Title: Open Collaboration Services Initiative OCSI
1Open Collaboration ServicesInitiative (OCSI)
The Object Management Groups
http//ocsi.r-objects.com
- Johannes Ernst
- R-Objects Inc.
Joaquin Miller X-Change Technologies
(contact info at end of presentation)
2Outline
- Business Problem virtual work group productivity
- Technical Problem technology fragmentation
- Industry Analysts
- Potential Work in the OMG
- Discussion Next Steps
20 min
40 min
3Collaboration Business Problem
Partner
Customer
Company
VirtualWork Group 1 Extension
Virtual WorkGroup 1
Virtual WorkGroup 2
- Collaborative Business
- Lower cost
- Faster, more agile
- Better cooperation, quality
- More effective use of IT
4Collaboration Technical Problem
Partner
Customer
Company
?
webapp
legacyapp
PCapp
contentmgmt.
WiFi
e-mail
wireless
AIM
OracleDB
contentmgmt.
legacyapp
webapp
AIM
- Collaborative Business
- Lower cost
- Faster, more agile
- Better cooperation, quality
- More effective use of IT
webservices
PCapp
OracleDB
G3phones
SQLserver
J2EE
.NET
Obstacle Fragmentation!
5Collaboration High-level Solution
Partner
Customer
Company
webapp
legacyapp
PCapp
contentmgmt.
WiFi
e-mail
wireless
AIM
OracleDB
contentmgmt.
legacyapp
webapp
AIM
- Collaborative Business
- Lower cost
- Faster, more agile
- Better cooperation, quality
- More effective use of IT
webservices
PCapp
OracleDB
G3phones
SQLserver
J2EE
.NET
Obstacle Fragmentation!
Solution Interface Stds!
6Ovum
Thecollaborativeenterprise
Communitiesof Practice
bottom-up/ practice-driven/ informalcollaboration
next-generationenterprisecollaborationplatforms
team rooms
desktopdocumentmanagement
expertiselocation
Processmanagement
TheIsolatedKnowledgeWorker
synchronous/asynchronousmessaging
productiondocumentmanagement/workflow
enterpriseportals
Quoted/paraphrazed Eric Woods, OvumKM World
July/August 2003
top-down / process-driven / formal collaboration
7Gartner
- Virtual teaming is rapidly becoming the
fundamental work unit for knowledge-centric work
in Global 2000 - By 2006, in 75 percent of enterprises, project
teams will have virtual membership - In more than half of these enterprises, some
project team members will be non-employees. - Currently difficulty of choosing between bundled
suites, portal frameworks and point solutions. - Collaboration support functions will become
componentized and delivered as Web services.
Source Hayward/Jacobs, Gartner
8META
- Contextual Collaboration
- collaboration not in a bulky suite of
collaboration applications butcollaboration
services are invoked within a business
application - enable customers, employees, and partners to
plan, share, negotiate, coordinate, build
community, and exchange information within
applications and enterprise portals - Organizations need to develop a strategic
collaboration plan - 1) oversupply of collaboration resources
- 2) insistent demand by users for collaboration
services - 3) long-term opportunity for contextual
collaboration to create process efficiencies - by 2004 30 of Global 2000 companies will have
strategic plan by 2007 70 - by 2007 collaboration spending 4x current
spending - recommends creating a collaboration
center-of-excellence in enterprises - Bottom LineEnormous opportunities for creating
business efficiencies and extreme market
confusion mandate the creation of a strategic
collaboration planning document to guide
investment.
Source Matt Cain, META
9The Five Dimensions
- distributed
- multi-organizational
- zero effort forbase functionality
- specific functionalityfor specific problem
- All enterpriseserver platforms
- Windows, Linux,MacOSX etc.
- WiFi, cell,bluetooth etc.
- WinCE, Symbian,Palm etc.
People
Formal/informal process
OpenEnterpriseCollaboration
- distributed
- regardless of vendor
- server-based,PC-based and mobile
Devices
Applications
- browser, rich client
- e-mail
- instant messaging
- video conferencing
- shared whiteboards
- application sharing
- voice
- web logs
- distributed
- regardless of format
- schema/semantics-aware
- server-based,PC-based and mobile
- DBMS or file
CommunicationModes
Information
10The Collaboration Connector
Facets
Standards
Video Voice
- H.26x, MPEG, G.7xx, VoiceML,
Application sharing
ExistingApplication
Real-time Collaboration (e.g. shared spaces,
whiteboards)
Contextual Notification/ Messaging/Presence
Cross-references annotation
InformationSchema Semantics
- UML/XMI, XML-S, RDF-S, Ontologies,
Information Access
- RSS, CORBA, SOAP, ftp, http, WebDAV,
Security
(probably an incomplete list)
Identity
11Potential Outcomes of this Initiative
- Architecture blueprint for collaborative business
- can be referenced by enterprises
- helps enterprises to make their businesses more
collaborative - full business context across heterogeneous
technologies - addresses all five dimensionspeople,
applications, information, communication modes,
devices - process-driven and/or free-form
- Specification for a universal Collaboration
Connector - plug-and-play heterogeneous collaboration
- common collaboration (web) services interface
definitions - full enterprise integration and context
- reduces business friction, increases business
results - Conformance profiles for different domains
- different requirements, different industries,
- defines solutions to specific needs
12WIIFY (whats in it for you)
- For enterprises (users)
- reduce collaboration chaos
- standardize and unify formal and informal
collaboration support technologies - develop blueprint for collaborative business
- provide higher business value
- For service companies(e.g. systems integrators)
- more projects with higher business value
- leverage projects (collaboration has network
effect)
- For product vendors
- address long-standing user requirements
- leverage (for you) non-core technologies that
provide high business value to your customers - increase active users of your technology
- For collaboration companies
- grow collaboration software market
- ingrain collaboration into enterprise IT
- increase utilization of your product
13Discussion and Next Steps
- Questions / To Be Discussed
- A good match for the OMG? Yes. Should be TF (SIG
initially?) - Platform or Domain? Has both aspects platform TF
with domain-specific WGs(Manufacturing and
Finance have started collaboration WGs already) - Next Steps
- Reach out beyond current OMG membership
- Open invitation to present views at next two (?)
OMG meetings - user organizations needs
- Analysts, pundits, insights
- vendors needs and possible solutions
14You are invited!
- If you are a user, vendor, analyst, pundit,
Tell us about - Your companys, or your customers collaboration
requirements, and the collaborative business
problems that you are facing! - Tell us about specific usage scenarios youd like
to see supported. - Tell us either in private (see contact info
below), or better, prepare to give a 10-20 min
presentation to OCSI with your views at one of
the following events
London, UK, November 17-21, 2003 Anaheim, CA, US,
February 2-6, 2004
This is an open initiative. We want you to be
heard!
Questions? Contact us!
15Contacts
Websites http//ocsi.r-objects.com
http//www.omg.org
- Johannes Ernst
- R-Objects Inc.
Joaquin Miller X-Change Technologies
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