Atlanta, Georgia- January 26, 2012
OAGi today announced it has launched aMobile Business Initiative to improve the ability of enterprises to extendtheir business data interoperability all the way to the edges of theirorganizations.
OAGi plans to do this by addingtechnology to the OAGIS standard to better support Mobile Business and CloudComputing, and to provide support for Java Script Object Notation (JSON), themost common data expression technology in this new and growing area of businesssolutions.
When OAGi was formed 16 years ago, thevision was to provide a business process based data exchange language for B2B,Enterprise Integration, and Enterprise to Execution Systems. With the large andaccelerating adoption of mobile devices, coupled with the power of the CloudService Brokerage, it is now possible to provide industrial strengthapplications with full connectivity to all edges of the enterprise, as well asto customers and suppliers.
“Imagine if a worker communicates thereceipt of goods on their mobile device and the receipt goes directly into theenterprise using the same data definitions that the enterprise currently usesfor their Canonical Data Model and for doing business with their partners, withno loss of fidelity,” said David Connelly, CEO of the Open Applications, Group.
“And then the Cloud Brokerage Servicenotifies the supplier of the receipt who triggers an invoice to be sent, thusenabling the enterprise to have a fully connected supply chain from end toend.”
PreventingSilos in the Cloud
Recently, David Linthicum warned in his Cloud Computing Blog that without standards, organizationsare in danger of recreating the old silos that were built up inside theenterprise.
The concept of the “Canonical Model” inthe enterprise has become a best practice for enterprise interoperability andnow these best practices need to be brought into the cloud. If the CanonicalModel is left behind when implementing in the cloud, it may diminish the valueof IT by recreating the old “spaghetti diagrams” that so many organizationshad.
In October 2011, OAGi announced thattheir Architecture Council is leading a Cloud Computing Initiative and supportfor JSON and now that initiative is being combed into the concept of MobileBusiness, the power of Cloud Computing, and JSON technology as a singleinitiative.
The Architecture Council is looking atadditions or revisions to the OAGIS Specification to ensure that the vision ofMobile Business harnessing Cloud Computing Brokerage Services will enableenterprises to out-innovate their competition, make employees more efficient,improve customer service and control costs.
"Devices coupled with pervasivenetworks are driving the need for exposing cloud-based data services to enable'anywhere', 'any time' computing in the ecosystem," added AbhijeetRanadive, Enterprise B2B Architect, Cisco Systems (CSCO). "APIs thatenable this integration paradigm will need to have a standardized light payloadformat and JSON fits the requirement. Defining OAGi standard in a JSON formatis a way to bring together two best in class solutions to meet the informationneeds."
AboutOAGi:
OAGi is a member-based non-for-profitopen standards organization focused on building business process based dataexchange standards for Mobile Business, Cloud Computing, Business to Business,and Enterprise interoperability.
