The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced that is has selected the OASIS standard ebRIM (Electronic business Registry Information Model) as the preferred cataloguing metamodel foundation for future application profiles of the OpenGIS Catalogue Service Web (CS-W) specification. The catalogue specification defines the information required to support discovery and search for data and services and ebRIM provides the requirements to support registration of services like those specified in many OGC standards, as well as geospatial data and other resources.

Helena Chemical Company, a leading U.S. agricultural products specialist, used BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) and ebXML B2B technologies together to automate better and more productive supplier/distributor relationships.