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UBL
UBL, the Universal Business Language, is an open XML based standard for exchanging business documents. UBL 1.0 defines a process for the order to invoice cycle. UBL was developed by an OASIS Technical Committee with input from interested commercial bodies. UBL is designed to plug directly into existing business, legal, auditing, and records management practices, eliminating the re-keying of data in existing supply chains and providing an entry point into electronic commerce for small and medium-sized businesses.
According to OASIS,
The UBL initiative originated in efforts beginning in mid-1999 to create a set of standard XML "office documents" within OASIS. The work of the OASIS OfficeDoc TC under the leadership of Murray Altheim of Sun Microsystems was set aside when OASIS and UN/CEFACT began collaboration on ebXML in December 1999. Interest in the creation of a standard XML syntax for basic commercial documents revived again in May 2000 with the decision in ebXML to omit a standard XML "payload" syntax from the initial set of ebXML deliverables. The working group that came to be known as UBL began in April 2001 as a discussion group sponsored by CommerceNet and was established as an OASIS Technical Committee in November 2001.
UBL 1.0 was officially released as an OASIS Standard in November 2004.
EDI-INT (AS1/AS2)
EDI-INT or EDI over Internet is a standard developed by the IETF to facilate traditional EDI interaction whilst leveraging the technological advances that have made the In ternet possible. The objective of EDI-INT is to reduce or eliminate the communication costs of using VANs (Value Added Networks). Other benefits include potential increases in throughput and greater visibility of the infrastructure. To achieve this, the EDI-INT protocols use the well established SMTP (with AS1) and HTTPS (with AS2) protocols. It is important to understand that the scope of EDI-INT is to ensure secure transmission of EDI data. The data, once received, still needs to be dispatched for validation and processing
In this respect, EDI-INT is an evoltionary technology. Partners that currently trade using traditional EDI can swap their VAN for an Internet based link thus reducing transaction costs without changing any of their business processes
ebXML
ebXML enables enterprises of any size, in any location to meet and conduct business through the exchange of XML-based messages.
ebXML was started in 1999 as an initiative of OASIS and the United Nations/ECE agency CEFACT. The original project envisioned and delivered five layers of substantive data specification, including XML standards for:
* Business processes
* Core data components
* Collaboration protocol agreements
* Messaging
* Registries and repositories
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