Business to Business Electronic Data Transmission

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Business to Business Electronic Data Transmission

• Dr. Carol Saunders - Lead
• Dr. Pam Carter
• Dr. Hermann Gruenwald
• Dr. Jon (Sean) Jasperson
• RA Henry Croes
• RA Jon McKenzie

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Research Charge

• How are organizations migrating from EDI to
  Internet EDI?
• What strategies are being used to migrate from
  EDI to the Internet?

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Electronic Data Transmission Migration
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Deliverable

• Business to Business Electronic Data Transmission
  Website
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
• Internet EDI
• Exchanges
• Security
• http//www.ou.edu/edi/

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Electronic Data Interchange

• Computer-to-computer transfer of business
  transaction data between organizations
• PROBLEM While 95 of Fortune 1000 use EDI, less
  then 2 of all U.S. businesses use EDI (Brandel,
  1997)
• What can/are organizations doing to enable EDI
  with more trading partners?

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Internet EDI

• First waveuse of internet to send EDI
  transaction set data to and from a VAN
• Second wavetransmission of EDI transaction set
  data over public Internet
• Third wavetransmission of electronic data over
  public/private internet

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Electronic Exchanges

• Web-based, real-time transaction systems (usually
  characterized by industry-specific alliances,
  standard-setting bodies and marketplaces)
• Early wave of exchangesfocus on commodity
  procurement based on price
• Second wave of exchangesfocus on supply chain
  automation and partner-to-partner application
  integration

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Conclusions

• Stop asking questions regarding migration to
  Internet EDI
• Instead,focus on . . .
• What can/are organizations doing to enable
  electronic data exchange with a broader set of
  trading partners

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Security

• Definition (and description)
• Transfer Media
• Public
• Private
• Standards
• Algorithms
• Message Digest Functions
• Programs/Protocols for Email Messages Files
• Network Protocols

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Security

• Implementation
• General Security Management
• Policy
• Areas of Security
• Product/Service Verification
• Major Technologies
• Encryption
• Hashing Functions
• PKI
• Firewalls
• VPNs
• EDI
• Internet EDI
• Exchanges

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Security

• Resources
• Books
• Websites
• Spot Quiz
• excerpted from Tangled Web Tales of Digital
  Crime from the Shadows of Cyberspace