HR-XML 3.0 Standards, 2009 September 23.
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Data management refers to procedures and policies that trading partners (or internal actors) apply in communicating information between and among each other so that each maintains an accurate account of the entities being managed. Specifically, the data management approaches described in the sections that follow, aim to provide a common understanding of how create, read, update, delete (CRUD) operations are carried out.
This document provides broad guidance for data management using the "Business Object Document" message architecture developed by the Open Applications Group Inc. (OAGi). The guidelines set out in this document draw heavily upon OAGi data management guidelines and best practices. This document aims to introduce OAGi data management best practices and guidelines to the requirements and scenarios within the HR services industry. However, note that this document does not attempt to replicate the full set of OAGi data management guidelines currently under development and available to OAGi members.
The Open Applications Group Inc. (OAGi) was formed in late 1994 as the first post-EDI organization focusing on improving the state of application integration. The Open Application Group Integration Specification (OAGIS) is one of the most widely implemented XML business language standard for horizontal enterprise functions. OAGIS covers such topics as supply chain management (so-called "order-to-cash" processes), manufacturing, customer relationship management, logistics, and issue tracking and risk control integration intended to support Sarbanes-Oxley requirements in U.S. Markets. Like HR-XML's library, the OAGIS XML Standard is available completely royalty-free.
This document sets out a variety of data management options and guidelines for implementing HR-XML specifications. It does not by itself set out requirements or rules to be used in determining whether or not a solution or trading partner implementation is "compliant."
The chapter does include a number of rules with respect to certain data management approaches. These rules are included for the following anticipated uses:
Implementers may find the rules and related approaches useful to reference or include as best practices in developing their own data management policies, quality control procedures, or guidelines for trading partners.
While this document does not constitute conformance criteria by itself, the rules and guidelines could be incorporated by reference within separate HR-XML implementation profiles that may be used for certification or conformance purposes.
Note that the rules are numbered. In the following documentation, certain sequence numbers are skipped, while others appear out of order. The intent is to keep the rules tied to related rules being explored by OAGi while presenting the rules so they are most meaningful to the HR-XML audience.