OAGI Industry Strategy

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Open Applications Group, Inc.
OAGI Industry Strategy
Industry Work Group
OAG Inc.
Anthony Tony Blazej Director of Industry
Programs, Open Applications Group,
Inc. ablazej_at_openapplications.org
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The Open Applications Group
Best Practices Model for Interoperability

• Industry consortium
• Dedicated to businesssoftware interoperability
• Largest publisher of XMLbased business
  transactioncontent in the world
• Using XML since 1997
• Building a practical, consensus based methodology
  for EAI since 1995

...Providing the Dial Tone to business software
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Stakeholders

• Users / Customers
• Application Software Vendors
• IT Technology Vendors
• Systems Integrators

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Membership (Oct 99)

• Agile Software
• American Software
• ATT Wireless
• Bluestone SW
• Candle Corp.
• Compaq
• Component Software
• Computer Associates
• CrossWorlds Software
• DATEV
• Extricity Software
• Ford Motor Company
• Fortress Technologies
• GloTech Solutions
• Great Plains
• HK Systems, Inc.
• I2
• IBM
• Indus

• Lucent Technologies
• Marcam
• Microsoft
• NEC
• Netfish
• ObTech
• OnDisplay
• Optum
• Oracle Corp.
• PCS Inc.
• PeopleSoft
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers
• PSDI
• QAD
• Requisite Technology
• Robocom Systems
• SAP
• Teklogix
• Trilogy

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OAGI Facilities
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e-Enterprises Integration of Legacy, New
Partner IT Assets
Extended Enterprise
BusinessUnit 2
BusinessUnit 1
Suppliers
Integration Back Bone

• Plug and Play IT Systems are Critical to
  Extended Enterprise e-Commerce / e-Business
  Deployment
• Company to Company B2B
• Application to Application A2A

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The Extended Enterprise
Consumer to Business
ERP1
Web Front end
Browser
C2B
A2A Method Handler
A2A
Their ERP
B2B
ERP2
B2B Process Manager
Business to Business
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The Open Applications Group
EAI Methodology

• Recipe for Integration
• Technical Architecture
• Integration Specification
• XML
• Middleware API

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Scope of OAGI Work

• Current Capabilities
• Financials
• Human Resources
• Manufacturing
• Purchasing
• Supply Chain
• Order Management
• Plant Data Collection
• Logistics
• Sales Force Automation
• Credit Management
• Warehouse Management
• Asset Care

• Work in Process
• Asset Care
• e-Catalog
• e-Commerce
• Supply Chain Execution
• Engineering
• MES
• Advanced Planning Scheduling
• Shipping Transportation
• Industry specific work

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The OAGI Industry Initiative

• Goal Parallel BUT convergent efforts with
  minimum redundancy
• Deploy a common architecture methodology
• Share our competencies
• Build industry specific BODs using OAGIS
  methodology
• Facilitate OAGIS API implementation by
  application SW vendors

• OAGI provides
• technology leadership
• proven methodology
• base set of BODs
• training / support
• to affiliated industry organizations
• to Special Interest Groups

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Affiliated Industry Organizations

• Industry Work Groups
• Established industry organizations focusing on
  interoperability issues
• Application interoperability effort utilizes
  OAGIS architecture, methodology and produces
  compatible BODs
• Work is performed by industry association members
  
• Committed to parallel BUT convergent effort with
  minimum redundancy
• The OAGI consortium offers a program tailored to
  support Industry Affiliates

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OAG Special Interest Group

• Semi-Autonomous Work Group within the OAG
• Focused on Vertical Industry or Specific
  Application Domain
• Works its own agenda
• Led by domain expert(s)
• Participants Become Members of Open Applications
  Group
• Business Object Documents reviewed by OAG
  Technology Work Group to ensure interoperability
  with mainline transaction sets

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The Open Applications Groups Industry
Coordination Process
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OAG Industry Initiatives

• Industry Specific XML / BOD Interoperability
  Coordination
• OMG - OAG Alliance
• BizTalk OASIS Alliance
• XML/EDI Enhancement Strategy Project
• OAG e-Commerce Initiative
• e-Business oriented Vendor Challenge

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OMG - OAG Alliance Proposed

• Coordinate Business Object Activities
• Consistency
• Eliminate duplication of effort
• Launch Ideas
• Product Data Management scenarios / A2A
  transactions
• Explore/develop methodology to use UML gt XMI gt
  DTD / IDL to produce deliverables useable by both
  consortia
• EDI to BODs via XML Strategy

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Summary

• There is a solution
• It is not just XML
• It is not just middleware
• Join the Open Applications Group and help bring
  about a Plug Play software industry

For more information http//www.openapplications.
org Tony Blazej 203-966-7388 ablazej_at_
openapplications.org
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Interoperability Council Meetings in 2000 -
Proposed

• Meetings will start with 1/2 day OAG
  Intro/Tutorial, followed by two day working
  meeting