ASC X12 CHAIR REPORT 19951999

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ASC X12 CHAIR REPORT1995-1999

• Kendra L. Martin, ASC X12 Chair
• June 7, 1999

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October '95
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1995 CAMPAIGN GOALS

• 1) Become more responsive to implementor needs
• 2) Leverage our national interests in global
  Electronic Commerce
• 3) Foster greater industry and user involvement

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February '96
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WHERE WERE WE?

• Policy in place, implementation to be undertaken
• New Standing Document 2 (Development
  Maintenance Procedures)
• X12/EDIFACT Alignment Plan
• ANSI ASC X12 Version 4 Plan

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WHERE WERE WE?

• Researching and investigating
• modeling tools and techniques
• open-edi concepts
• future vision for ASC X12

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June '96
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Celebrating The Olympics!

• Devoted to recognizing the special combination
  of teamwork and cooperation, hard work, and
  individual stamina to ensure we all reach our
  goals and work together as a World-Class
  Committee!

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October '96
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Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act

• 1996 Health Care Administrative Simplification
  legislation mandates the use of X12 EDI
  transactions
• Proposed regulations currently under review,
  with active participation from X12-N
• Savings to the industryprojected 4-10 billion
  annually

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Industry Activities Moving EDI Standards Forward

• Consumer Billing User Guides
• Interactive EDI Directories
• New business areas, including temporary
  services, equipment leasing, and motor vehicle
  registration

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Relationship with DISAFormalizing Strengthening

• Improved budgeting and management processes
• Writing SD4 Duties of the Secretariat
• Formalizing arrangement with our Secretariat

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February '97
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Year 2000 Solution

• Integrated single Y2K solution throughout all
  standards in Version 4010
• Defines standard date in an eight-character
  format, which includes two characters for first
  two digits of calendar year

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FUTURE EDI TIMELINE
Strategic Implementation TG formed
1996
LRP / BIM / C-TG3 / SC30 convenes
Alignment Plan approved
AC.1 begins re-engineering EDIFACT
X12 Future Visioncompleted
BIM formed in X12 and EDIFACT
Future EDI TG formed
Alignment Task Group formed
SC30 Open-edi Reference Model started
Product Data introduces Modeling Concept
1990
X12 StC brainstorms areas for improvement
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Strategic Implementation Task Group

• SITG -- the Consolidation of Future Directions,
  Strategies and Tools
• Validate Future Direction
• Develop an Action plan for the Next Generation of
  EDI

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June '97
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U.S. Leadership Challenge in the International
Arena

• Participate
• in the development of procedures for CEFACT and
  the newly empowered JRT
• as a U.S. delegate to ensure U.S. interests are
  addressed
• and encourage corporate support of international
  efforts

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October '97
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WHAT HAVE WE ACCOMPLISHED?

• Version 4
• Preparation for CEFACT and expanded role in
  international environment
• Relationship between X12 and DISA
• Formed Strategic Implementation TG
• Expanded X12 and EDIFACT Help Desks
• Tools for Members Program

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February '98
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STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION TASK GROUP

• Next-Generation EDI started in 1997
• Objective -- make EDI widely available, cost
  effective, and non-obtrusive to the business
  process
• Vision -- a business-modeled approach, technology
  independent ... the shrink wrap solution

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Shift in Focus from EDIFACT Integration to CEFACT
  Implementation
• DLTG and PP Enhancing Procedures (i.e. OPM and
  SD6)
• Possible X12 restructuring to bring together all
  international coordination activities

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EXTENSIBLE MARK-UP LANGUAGE EDI

• X12 formalized a joint work effort between X12
  (CJ), CommerceNet and the XML/edi Group
• Exercise will facilitate the use of XML
  technology for standards-based Web EDI

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June '98
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Voyage to A New World
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BANKING INDUSTRY THE OFX/GOLD STANDARD

• Financial on-line consumer standards -- OFX and
  Integrion Gold -- merging
• Banking Industry Technology Secretariat seeking
  administratorX12-F and DISA have taken an
  active role in the development and maintenance
  of this new protocol

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OKLAHOMA ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE LEGISLATION

• H.B. 3287 Electronic Signature Legislation passed
  in May 1998
• Encourages the use of EDI and EC
• Not solution specific, allows for X12 control
  and security structures
• Governors task force included X12-Ks chairand
  a PIDX member

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UN/EDIFACT WORKING GROUP

• Inaugural Empowered EWG Meeting Held April 1998
  in the U.S.
• Three X12 members elected to the Management
  Committee, with a total of 7 on the Steering
  Group
• Move begins to a Single International Technical
  Assessment Group

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SOME OTHER INITIATIVES

• Exploring areas of Common Interest with OMG
  (Object Management Group)
• Joint efforts on-going between Product Data ISO
  TC 154 STEP
• New ISO TC 215 Health Care Informatics

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• Clearly, e-commerce isn't a new business --
  companies like Boeing have been conducting
  business electronically for decades through EDI
  ...
• -- PC WEEK ON-LINE, 4/29/98

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• Reports of the death of EDI have been greatly
  exaggerated and the system has not disappeared as
  quickly as was once expected.
• -- REUTERS, 4/2/98

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October '98
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TACTICAL REFINING

• Quality Process Issues Opportunities being
  explored by TAS, PRB and PP in Six-Month
  Publication Proposal
• EDIFACT AlignmentInternational Vision
  accomplished with ATG Leadership, now in the
  hands of subcommittees and task groups to manage
  day-to-day
• Strategic VisionIn the hands of the SITG to
  define structure and forward implementation

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IMPLEMENTATIONSUCCESS STORIES

• Weve got plenty of Standards How are they
  working in the real world?!

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PURCHASING CARDS

• EDI Saves Florida 190M Annually-- EDI News

• Florida Dept. of Banking Finance implemented
  Vendor EDI and Purchasing Card programs
• 4 million invoices per year _at_ 108 per for
  manpower paper
• Once fully implemented, the new system will cut
  costs by at least 40

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AUTOMOTIVE INSURANCE

• New Large-Scale Implementations in Property
  Casualty, including
• Auto Liability Insurance Reporting
• Rental Management
• Collision Estimating

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February '99
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X12 Membership Stabilizes as Technological
Opportunities Boom
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X12 Draft Standards for Trial Use
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Version 4 Approval

• Received ANSI stamp of approval for Version 4 as
  American National Standard

• Developed new procedures that accelerates
  X12-approval process

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Publication Cycle Evaluation

• Proposed Schedule Changes -- DISCONTINUED
• 4 meetings each year Feb, May, Aug, Nov
• 2 publication updates following May Nov
  meetings
• 4 maintenance cycles each year
• No interim TAS meetings
• Proposed Process Changes -- MOVING FORWARD
• Re-designate DSTUs as X12 Standards
• Treat new Transaction Sets as maintenance to
  X12.1
• 4 ballot periods each year 30 days vs. 45 days
• Eliminate rebuttal ballots in favor of Open Forums

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1/99 Steering CommitteeSITG Decisions

• Continue the active leadership role in UN/CEFACT
  in defining the next generation of EDI standards
• Pursue the concept of OO-edi development as the
  next generation of EDI standards
• Begin defining an organization to support the
  next generation of EDI standards development
  process within X12
• Proceed with the SITG Demonstration Project

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June '99
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NOTABLE EDI FACTS

• 90 of Fortune 1,000 companies are EDI capable
• 57 of Fortune 500 companies are integrating
  Internet EDI into their work environments

• Only 2 of small-to medium-sized companies are
  EDI capable, primarily due to the high costs
  associated with Value Added Networks

Source David C. Darnell, President, SysTrends,
Inc.
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X12 aligns its standards with proliferating
network of EC technologies, creating

• New business opportunities for SMEs
• Standards that are accessible to non-technical
  users and easy to integrate into plug-and-play
  software
• Expanded trading partner base

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