enableSME

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enableSME

• E-Business Enablement for SMEs

Information Technology Department National
University of Ireland Galway
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Why e-Business?

• In the US, ECommerce Sales in the fourth quarter
  of 2003 were 17.2 billion, a 25 increase from
  2002
• Similar growth figures available for Europe
• E-commerce revenues in Europe continue to grow -
  should top USD1 trillion by 2004 (IDC Research)
• B2B sales will drive ecommerce in Europe as the
  use of online marketplaces and online procurement
  becomes more popular with business
  decision-makers
• Although B2C revenues in Europe doubled to
  USD12.2 billion last year, this high growth rate
  is not expected to continue (IDC Research)
• Online business-to-business transactions (B2B)
  are poised to escalate. According to Forrester
  Research, the European Union's (EU) online trade
  will surge from the 2001 figure of 77 billion to
  2.2 trillion in 2006 increasing from less than
  1 percent of total business trade to 22 percent.

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Why SMEs?

• Improve existing business relationships
• Improved visibility for customers and suppliers
• Reduce order processing overhead
• Make it easier to forge new business
  relationships
• More and more large enterprise are insisting on
  some level of B2B integration from their
  suppliers

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E-Business Capability Maturity Model

• Need to do it in a way that is comprehensible to
  the users, inexpensive and has a phased
  implementation
• There are many e-business readiness assessments
  available but they are low on technology
  assessment
• Must have a strategy for going beyond the web
  page / storefront
• Developing an audit and phased implementation
  methodology backed up by a software framework
  which can be implemented in a staged manner

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enableSME scope

• Primarily focused on the technology challenge
• Provide a toolkit of methodologies, know-how and
  software
• B2B Technological Readiness Assessment
  methodology
• Standard business transactions and associated
  (XML) documents to engage in basic B2B and B2C
  e-commerce
• Integrated software solution for B2B and B2C
  e-business enablement

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E-business is still maturing

• Emphasis has changed as we learnt more
• from
• intrusive process of reverse engineer and mapping
  of internal company processes and data
• Trying to adapt company systems to our solution
• Hard-coding of legacy application integration
• to
• Non-intrusive legacy integration
• Monitoring of important business events
• Separation of business logic from application
  logic

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Revised Architecture Concepts

• Separation of Application Logic (e.g. ERP) from
  flexible Business Logic (e.g. rules in e-Business
  Engine)
• Kitbag of Customisable Components
• Base around basic (expandable) set of business
  transactions
• No / Low Licensing fees
• Proven open source software
• XML as format for business transacitons
• Support emerging communications standards such as
  Web Services as well as http, e-mail

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Why XML?

• Only 300,000 companies worldwide have adopted EDI
  because of its complexity and expense
• millions have established an Internet presence
• EDI was never adopted widely enough to transform
  the way business is conducted electronically
• EDI principle is good elimination of manual
  processes by allowing direct information exchange
  between internal applications of different
  companies
• XML allows the internal applications of different
  companies to share information directly.
• XML is both machine and human readable while EDI
  is only machine-readable.

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XML-Based e-Commerce bridges the manual gap
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Comparing XML and EDI
XML e-commerce solution EDI e-commerce solution
Optimized for easy programming Optimized for compressed messages
Requires web server costing 0 to 5000 Requires dedicated EDI server costing 10,000 to 100,000
Uses your existing Internet connection Uses value-added network (VAN) charging 1 to 20 per message or more
XML message format learned in hours EDI message format takes months to master
Only requires JavaScript, Visual Basic, Python or Perl script writers Requires highly trained C programmers
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Sample EDI PO

• BEG123401/24/2001
• DTM11001/25/2001
• PO11232324
• NTELine Number 1
• PO1299999
• NTELine Number 2
• CTT210

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Sample XML PO
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Online Catalogue B2C
Online Order Entry
B2C Publishing Engine
Product Data
XML Live Product Catalogue
XML (Orders, Queries,..)
E-Business Server
Product Data
Adaptor
Customer
Extract Product Catalogue
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Level 1 Visibility
Online Secure Customer Info Visibility
Online Secure Supplier Info Visibility
Trading Partner Management
Trading Partner Data
Event Monitor Editor
E-Business Server
Event Store
Legacy Monitor
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Level 2 B2C
Online Secure Customer Info Visibility
Online Secure Supplier Info Visibility
Trading Partner Management
Trading Partner Data
Event Monitor Editor
E-Business Server
Event Store
B2C Server
Legacy Monitor
XML Live Product Catalogue
Extract Product Catalogue
Online Ordering
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Level 3 B2B
Online Secure Customer Info Visibility
Online Secure Supplier Info Visibility
Trading Partner Management
E-Business Rules Editor
Trading Partner Data
Event Monitor Editor
E-Business Server
Event Store
B2B Engine
Legacy Monitor
Electronic Transactions (EDI, XML, E-Mail,..)
Electronic Transactions (EDI, XML, E-Mail,..)
XML Live Product Catalogue
Extract Product Catalogue
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Level 4 Business Event Management
Online Secure Customer Info Visibility
purchasing
Online Secure Supplier Info Visibility
sales
operations
event alerts
Trading Partner Management
E-Business Rules Editor
Trading Partner Data
Event Monitor Editor
E-Business Server
Event Store
B2B Engine
Legacy Monitor
Electronic Transactions (EDI, XML, E-Mail,..)
Electronic Transactions (EDI, XML, E-Mail,..)
XML Live Product Catalogue
Extract Product Catalogue
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