Open Applications Group Accelerating Specifications for Enterprise Application InteroperabilityChicago, Illinois, USA -- January 7, 1997 Today the Open Applications Group, Inc., announced that it has published its next release of specifications to provide practical and useful integration of enterprise applications from multiple sources. OAGIS Release 4 includes additional specifications as part of the Open Applications Group's accelerated process of delivering complete integration specifications which solve the real needs of customers for multi-source integration and connection to other applications. This release is now the third significant release from the Open Applications Group in the last six months. With the Business Object Documents published to date, the Open Applications Group work provides robust support for the following complex business application integration scenarios:
These scenarios address many of the business application integration scenarios that customers need to use applications from multiple sources. They are practical, robust, ready to use specifications which accommodate the advanced function of applications supplied by Open Applications Group members. "I cannot express how important application integration is to Lucent right now," said Sai Venkat, Director of Application Architecture at Lucent Technologies. Venkat goes on to say, "We are relying on the Open Applications Group to be successful because of the myriad of vendor applications we are using. Open Applications Group gives us the pivot points necessary to achieve practical best of breed integration while containing the high costs of integration and especially the costs of maintaining that integration across releases." "The Open Applications Group understands that there is an urgent need for real integration of enterprise applications from multiple sources. We have now accelerated our development processes and are delivering specifications very quickly. As our members and others implement these specifications, the promise of real multi-vendor integration will become a reality," said Paul Margolis, Chairman of the Open Applications Group. OAGIS Release 4 is available at no charge at the Open Applications Group's web site at http://www.openapplications.org. It is also available in print for a nominal fee of US $25.00, from the Open Applications Group Headquarters at 401 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611 USA Tel: 312 527 6799 Fax: 312 245 1081. The Open Applications Group, Inc., is dedicated to promoting open application integration which is the interoperability of enterprise applications from different sources. The corporate membership of the Open Applications Group includes some of the largest enterprise application vendors in the world including American Software, Computer Associates, CODA, Dun & Bradstreet Software, IBM Manufacturing Solutions Unit, J.D. Edwards & Company, Marcam Solutions, NEC C&C Systems Group, Oracle Corporation, PeopleSoft, QAD, SAP AG, Siemens Nixdorf, Software 2000, Texas Instruments, and TSW International. The benefits of open application include the ability to more easily use applications from multiple vendors, to integrate purchased applications more easily with custom-developed applications, and better support for integrating with customers, vendors, banks, governments, and other partners. The Open Applications Group headquarters is at 401 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611 USA. Tel: 312 527 6799 Fax: 312 245 1081. |