Integration standards: GXS joins high-tech council with IBM, Intel, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 10/31/2007 8:28:00 AM
B2B e-commerce specialist GXS has been named a founding member of the Open Applications Group (OAGi) High-Tech Council, which seeks to create business integration standards that support the diverse integration needs of the high-tech community, and enable inter-industry supply chain collaboration.
OAGi is the governing group for the OAGIS standard. Other founding members include Cisco, IBM, Intel, Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft.
OAGIS eXensible mark-up language (XML) is said to be the only solution architected to support business integration needs both inside and outside the enterprise. OAGIS is based on a rich set of process definitions and XML-based message definitions. As the most mature XML format, it is an accepted standard across industries.
OAGIS is supported by GXS Trading Grid, a global B2B e-commerce and integration platform. As part of the High-Tech Council, GXS will offer B2B integration expertise to support advancement of an open standard for inter-business process integration.
"The high-tech industry is facing unprecedented levels of complexity in getting products to market, with more participants in the supply chain than ever before, and supply and demand spread around the world. This has increased the importance of open B2B standards to streamline and automate collaboration between companies in the high-tech value chain," says Ryan Kraudel, who leads GXS' high-tech industry strategy and marketing. "GXS is committed to working with OAGi to advance the development and adoption of OAGIS in the high-tech industry and ensure the standard continues to provide a robust integration solution."
