oagi convergence initiatives

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OAGi Convergence Initiatives


Business Issues

Integration Back Bone

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Need for Fully Integrated Enterprise


Business IssuesCanonical Data Model to integrate heterogeneous environment

CRM

Billing Shipping

ERP

Enterprise Business Object

CRM

Billing Shipping

ERP

• Growth through acquisition. Need to integrate business units

• Information is fragmented across stovepipes of applications

• Processes are application-driven, inconsistent and inefficient

• Integrations are point-to-point interfaces and difficult and costly to change


Trends in Data Standards


• EDI is not disappearing soon• 1st Generation B2B• Suited mainly for big companies• Still largest B2B environment• Organizations generally don’t remove

systems that work

EDI Views

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• XML is a successor to EDI• XML defines the data as it is

being transmitted• XML is technology neutral• More powerful capabilities for

integration• Emerging tools supporting it

XML has Arrived


Convergence

• Too many standards: ACORD, ARTS, CIDX, GS/1, HR-XML, OAGIS, PIDX, RosettaNet, SWIFT, IFX, TWIST . . .

• No single Über Language and may never be

• Look at EDI : X-12, EDIFACT, VDA, TRADACOMS, Galia, Odette, . . .


Convergence Trends

• Business language standards are maturing

• Most of the ones that will be successful, are successful

• Solution Providers are getting proactive and targeting their investments

• Moving forward, some level of consolidation makes sense

• UN/CEFACT technologies give people common ground


Convergence Initiatives

• UN/CEFACT• MoU MG• STAR – Technology Standards for

Automotive• AIAG – Automotive Industry Action Group• Financial Harmonization (ISO20022 and

Swift)• HR-XML – Human Resources• ISA S95 - Manufacturing• WBF – World Batch Forum• CIDX – Chemical Industry Data Exchange• MSCI – Steel Industry• PDES, Inc – STEP Standard• ARTS – Retail Point of Sale• EIC – Enterprise Interoperability Center• EIDX – High Tech North America• EDIFICE – High Tech Europe


Commitment to UNCEFACT Methodologies

• The OAGi Board of Directors is committed to support and participate in the UNCEFACT Core Components efforts

• OAGIS 9.0 and future releases will incorporate Core Component technologies


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.


Why Did OAGi Adopt Core Components?

• Enables all business languages to be based on same concepts and building blocks.

• Will increase interoperability within supply chains

• Will increase interoperability across supply chains

• Excellent base for OAGIS convergence initiatives


SDO Adoption of UN/CEFACT


An implementation of ISO 11179Creates common re-usable building blocks

– Conceptual Data Constructs – Core Components– Reusable logical/physical Data Constructs – called BIEs – Core Data Types, i.e. for “Amount, Code, Measure, and Quantity”

Based on Semantic Definitions– Clear rules on how to define semantics to explain what items

mean

Uses a Context Mechanism that controls how data constructs vary depending on the context

– e.g. By business process, business process role, industry, country/region, etc.

Syntax neutral– Can be used to define business documents OR business

objects/databases

Provides the heavy lifting for syntax specific representationsArtifacts identified in a registry to maximize visibility and reuse Fax_

Communication

Terciary_Person

Legal_ Address

Seller_ Identifier

Seller_ Party

Telephone_ Communication

Primary_Person

Home_ Address

Buyer_ Identifier

Buyer_ Party

Communication

Person

Address

Identifier

Party

Context

Conceptual Data Model:

Core Components

Logical Data Models:BIE’s

CoreData Type

Software Vendors Adoption of UN/CEFACT

SAP – Solving the problem: CCTS


•Based on Open Standards–UN/CEFACT CCTS–UN/CEFACT XML NDR–OAGIS–XACML–WS-Addressing

•Rationalized against Oracle Applications

•Extensible and Upgradeable

CreateSalesOrder

UpdateSalesOrde

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QueryCustomerAccount

QueryItem

UtilityServices…

Standardized Service PayloadsBased on semantics and open

standards

Software Vendors Adoption of UN/CEFACT

Oracle Enterprise Business Objects

UN/CEFACT XML NDR

Oracle Applications(eBusiness Suite, Enterprise)

UN/CEFACT CCTS

Industry Standards(OAGIS, UN/CEFACT CCL)

Oracle Enterprise Business Objects

Oracle Enterprise Business Messages

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• Naming and Design Rules 3.0• Core Components Technical

Specification (CCTS) 3.0• Data Type Catalog• Context Methodology (if ready)

OAGi Core Components Focus


OAGIS and Financial Convergence

• Part of ISO20022, known as UNIFI• Driving for convergence in financial transactions• MoU participants include SWIFT, TWIST, IFX, OAGi• Phase 1

– Credit Transfer Message– Debit Transfer Message– Delivered in OAGIS 9

• Phase 2– Statements– Still in development


Phase 1 Team Members


Financial Inclusion in OAGIS

• IST/ISO


STAR and OAGIS


AIAG and OAGIS


OAGi signs an MOU with the Enterprise Interoperability Centre

• EIC is a deliverable of the Integrated Project ATHENA a European collaborative research Project

• The EIC is an open, neutral, and independent organization, serving as a common and inclusive platform that adds value to its members, to the interoperability stakeholders, and to the established and ongoing work of existing standards development organizations.


OAGIS and HR-XML Convergence


OAGIS and HR-XML Convergence

• HR-XML 3.0 is planned for 2009• It is a next-gen body of work• It will provide consistent documentation of supported

integration scenarios across the HR-XML library. • Leveraging the Open Applications Group’s Business

Object Document (BODs) architecture for HR-XML message design.

• Leveraging OAGIS architecture provides consistency to the HR-XML library and improves interoperability across industries.


How we got together• SAP Process standards evaluation

– ISA SP95 / B2MML• SAP Discrete standards evaluation

– OAGIS

OAGIS & ISA-SP95 Convergence


OAGIS & ISA-SP95 Convergence Activities

• Detailed analysis of OAGIS and B2MML• Agreement to start by mapping from

Production Performance to ConfirmWIP• Found mapping difficult• Not a one to one• Overlaps and Underlaps• Decided to ask for OAGIS version of ISA-95

for easier mapping


• ISA-95/B2MML terminology and models are excellent for process industries

• ISA-95 standards and object models are easy to understand

• ISA-95 Standards provide• Terminology, abstract models and

transactions

P2B Convergence Team Study Results and Conclusions


P2B Convergence Team Results and Conclusions

• The OAGIS standard includes Enterprise, Commerce and Manufacturing functionality

• Manufacturing functionality is primarily discrete

• Large install base in discrete manufacturing

• Large install base in over 40 countries and over 30 industries


P2B Convergence Team Results and Conclusions• We need a solution for process,

discrete, and mixed mode manufacturing

Process Models

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Open O&M MoU


The Customer Benefits

• OAGi is building the ISA-95 Data Model into the OAGIS standard to provide a broader solution for OAGIS users.

• OAGIS is sharing their data model with ISA-95• Through the development of BODs based on

the ISA-95 data model, we have greatly enabled the user to map between OAGIS and B2MML, providing greater ease of interoperability.


Newest OAGIS Collaborations

• Retail - ARTS– Strong in POS, building enterprise connection– Standards study– Gap Analysis– Mapping to start– Considering BOD Architecture– Retail to Enterprise

• STEP – Engineering – ISO Standard– Standards study– Gap Analysis– Mapping to start– Considering BOD Architecture– Engineering to Enterprise


OAGIS Engagement Models

• Legacy– STAR, AIAG, HR-XML, ISA, WBF– Existing standard, using OAGIS technology

• Collaborative– EIDX, EDIFICE – Business Engagement, OAGi as Partner

• Integrated– High Tech, Chemical industry– OAGi Council, OAGIS base standard

• OAGi as User– UN/CEFACT, ISO, OASIS, WS-I– OAGi members and staff as users, builders


OAGIS Messaging

OAGi Engagement model

Executive Committee

Policy Board

Architecture Council

Industry Council

Industry Council

Industry Council

Industry Council

OAGi President

OAGIS Base

Expanding Use and IntegrationP

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Industry Council


What others get from the OAGi Business Partnership

• Standards Governance Processes

• Intellectual Property Policy• Standards Development

Process• Standards Distribution

Capabilities• Standards Release and

Management Experience


What others get from the OAGi Technical Partnership

• OAGIS Platform• UN/CEFACT Core Components• OAGIS BOD Library Reuse• OAGIS Architecture• Solution Provider Support• Broad cross industry adoption base


Collaboration Trends

• Cross Supply Chain• B2B to Enterprise• Plant to Enterprise• HR to Enterprise• Retail to Enterprise• Engineering to Enterprise


Summary - Convergence in Industry Standards

• Manufacturing– OAGIS

• Finance– ISO20022

• Vertical Processes– ACORD, ARTS, HL7


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End Result – A Business Standards Federation

• 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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UN/CEFACT TechnologiesOAGIS Platform for industry convergence


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