eb XML Initiative Tilak Kasturi President EPhase Software

eb. XML Initiative™ Tilak Kasturi, President E-Phase Software E-Phase. com 10/21/2021 e-Phase 1

Agenda w History of eb. XML initiative w What is eb. XML, Why it was formed. w Vision, Mission, Values w Strategies for the initiative w Individual teams and their mission, deliverables 10/21/2021 e-Phase 2

UN/CEFACT w UN/CEFACT (www. uncefact. org) w United Nations body w Worldwide policy and technical development in the area of trade facilitation and electronic business. w Headquartered in Geneva w UN/EDIFACT, the international EDI standard. 10/21/2021 e-Phase 3

OASIS w OASIS (http: //www. oasis-open. org) w Non-Profit, International consortium w Advance the open interchange of documents and structured information objects w SGML, XML w XML. org 10/21/2021 e-Phase 4

History of eb. XML w Nov 9, 10 1999 – NATO meeting, The Hague – State-of-the-market presentation by OASIS w Nov 17 -19, 1999 – Inaugural meeting, San Jose, CA – 140 participants from major companies, countries and organizations w Jan 31 -Feb 04, 2000 – Project Team meetings, Orlando, FL 10/21/2021 e-Phase 5

What is eb. XML w Electronic business XML - eb. XML w Joint effort of the United Nation/CEFACT and OASIS w “Create a Single Global XML Framework Solution” w 18 month project 10/21/2021 e-Phase 6

Why eb. XML? w Sharing information and data worldwide w Make divergent global EDI interoperable w Unified global EDI standard w Lower the barrier of entry to e. Business w Facilitate trade particularly with respect to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and developing nations. 10/21/2021 e-Phase 7

Scope of eb. XML w Focus is to develop common framework w Cross-industry processes for message exchange w Specifications in public domain w Targeted towards – Large International Companies – Small and Medium Size enterprises (SME) – B 2 B, B 2 C (Business side) 10/21/2021 e-Phase 8

Project Teams w w w w eb. XML requirements Business Process Technical Architecture Components Transport/Routing and Packaging Registry and Repository Technical Coordination & support Marketing/Awareness&Education 10/21/2021 e-Phase 9

eb. XML Requirements w Document and Validate Requirements w Serve as foundation for developing deliverables w Requirements of an eb. XML compliant application, Interoperability 10/21/2021 e-Phase 10

Business Process w An eb. XML-based business process integration w Create Meta-Model for Business Process Definition w Proof of Concept of the mappability using eb. XML w Naming conventions 10/21/2021 e-Phase 11

Technical Architecture w Defines how eb. XML represents business requirements w Reduce the need for expensive integration of business processes w Provide and support a library of common, standard intra-business processes w Define Common Business Processes, Common Semantics, Common Language (Vocabulary) 10/21/2021 e-Phase 12

Core Components w “The world does not need another P. O. !” w Identify a methodology for describing core components w Define core component content and structure w Support reuse and extensibility w Syntax Neutral 10/21/2021 e-Phase 13

Transport/Routing and Packing w Specify how to envelope business documents w Support platform independent interoperability w Meet security requirements 10/21/2021 e-Phase 14

Registry and Repository w Develop detailed blueprints for an eb. XML repository w Interface with other XML business standards repositories w accommodates versioning, metadata Registry w model interchange (UML XML Schema ) w Collect mapping templates from Process owners 10/21/2021 e-Phase 15

Technical Coordination & Support w Project Team output consistency w A clear definition of eb. XML compliance 10/21/2021 e-Phase 16

Marketing/Awareness & Education w Marketing and promotion of eb. XML w Awareness and education of eb. XML technical specifications 10/21/2021 e-Phase 17

How do you participate? w eb. XML initiative relies heavily on technical expert participation w Sign up at www. eb. XML. org w Project Teams – – Teleconference Scheduled meetings Listserv Web site 10/21/2021 e-Phase 18

Meeting Schedules w 8 -12 May 2000, in Brussels, Belgium. w 7 -11 August in the United States w 6 -11 November in Tokyo, Japan. 10/21/2021 e-Phase 19

Specification Deliverables w May 8 -12, Brussels meeting – – eb. XML Requirements eb. XML Conceptual Architecture eb. XML Message Structure and Headers eb. XML Core Components Specification 10/21/2021 e-Phase 20

Related Documents w Please Visit www. eb. XML. org for archive of documents, meeting notes, team presentations w A copy of this presentation! – Please contact me. 10/21/2021 e-Phase 21

Participants w Jan 31 -Feb 04 Orlando Meeting – 14 countries – 83 companies w Government Agencies w National and International standards organizations w 500 by virtual participation 10/21/2021 e-Phase 22

Participating Companies w IBM, Sun Microsystems, Commerce One, Dun & Bradstreet, Oracle, Visa International, General Motors w IETF/Internet Open Trading, Object Management Group (OMG), Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA), Commerce. Net, Data Interchange Standards Association w Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and United Kingdom, Netherlands, Finland, India 10/21/2021 e-Phase 23

Mission Statement w “Create a Single Global XML Framework Solution” 10/21/2021 e-Phase 24

Q&A For Further Info Contact Tilak Kasturi tilak@e-phase. com 10/21/2021 e-Phase 25