The Insider's Guide to Next-Generation BPM
By Brian Gibb and Suresh Damodaran, Sterling Commerce , 04/07/2003
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Think of ebXML as an initiative with broad shoulders – broad shoulders to balance big business problems. B2B e-commerce itself is broad in scope, and while many XML initiatives are primarily technical excursions with specific scientific objectives, ebXML has sought practical business relevance right from the start by coordinating the best existing standards to address real-world business problems.
ebXML was launched in Sept. 1999 as a 15-month project to standardize the use of XML for e-business. The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), joined forces to develop and open, interoperable and international set of specifications for a technical framework using XML as an enabling technology. At the time, the concern was the proliferation of different XML initiatives, destined to cause confusion and duplications of effort.
Dissecting the ebXML mission statement uncovers the following basic tenets examined in the remainder of this chapter:
The ebXML Promise
ebXML has been the focus of much attention by the electronic commerce community, analysts, and the media. Even amid an expansive blanket of B2B standards, ebXML stands out as a guiding light with good reason. The need to extend electronic commerce infrastructure with new capability underpinned by modern technologies is on the forefront of e-business agendas. ebXML answers that call, providing many benefits:
Breaks the XML logjam
The ebXML solution is not designed to force businesses to select a single document standard but rather to make it easier to support multiple standards and make it simpler for those businesses to interoperate.
Ready for e-business
ebXML is real and it is now. The ebXML effort benefited greatly from heavy involvement of multiple industry groups and the EDI community with its rich background of experience. Multiple industries and vendors are implementing ebXML as part of real-world pilots.
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