ebXML Initiative

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ebXML Initiative

• Tilak Kasturi, President
• E-Phase Software
• E-Phase.com

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Agenda

• History of ebXML initiative
• What is ebXML,Why it was formed.
• Vision, Mission, Values
• Strategies for the initiative
• Individual teams and their mission, deliverables

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UN/CEFACT

• UN/CEFACT (www.uncefact.org)
• United Nations body
• Worldwide policy and technical development in the
  area of trade facilitation and electronic
  business.
• Headquartered in Geneva
• UN/EDIFACT, the international EDI standard.

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OASIS

• OASIS (http//www.oasis-open.org)
• Non-Profit, International consortium
• Advance the open interchange of documents and
  structured information objects
• SGML,XML
• XML.org

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History of ebXML

• Nov 9, 10 1999
• NATO meeting, The Hague
• State-of-the-market presentation by OASIS
• Nov 17-19, 1999
• Inaugural meeting, San Jose, CA
• 140 participants from major companies, countries
  and organizations
• Jan 31-Feb04, 2000
• Project Team meetings, Orlando, FL

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What is ebXML

• Electronic business XML - ebXML
• Joint effort of the United Nation/CEFACT and
  OASIS
• Create a Single Global XML Framework Solution
• 18 month project

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Why ebXML?

• Sharing information and data worldwide
• Make divergent global EDI interoperable
• Unified global EDI standard
• Lower the barrier of entry to eBusiness
• Facilitate trade particularly with respect to
  small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and
  developing nations.

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Scope of ebXML

• Focus is to develop common framework
• Cross-industry processes for message exchange
• Specifications in public domain
• Targeted towards
• Large International Companies
• Small and Medium Size enterprises (SME)
• B2B, B2C (Business side)

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Project Teams

• ebXML requirements
• Business Process
• Technical Architecture
• Core Components
• Transport/Routing and Packaging
• Registry and Repository
• Technical Coordination support
• Marketing/AwarenessEducation

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ebXML Requirements

• Document and Validate Requirements
• Serve as foundation for developing deliverables
• Requirements of an ebXML compliant application,
  Interoperability

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Business Process

• An ebXML-based business process integration
• Create Meta-Model for Business Process Definition
• Proof of Concept of the mappability using ebXML
• Naming conventions

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Technical Architecture

• Defines how ebXML represents business
  requirements
• Reduce the need for expensive integration of
  business processes
• Provide and support a library of common, standard
  intra-business processes
• Define Common Business Processes, Common
  Semantics, Common Language (Vocabulary)

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Core Components

• The world does not need another P.O.!
• Identify a methodology for describing core
  components
• Define core component content and structure
• Support reuse and extensibility
• Syntax Neutral

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Transport/Routing and Packing

• Specify how to envelope business documents
• Support platform independent interoperability
• Meet security requirements

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Registry and Repository

• Develop detailed blueprints for an ebXML
  repository
• Interface with other XML business standards
  repositories
• accommodates versioning, metadata Registry
• model interchange (UML ??XML Schema )
• Collect mapping templates from Process owners

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Technical Coordination Support

• Project Team output consistency
• A clear definition of ebXML compliance

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Marketing/Awareness Education

• Marketing and promotion of ebXML
• Awareness and education of ebXML technical
  specifications

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How do you participate?

• ebXML initiative relies heavily on technical
  expert participation
• Sign up at www.ebXML.org
• Project Teams
• Teleconference
• Scheduled meetings
• Listserv
• Web site

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Meeting Schedules

• 8-12 May 2000, in Brussels, Belgium.
• 7-11 August in the United States
• 6-11 November in Tokyo, Japan.

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Specification Deliverables

• May 8-12, Brussels meeting
• ebXML Requirements
• ebXML Conceptual Architecture
• ebXML Message Structure and Headers
• ebXML Core Components Specification

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Related Documents

• Please Visit www.ebXML.org for archive of
  documents, meeting notes, team presentations
• A copy of this presentation! Please contact me.

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Participants

• Jan 31-Feb 04 Orlando Meeting
• 14 countries
• 83 companies
• Government Agencies
• National and International standards
  organizations
• 500 by virtual participation

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Participating Companies

• IBM, Sun Microsystems, Commerce One, Dun
  Bradstreet, Oracle, Visa International, General
  Motors
• IETF/Internet Open Trading, Object Management
  Group (OMG), Data Interchange Standards
  Association (DISA), CommerceNet, Data Interchange
  Standards Association
• Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and
  United Kingdom, Netherlands, Finland, India

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Mission Statement

• Create a Single Global XML Framework Solution

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QAFor Further InfoContactTilak
Kasturitilak_at_e-phase.com