Value of OAGI Services

Introduction

The Open Applications Group is a non-profit worldwide industry consortium. It is the largest publisher of XML based content for business software interoperability in the world. Open Applications Group, Inc. members and staff have over 6 years of extensive experience in building practical integration architecture and XML content and have developed a repeatable methodology process for quickly developing high quality business content and XML representations of that content.

The Open Applications Group was formed in February 1995 by the leading worldwide enterprise software vendors and now includes leading End-User Organizations, Application and Integration Software Providers, as well and many Services Providers.

After many years of development and deployments, the Open Applications Group has built a solid foundation of expertise in IT Architecture, Integration Architecture, UML and XML expertise, and Business-to-Business integration, Trade Exchanges, Application-to-Application integration, and now Web Services technologies. It is this expertise that the Open Applications Group is now offering to members (discounted) and non-members alike.

Offerings

As a result of our history and demonstrated record of delivering return on investment, we know it is vital to have a horizontal specification like OAGIS for integration. It may be equally important to have vertical "plug-ins" into the horizontal specification in order to carry the unique information and to restrict values that can be agreed to within a vertical trading community or for a specific organizations needs. These agreements can be captured and used to further define the integration between businesses and applications with in an enterprise.

In addition, while OAGIS is intended to be easy to use and understand, we recognize that organizations sometimes require additional resources or clarity concerning the implementation of the specification. The Open Applications Group offers a series of focused services to provide assistance to industry groups in order to create these OAGIS "plug-ins" and to provide educational support for architects and implementers as they look to use OAGIS within their environments.

For these reasons the Open Applications Group offers the following services in order to help companies or vertical industries implement and use OAGIS in order to meet their needs.

These services may be customized to fit the needs or your organization or the business situation. The Open Applications Staff have extensive experience and bring their expertise and the methodologies developed of the past years to. We invite you to take advantage of their experience for these as well as other services:

These classes are designed to be one-day training sessions to teach the student the basics of each topic. However, these can be tailored to meet the specific needs of the organization: