Standards Development

Scope

The definition of this Canonical Data Model is a “single source of truth” for a business language all enterprise applications can use to speak to each other for ecommerce worldwide, for Enterprise Application Integration for applications across the enterprise such as ERP, Purchasing, Order Management, Customer Management and more. The intended long-term scope is to enable all current and future Enterprise Applications.

Purpose

The Standard is a proven standard and Canonical Data Model used by thousands of organizations worldwide. As the only Canonical Data Model standard, the Data Model is based on ISO15000-5:2014 concepts and hundreds of organizations have contributed to it since 1995.

The Standard supports Enterprise to Enterprise exchanges, Application to Application (Inside the Enterprise) exchanges, and Enterprise to mobile and cloud through the JSON expressions. This breadth of business process coverage enables an organization to use the same business language inside the enterprise as outside the enterprise and thus ensures no loss of fidelity when bringing in messages from the outside.

The stakeholders include Supply Chain organizations, Government ministries, and Software and Services organizations.

This proposal is specifically supported by our membership, the list one can see on the OAGi website at www.oagi.org.

The first customer that we know of to go live with the standard was Sasol in South Africa in 1998. Now we have thousands of registrations on our web site representing at least 99 countries from every continent except Antarctica. We have registrations from 12 African, 17 Asian, 40 European, 4 from AustraliaOceania, 8 from Middle East, 7 North America, and 11 from South American countries. One can find many case studies of OAGIS implementations on the OAGi website.