- Message Descriptions
- Core Components
- XML Schemas & Examples

## OAGIS is Process Definitions and Payloads

- Scenario is process definition
- Business Object Documents (BODs) are messages within the Collaboration

## Business Object Document

- OAGIS Message Architecture
- All OAGIS XML is consistent
- BOD is comprised of
- Noun
- Verb
- Components
- Not always a traditional document

## OAGISPO Noun

**OAGIS****PO Noun**

## Verbs Constrain the Nouns

- Nouns are Consistent as Common Objects
- Nouns may need to be different at execution
- OAGIS constrains the Nouns with XPath portion of XSL (Not XSLT portion)
- The Verbs drive these constraints
- Example
- SyncPurchaseOrder
- CancelPurchaseOrder

## OAGIS Core Components

**OAGIS Core Components**

- OAGIS Building Blocks
- Nouns Comprised of Core Components
- Used to “Assemble” the BODs
- Using UN/CEFACT CCTS
- Using OAGIS CC

## Core Components Plan

**Core Components Plan**

- OAGIS CC for UN/CEFACT
- Plan to use as base to contribute to UN/CEFACT

## Current OAGIS Release

- OAGIS 8.0
- Full XML Schema, 4th Generation for OAGIS
- Approx 60 Scenario Definitions
- Approx 200 Messages
- Approx 70 nouns
- Approx 12 Verbs
- Approx 190 Core Components
- Actually the 18th Release
- 8+ years in maturing

## Current Scope of OAGIS Content

- Value Chain CollaborationApplications

- EnterpriseManagement Applications

- EnterpriseExecutionApplications

**Current Scope of ****OAGIS Content**

- eCommerce
- e-Catalog
- Price Lists
- RFQ and Quote
- Order Management
- Purchasing
- Invoice
- Manufacturing
- Plant Data Collection
- Engineering
- Warehouse Management
- Enterprise Asset Mgmt.
- Logistics
- Shipments
- CRM
- Customer
- Sales Force Automation
- ERP
- Financials
- Human Resources
- Manufacturing
- Credit Management

## OAGIS is the Horizontal Solution

## Interoperability Activities

- Ensure that implementations are interoperable
- Reduce conformance and compliance costs
- Sharing experience
- NIST Test Bed
- Korean Test Bed
- Other in discussion

## Out-Reach Activities

- UN/CEFACT
- AIAG
- Odette
- STAR
- AAIA
- EUROFER
- EIDX
- HR-XML
- IFX
- CIDX
- PIDX/RAPID

- RV Industry
- ARTS
- TranXML
- AIA
- Outdoor Power Equipment
- NIST
- WS-I
- OASIS
- OMG

## UN/CEFACT Endorsement

## OAGIS joins MoU Group

- The Open Applications Group was elected in PARIS Dec 4, 2002 to become part of a very elite group in the standards world.
- OAGI has joined the four international de jure standards organizations in a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on electronic business.
- The Open Applications Group will participate in implementation of the MoU as a registered international user group.

**AIAG ****Endorsement**

## HR-XML Endorsement

**Recognizing that XML standards proliferation within vertical industries is**
**due in part, at least, to the "not-invented-here" prejudice, ****Chuck Allen,**
**director of the HR-XML consortium, is committing his organization to not**
**reinventing the XML wheel.**
**The non-profit corporation, which focuses on human resources standards, is**
**working with the non-profit Open Applications Group (OAG) to make use of XML**
**technology it has already developed.**
**"We want to stick with our domain and not develop our own messaging layer,**
**for example," Allen says. "We don't have to reinvent layers."**
**Allen is hard at work on finalizing Staffing Industry Data Exchange**
**Standards (SIDES), a set of XML specifications to support procurement of**
**temporary staffing.**
**In April, ****HR-XML plans to deploy the SIDES specification as a Business**
**Object Document (BOD) within Open Applications Group Integration**
**Specification (OAGIS) 8.0 due to be released in March.**
**Placing SIDES within OAGIS will allow the HR-XML specification to use the**
**invoice, order, and request-for-quote technology developed by OAG.**
**This frees Allen and his membership to concentrate on issues they are expert**
**in, such as resumes and skill requirements, and not worry about formats for**
**the purchase order a company issues to hire temporary workers from an**
**employment service.**

## STAR/NADA Endorsement

## ACEC Endorsement

**ACEC ****Endorsement**

## ACEC Organizations

- Aftermarket Industry Association of Canada

- Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association

- Heavy Duty Distribution Association

- American Body Parts Association

- Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association

- Automotive Engine Rebuilders Association

- Production Engine Remanufacturers Association

- Automotive Warehouse Distributors Association

- Specialty Equipment Market Association

- Automotive Parts Rebuilders Association

**RV Industry Endorsement**

## Zap Think Briefing Note

## TranXML Acquired

## Projects Summary

- Test Bed
- ebXML
- Web Services
- Core Components
- Logistics XML
- CRM XML
- Vertical Collaborations;
- EIDX
- Aerospace
- AIAG
- STAR
- Odette
- STEP(Engineering)
- etc.

## OAGIS Live in 39 Known Countries

- Australia
- Austria
- Bahrain
- Belgium
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Ireland
- Finland
- France
- Germany

- Holland
- Hungary
- India
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Korea (South)
- Lithuania
- Mexico
- Netherlands (Holland)
- Norway
- Papua New Guinea
- Poland

- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Solvakia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States

## OAGIS Used in over 35 Known Industries

- Aerospace
- Agri-Business
- Automotive Manufacturing
- Automotive Retail
- Automotive Aftermarket
- Banking
- Bottling
- CPG
- Chemical
- Computer Hardware
- Computer Software
- Consumer Goods – Electronics
- Defense
- Federal Government
- Food Manufacturing
- Furniture Manufacturing
- Medical Device Manufacturing

- Industrial Goods Manufacturing
- Logistics
- Mining
- Oil
- Natural Gas
- Paint
- Paper
- Publishing
- Retail
- Shipping
- Software
- State and Local Government
- Telecommunications
- Tire Manufacturing
- Tobacco
- Trucking
- Universities
- Electric Utilities

**Notes:**
NOTE:  This list is not complete.  We need to update it before publishing as Final. (02/10/2003)

## ADC Broadband
Agilent
Atofina Chemical
ATT Wireless
Bank of America
B.Braun McGaw
BE Aerospace
Black & Decker
Boeing
CD Net
Chicago Tribune
Champion Paper
Chesapeake
Covisint
Corio
EUROFLUX
DuPont
Falconbridge
Ford Motor Company
Franklin Covey

- Agilent
- Atofina Chemical
- ATT Wireless
- Bank of America
- B.Braun McGaw
- BE Aerospace
- Black & Decker
- Boeing
- CD Net
- Chicago Tribune
- Champion Paper
- Chesapeake
- Covisint
- Corio
- EUROFLUX
- DuPont
- Falconbridge
- Ford Motor Company
- Franklin Covey

- Gilroy Foods
- GoldKist
- IBM
- ICI Paints
- IDS Scheer
- Labatt
- Ingersol Rand
- Johnson Controls
- Lockheed Martin
- Lucent
- Mrs. Smiths
- Pioneer
- Play by Play
- Qualcomm
- Quebec Government
- Random House
- Sasol
- Shell
- Steelcase
- US Air Force
- Xerox

**OAGI Example XML Implementations**

## Summary of OAGIS

- Rich Standard, evolving with times
- Full use of XSD
- World Wide Adoption
- UN/CEFACT CC Contributions
- Open Practices
- Royalty-Free IP
- Path to Future

## Thank You

***http://www.openapplications.org***