Why Join The Open Applications Group

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Why Join The Open Applications Group?
The OAGIS Standard is Free, Why Pay to be a
Member?
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• Open Applications Group
• OAGIS Briefing
• July 1, 2008

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Open Applications Group
The Open Applications Group is a not-for-profit,
open, and fully independent Open Standards
Organization.
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OAGi Genesis

• Founded in November, 1994
• Originally by ERP Vendors
• Focused on how they can integrate together better
• Identified common content as biggest missing piece

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The OAGIS Standard is . . .

• Business Processes called Scenarios
• Business Messages called Business Object
  Documents (BODs)

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OAGi Membership Levels

• Policy Board
• Governance of OAGi
• 2 Council Seats
• Eligible for any Working Group
• Councils
• Set the direction for your constituency
• Sponsor Working Groups
• Examples include High Tech, Architecture
• General Membership
• Participate on Working Groups
• Technical voting rights

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OAGi Governance Model
Board Membership Level
Council Membership Level
General Membership Level
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OAGIS Working Groups

• Architecture Council
• Get/Show Verb Processing
• Quality Assurance Working Group
• Architecture Use and Guidelines Editorial Board
  Working Group
• Data Management Polices document Working Group
• Services Description Guidelines Working Group
• Machine Executable Business Process Choreography
• Noun Update Working Group
• OAGi and CIDX Convergence Working Group
• OAGIS Release 10 Working Group

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OAGIS Working Groups

• High Tech Council
• OAGi High Tech Order to Cash, Procure to Pay
• OAGi High Tech Quote to Order
• OAGi High Tech Collaborative Forecast
• Partner Council
• Just formed coming soon
• Non-Council Working Groups
• OAGi Manufacturing
• OAGi Mid-Market for Order to Cash

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Business Issues
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Business is Changing and Evolving
Focus is on Business Transformation
"In a time of accelerating turbulence, the
valuation of a company will be strongly affected
by how it executes change."
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Business Issues
CIO Priority Standardization and Process
Integration
State of the CIO 2008 survey
32 Of companies with revenues over 1billion say
standardizing and consolidating their IT
infrastructure is a top technology prioritymore
than any other.
ITs Top Technology Priorities for 2008
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Business Issues
Need for Fully Integrated Enterprise
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Current State of Integration

• Mostly at the data level
• Mostly point to point
• Custom program interfaces or flat file exchange
• Grows at exponential rate

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The Goals of the Solution

• Lower cost of ownership

• Agility

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A Case for a Canonical Model
From ltmany to manygt to ltmany to onegt
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Canonical Model

• CANON
• Derived from the Greek and Latin meaning a rule
  or standard
• CANONICAL
• Reduced to the simplest and most significant form
  possible without loss of generality "a basic
  story line" "a canonical syllable pattern

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The mathematics of scaling up
For traditional point to point orltmany to manygt
integration The number of possible
connections among any number of items is
n(n-1) for two way connections.
Number of components to integrate
Cost of traditional integration _at_ 0.1 FTE
Apply traditional formula
2 FTEs 9 FTEs 21 FTEs 38 FTEs
n 5 5(4) 20 n 10 10(9)
90 n 15 15(14) 210 n 20 20(19) 380
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The mathematics of scaling up
For best practices integration The number of
possible connections among any number is n 2.0
Number of components to integrate
Best practices formula
Cost of best practices integration _at_ 0.1 FTE
n 5 5 2.0 10 n 10 10 2.0
20 n 15 15 2.0 30 n 20 20 2.0
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1 FTE 2 FTEs 3 FTEs 4 FTEs
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OAGIS is your Canonical Model
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Sample of Customers using the OAGIS Canonical
Model

• IBM
• Intel
• Cisco
• Agilent
• Boeing
• Nokia
• General Motors
• Ford
• UK Ministry of Defence
• General Electric
• Goodrich Aerospace
• Goodyear Tire
• Lucent
• TeliaSonera
• Weyerhauser

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Industry Collaborations

• UN/CEFACT United Nations
• ISO- International Standards Organization
• MoU MG Memorandum of Understanding Management
  Group
• IEC TC57 WG14 Electric Utility Standards
• KIEC Korean e-Commerce Consortium
• NIST National Institute of Standards
  Technology
• AIAG Auto Supply Chain North America
• Odette Auto in Europe
• ITA Information Technology in Germany
• STAR Auto Retail North America
• AAIA Auto Aftermarket North America
• RV Industry North America
• AIA Aerospace North America
• AECMA Aerospace Europe
• OSCRE Facilities Management
• VISION Industry
• HR-XML HR Content, world-wide
• SP95 Enterprise Controls
• ARTS (Retail)

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Standards Collaboration

• Business language standards are maturing
• Most of the ones that will be successful, are
  successful
• Some vertical standards are moving towards the
  enterprise
• Moving forward, some level of consolidation makes
  sense
• UN/CEFACT technologies give people common ground

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OAGIS Convergence Initiatives

• UN/CEFACT
• MoU MG ISO, IEC, ITU, United Nations
• STAR Technology Standards for Automotive
• AIAG Automotive Industry Action Group
• Financial Harmonization (ISO20022 and Swift)
• HR-XML Human Resources
• ISA S95 Process Manufacturing
• WBF World Batch Forum
• EIDX EDIFACE - High Tech
• MSCI Metal Service Center Institute
• OCEG Open Compliance and Ethics Group
• STEP Product Data Standards

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How it Works
OAGIS as a Platform
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OAGIS 9 is . . .

• Canonical Format
• Common Object Model (Nouns)
• Class Libraries (UN/CEFACT and OAGIS CC)
• Artifact Subsets for SOA Service Definitions
• Naming and Design Rules
• UN/CEFACT Based
• Transaction and Context Model
• Nouns
• Verbs
• Application Architecture
• Document Typing
• Meta Model
• Technical Architecture (BOD)
• Common Look and Behavior
• Extensions Architecture
• Extrusions Architecture

a foundation and structure for message standards
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OAGIS Component Libraries

• OAGIS Library
• UN/CEFACT Library
• ISO20022 Library
• OAGIS Library
• HR-XML and Joint Automotive coming here

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Core Components, The Idea

• Sponsored by the United Nations
• Defines the basis for building business
  languages.
• Encourages all business languages to be based on
  same concepts.

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Why did OAGIS implement CC?

• Will increase interoperability within supply
  chains
• Will increase interoperability across supply
  chains
• Enables all business languages to be based on
  same concepts and building blocks.

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OAGIS BOD Library

• OAGIS BOD Library represents the set of BOD
  Definitions and their constituent parts (i.e.,
  verbs, nouns, components and fields)
• Parts are reusable, ensuring
• Common look, feel, and behavior of all XML
  messages in the repository
• Use of common dictionary across all messages
• A faster learning curve for the user
• Component are extensible, ensuring
• Ability to support new requirements

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BOD Assembly

• New nouns can be assembled from the components
  and fields in the library
• New BODs can be assembled from the nouns in the
  library

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OAGIS Platform for Business Standards
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Overlay Example
OAGIS
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Lite BODs for Specific Use Cases

• OAGIS technology also enables you to extrude
  Lightweight BODs
• Canonical stays in place
• The Lite BOD must parse as valid against the
  Canonical
• This preserves the Canonical

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Putting It Together
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End Result A Business Standards Federation
The OAGIS Platform and Industry Processes
UN/CEFACT Technologies
OAGIS Platform

• We all use common UN/CEFACT methodologies
  implemented by OAGIS
• OAGIS adds the horizontal business processes and
  data
• Others addresses vertical processes within the
  OAGIS framework
• We share component libraries
• We share data models where possible
• We share common methodologies and technology base

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STAR Industry Processes
OAGIS Horizontal Processes
AIAG Industry Process
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OAGIS is free. Why pay to be a member?

• Participate in governance of OAGIS
• Right to form new Workgroups
• Right to participate on all Workgroups
• Members protect their investment in the standard
• Members learn best practices through
  participation
• Members get outstanding networking benefits

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OAGIS is free. Why pay to be a member?

• Members get access to early work before it is
  released
• Right to participate in Interoperability
  Activities
• Free OAGi meeting attendance
• Discounts on services and training
• 25 off services and training
• Free Other Stuff
• OAGIS BOD Flattener, and more

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Join Now!

• Supporting OAGIS will save your organization
  money
• Supporting OAGIS will save your organization time
• Supporting OAGIS will enable your organization to
  be more agile

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Anyone Can Join OAGi

• Your membership is important to keep the work
  going
• Membership is open everyone
• End Users
• Solution Providers
• Governments
• Individuals

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Contact OAGi for more information
Enterprise
SOA
OAGIS
Canonical Data Model
Web Services
http//www.openapplications.org David Connelly /
770-331-8636 dmconnelly_at_oagi.org