Industry Standards

OASIS, Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. OASIS plays an active role in the creation and evolution of SOA & web services technologies.

WS-I, Web Services Interoperability, is an open industry organization chartered to promote web services interoperability across platforms, operating systems and programming languages.

The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field. Learn more about our FUSE products - enterprise releases of Apache ServiceMix, Apache ActiveMQ, Apache CXF and Apache Camel.

The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standard enables software components to work together, regardless of where they reside, what hardware they run on, or what language they are coded in. CORBA supports mission-critical applications in demanding IT environments that include the banking, insurance, manufacturing, telecommunications, and utilities industries, as well as for government defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies. Today CORBA is the underlying technology for some of the largest service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments in the world.

Progress is an active member of the Java Community Process (JCS), whose charter is to develop and revise Java technology specifications, reference implementations, and technology compatibility kits. As a leader in JMS industry, Sonic Software continues to work to ensure that J2EE as a viable technology for business integration. This includes participation in a number of Java Specification Request (JSR) Expert Groups (EGs).

Progress is an active member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C is an international organization developing interoperable technologies, including specifications, guidelines, software, and tools for the Web. The W3C drives and controls standards such as: HTML, XML, XSL, XSLT, SOAP, XQuery, DOM, and XML Signature.

ACORD, the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development, is the insurance industry's nonprofit standards developer, a resource for information about object technology, EDI, XML and electronic commerce in the United States and abroad. ACORD is a nonprofit association whose mission is to facilitate the development and use of standards for the insurance, reinsurance and related financial services industries.

ETIS is a membership based organisation which brings together the major telecommunications providers in Europe on key information and communication technology issues. ETIS enables its members to improve business performance by personal exchange of information on using ICT effectively.

FpML (Financial products Markup Language) is an XML message standard for the OTC Derivatives industry. Automation of FpML data communications can help improve the validity of data and automate the generation of data for different client formats. For instance, instead of dealing with the added expense and project delays resulting from hand-coding and testing schemas, transformations, and validation rules, developers can use model-driven tools to import rich FpML data models, configure changes, and specialize data for various constituents.

ISO is a worldwide federation of National Standards Bodies. International Standard ISO 20022 - UNIversal Financial Industry message scheme (abbreviated to UNIFI) was prepared by Technical Committee ISO TC68 Financial Services. The UNIFI standard provides the financial industry with a common platform for the development of messages in a standardized XML syntax. This flexible framework allows communities of users and message development organizations to define message sets according to an internationally agreed approach and to migrate to the use of common XML-based syntax.

The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) initiative for the European financial infrastructure involves the creation of a zone for the euro in which all electronic payments are considered domestic, and where a difference between national and intra-European cross border payments does not exist. The SEPA vision sees all citizens, companies and other economic actors with the ability to make and receive payments throughout the European Union from a single bank account, as easily and safely as they can within their own country today. Todays' financial institutions are mandated to support the SEPA initiative.

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) operates a worldwide financial messaging network. Messages are securely and reliably exchanged between banks and other financial institutions. SWIFT also markets software and services to financial institutions, much of it for use on the SWIFTNet Network, and ISO 9362 bank identifier codes are popularly known as SWIFT codes.

The TM Forum is an industry association focused on transforming business processes, operations and systems for managing and monetizing on-line information, communications and entertainment services. The TM Forum's Shared Information/Data or SID model is a unified common data model that provides a single number of terms of business objects included in basic business processes and also connections and relations between mentioned objects in telecommunications. John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect for the Communications Sector, Progress Software, is the co-chair of the TMF's SID Technical Program, the specification lead of the OSS/J Pricing API, and a member of the OSS/J order management Expert Group. Progress Software offers the DataXtend SID Model Browser which will jump-start your learning about the SID and speed your organization's adoption of this important industry standard.