OAGI

Now that you've taken a look at a brief history of OAGi, you're ready to explore what OAGIS is all about.

OAGi was one of the first standards bodies to adopt XML Schema and continues to define best practices on the practical use of XML Schema.

OAGi works and acts more like a development organization than a traditional standards organization.

Over the years, OAGi has been and continues to be more interested in real solutions than in academic exercises.

OAGi has done this by crafting standards where necessary and by recommending standards where they already exist.

OAGi was the first standards body to adopt XML for defining its content.

OAGi also partners with other standards bodies to provide a true canonical business language.

OAGi recognizes that it is important for OAGIS to be technology-sensitive but not technology-specific.

OAGi also has a long track record of working with other standards bodies to enable integration.

Because of this, OAGi actively partners with many different vertical groups.

You can access OAGIS along with all of the resources that OAGi makes freely available from the OAGi Web site (see Resources).

OAGi has been enabling integration for a long time.

As a result, OAGIS and OAGi seek to make the standards practical and usable.

Since its inception, OAGi's mission has been to promote and ease cost-effective integration by focusing on business needs.