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iWay Software is committed to supporting a wide variety of open standards and protocols that enable companies to easily conduct electronic business. Incorporating open standards facilitates the reuse of integration components and allows companies to implement collaborative applications that streamline business relations and reduce cycle times. Our standards-based philosophy also helps ensure customers will be able to adapt quickly to emerging standards in the future and leverage associated business opportunities quickly. iWay's affiliations range from basic memberships in HL7, and UCCnet to co-committee chairs at OASIS in Business Creation Methodology. AIAG - The Automotive Industry Action Group is a globally recognized cooperative organization founded in 1982 by visionary managers from DaimlerChrysler, Ford, and GM. AIAG focuses on continuously improving business processes and practices involving trading partners throughout the automotive supply chain. Read more about iWay's involvement with Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail. ASC X12 - ASC X12 is the U.S. standards body for the cross-industry development, maintenance, and publication of electronic data exchange standards, based on but not limited to X12 EDI, XML, and UN/EDIFACT formats. As the preferred standards body for defining requirements of electronic business document content, ASC X12 also serves as a key player in international forums by contributing to the universal core component work and message design architecture. DISA - Established as a not-for-profit, the Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA) is home for the development of cross-industry electronic business interchange standards. DISA serves as the Secretariat for ASC X12 and their X12 EDI and XML standards development process. Drummond Group - Drummond Group Inc. (DGI) works with software vendors, vertical industries, and the standards community to drive adoption for standards by conducting interoperability and conformance testing, publishing related strategic research and developing vertical industry strategies. Founded in 1996, DGI represents best-of-breed in the industry on linking horizontal infrastructure technologies, standards, and interoperability issues with the needs of vertical industries such as retail, grocery, health care, transportation, government, and automotive. eBusinessReady - eBusinessReady is an industry-neutral testing program for eBusiness software vendors to enable vertical and horizontal interoperability across the supply chain and distribution channels. For companies engaged in the growing electronic commerce marketplace, software interoperability is vital, and its absence can strongly inhibit supply chain implementations and add significant supply chain costs. This interoperability testing program allows different software offerings to work together in system-to-system communication for improved supply chain performance. The program brings together software vendors, exchanges, vertical industries, and the standards community in a neutral, standards-based testing environment that simulates real-world operating conditions. ebXML - iWay holds a chair in Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML), an XML vernacular sponsored by UN/CEFACT and OASIS. Its modular suite of specifications enables enterprises of any size and in any geographical location to conduct business over the Internet. Technical committees for the ebXML Registry, Messaging, Collaborative Partners, and Implementations are hosted by OASIS, and Business Process and Core Component Work is hosted by UN/CEFACT. HL7 - Health Level Seven (7) produces standards for exchange, management, and integration of data that support clinical patient care and the management, delivery, and evaluation of healthcare services. HL7 is one of several ANSI-accredited Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) that produce standards for healthcare domains such as pharmacy, medical devices, imaging, or insurance claims transactions. HL7's domain is clinical and administrative data. Learn more about iWay's HL7 adapter. IETF - The Internet Engineering Task Force is a large, open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. JCP - The Java Community Process represents the Java platform as it has evolved and continues to evolve. JCP is an organization of international Java developers and licensees whose charter is to develop and revise Java technology specifications, reference implementations, and technology compatibility kits. JCP evolved from the informal process Sun Microsystems started in 1995 to a formalized group involving representatives from organizations across the Java community. Learn more about iWay's commitment to the Java community. OAGI, OAGIS and OAG BODs - iWay is a member of the Open Applications Group (OAGI). OAGI a nonprofit consortium focused on B2B best practices and process-based XML content for e-Business and Application Integration. Major ERP vendors and users are members of OAGIS, the standards body responsible for the Open Applications Group Interface Specification (OAGIS), a widely accepted standard within the supply chain domain for passing data in and out of applications in an XML format. The OAGIS standard bundles related information into a structure called a Business Object Document (BOD) - over 120 BODs are published. Learn more about iWay's OAGIS XML eBusiness Adapter. OASIS - The Organization for Structured Information Standards is the home for industry groups and organizations interested in developing XML specifications. OASIS is a nonprofit, international consortium dedicated to accelerating adoption of product-independent formats for structured information processing based on public standards including SGML, XML, HTML, and others. OASIS operates XML.org, the non-commercial portal that delivers information on the use of XML in industry with a registry serving as an open community clearinghouse for distributing and locating XML application schemas, vocabularies, and related documents. OMG - iWay Software belongs to the Object Management Group, an open membership, not-for-profit consortium that produces computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications. OMG delivers standards in industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, and telecommunications. Its flagship specification is the multi-platform Model Driven Architecture (MDA) based on the modeling specifications MOF, UML, XML, and CWM. OMG's own middleware platform is CORBA, including IIOP and the Interface Definition Language OMG IDL. SWIFT - The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) is the industry-owned cooperative supplying secure messaging services and interface software to 7,000 financial institutions in 198 countries. SWIFT provides messaging services to banks, broker/dealers, and investment managers, as well as to market infrastructures in payments, treasury, securities, and trade. These services help customers reduce costs, improve automation, and manage risk. Learn more about iWay's SWIFT adapter. UCCnet - The Uniform Code Council aims to synchronize item information among all trading partners within 23 industries. The UCCnet standard enables collaborative relationships to be formed through electronic trading in the manufacturing supply chain. UCCnet standards allow each product to be identified throughout a supply chain as it moves from the manufacturer to the end-consumer. UCCnet attributes include a number identifying the manufacturer, item weight, and packaging dimensions. UDDI - The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) protocol is a cross-industry effort driven by major platform and software providers, as well as marketplace operators and e-business leaders within the OASIS consortium. UDDI creates a standard interoperable platform for use by companies and applications to quickly, easily, and dynamically find and use Web services over the Internet. UDDI also allows operational registries to be maintained for different purposes in different contexts. Read about iWay's involvement in the UDDI Project. UN/CEFACT - The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business is the UN body mandated for worldwide policy and technical development of trade facilitation and electronic business. Headquartered in Geneva, UN/CEFACT developed and promotes many tools to facilitate global business processes including UN/EDIFACT, the international EDI standard. Learn more about iWay's EDI adapter. WEDISNIP - iWay belongs to the Workgroup Electronic Data Interchange/Strategic National Implementation Process, a key coordinator of implementation of HIPAA standards. WEDISNIP's organization provides a forum for defining standards, resolving implementation issues, delivering education and training programs, and developing strategies and tactics for electronic commerce in the healthcare industry. SNIP represents the process of collaboratively developing and implementing industry-wide healthcare standards. Learn more about iWay's HIPAA adapter. WS-I - The Web services Interoperability Organization is an open industry effort chartered to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, applications, and programming languages. WS-I brings together a diverse community of Web services leaders to respond to customer needs by providing guidance, recommended practices, and supporting resources for developing interoperable Web services. Read about iWay's Web service generator, iWay Business Services Engine. XML.ORG - XML.ORG is an industry Web portal formed and introduced in June 1999 by OASIS, the XML interoperability consortium, to minimize overlap and duplication in XML languages and standard initiatives. It provides public access to XML information and schemas in a centralized repository. Read about iWay Service Manager.