"This represents tremendous work by the four industry stakeholders [application software vendors, users, middleware vendors and system integrators] required to achieve the promise of this next generation of interoperability,” said David Connelly, President of the Open Applications Group.  “It is to their credit that they have worked together to build this important framework which significantly advances eBusiness and Business Applications Interoperability.”

There are currently at least 26 live sites running OAGIS based integration and it is expected that by the end of First Quarter 2000, there will be at least 25 more live sites, bringing the total number of users to over 50.  These sites include many kinds of integration, including eBusiness, Supply Chain,  Financials, and Banking.

On the Right Track

Customer organizations believe that the Open Applications Group interoperability specifications for eBusiness and Application Integration are practical and useful.  "We think that the Open Applications Group is on the right track and we plan to implement their standards to integrate our plant floor systems and ready them for eBusiness", said Tim Thomasma, a Lead Architect for Manufacturing Systems at Ford Motor Company.  "Our business plans require this type of capability as we move our organization forward."

About the Open Applications Group

The Open Applications Group is a non-profit consortium focusing on best practices and process based XML content for eBusiness and Application Integration.  It is the largest publisher of XML based content for business software interoperability in the world.  Open Applications Group, Inc. members have over 5 years of extensive experience in building this industry consensus based framework for business software application interoperability and have developed a repeatable process for quickly developing high quality business content and XML representations of that content.

The OAGi membership is composed of many of the most prominent business software vendors, EAI vendors, Systems Integrators, and end-user associated organizations in the world, including:  Agile Software, American Software, AT&T Wireless, Bluestone Software, Candle, Canopy International, Compaq Computer Corp., Component Software, Computer Associates, CrossWorlds Software, DATEV, Extricity Software, Ford Motor Company, Fortress Technologies, GloTech Solutions, Great Plains, HK Systems, Inc., I2, IBM, Indus, Integrated Systems & Services Group, J.D. Edwards, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, NEC Corporation, Netfish Technologies, ObTech, OnDisplay, Oracle, PCS Inc., PeopleSoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, PSDI, QAD, Requisite Technology, Robocom Systems, Saga Software, SAP, SupplierMarket.com, Teklogix, Trilogy, TSI, USData, Vitria, Wonderware, and webMethods, and XML Solutions.