EDI Glossary : O
OASIS: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. A not-for-profit global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards.
Object: Any entity about which we store data and the operations to manipulate that data.
ODETTE: Organization for Data Exchange Through Teletransmission in Europe. Refers to both the European automotive industry body and the EDIFACT EDI standard subset for that industry.
OFTP: ODETTE File Transfer Protocol. The messaging protocol for the European automotive industry.
OFTP v2.0: An update on the OFTP protocol which has been designed from the outset to be used over the internet. OFTP v2.0 offers a number of benefits over OFTP including data compression, exchange of digital certificates and large file transmission between business partners.
OSI: Open Systems Interconnect. Structure based on seven-layer model developed by ISO, which will allow different computer manufacturers’ machines to communicate with one another.
Open Network: A network with which outside parties can communicate.
