Many companies are already engaged in a far-reaching transition as they automate their business processes and move to a services-oriented architecture. The business value lies in reduced complexity, time and costs asscociated with creating and modifying value chains, allowing them to significantly improve business agility.

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The unique approach of ebXML for application-to-application exchange of business data has been built on a solid experience in business process standardization combined with the opportunities the Internet and XML now offer. This session will provide a technical overview of the ebXML architecture, the approach to messaging and the infrastructure.

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IBM Corp. has said it will not charge royalties on its patented technology within the Electronic Business XML (Extensible Markup Language) or ebXML standard.

How does ebXML fit with the work of other industry standards groups? This panel will feature representatives from the Object Management Group (OMG), HR-XML, the Human Resources XML Consortium, the Open Travel Alliance, a DISA organization, and the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG). Each will provide information about how the work of their group relates to ebXML and their plans for the future.

Deciding on an XML vocabulary is one of the critical decisions an organization can make. The most obvious option is to select an existing vocabulary. This presentation provides strategies for locating, reviewing, and selecting just the XML vocabulary to adopt. It also delves into the ebXML initiative and how it works with XML vocabularies.

ebXML (Electronic Business XML) is a project to use the Extensible Markup Language (XML) to standardize the secure exchange of business data. Among other purposes, ebXML would encompass and perhaps replace a familiar standard called Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). ebXML is designed to enable a global electronic marketplace in which enterprises of any size, and in any location, could safely and securely transact business through the exchange of XML-based messages. The United Nations body for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business Information Standards (UN/CEFACT) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) launched the project as a joint initiative. Its membership includes 75 companies, including major IT vendors and trade associations throughout the world.

In architecting an ebXML solution, some thought must be given to the protection of information from the modelling of the business process through the message exchange. A group of ebXML participants have authored a risk assessment document identifying the risks and countermeasures that exist in a subset of the V1 specifications including some recommendations for emerging technologies to track. A summary of this document will be presented with an overview of some additional countermeasures currently being defined in the W3C and Oasis.

A standard XML specification for electronic trading partner agreements (TPA) is essential to widespread electronic business. The ebXML TPA provides a key element for interoperability among B2B server implementations. This paper will describe how the ebXML Trading-Partners specification defines technical parameters of trading partner profiles and agreements. Details will include partner identification, communications protocol, security for message exchanges (including encryption, authentication, and non-repudiation) and definition of requests and responses.

How does ebXML fit with the work of other industry standards groups? This panel will feature representatives from the Object Management Group (OMG), HR-XML, the Human Resources XML Consortium, the Open Travel Alliance, a DISA organization, and the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG). Each will provide information about how the work of their group relates to ebXML and their plans for the future.

On November 5, 2003, Adobe Systems Incorporated acquired the technology assets of Yellow Dragon Software Corporation, a leader in the development and implementation of ebXML, an open standard technology. The acquisition of this technology extends the value of the Adobe® Intelligent Document Platform to customers who want to automate and simplify electronic business-to-business interactions and information exchange.

Today's business applications were designed primarily for use within the enterprise. However, with the growth of the Internet as a medium for inter-enterprise business communications, the technologies that have been employed to integrate business applications within the enterprise have proven largely unsuccessful when extended beyond the boundaries of the enterprise's corporate network infrastructure.

ebXML is a set of specifications that together enable a modular electronic business framework. ebXML enables a global electronic marketplace where enterprises of any size and in any geographical location can meet and conduct business with each other through the exchange of XML-based messages. ebXML is jointly sponsored by the United Nations (UN/CEFACT) and the Organization for Structured Information Standards (OASIS). The goal of ebXML is to facilitate open trade between organizations regardless of size by enabling XML to be used in a consistent manner to exchange electronic business data.

Industry observers wondered why developers would have to follow two competing standards. Now, integrated SOAP and ebXML messaging services promise an open, global infrastructure to advance B2B.

The book provides business people with a highly readable explanation of Electronic Business XML (ebXML), a new specification recognized worldwide for connecting companies and exchanging messages and services. The ebXML specification shows companies of any size, including government and not-for-profit organizations, how to establish business processes, locate trading partners, exchange messages, translate among terminology used in different industries, and integrate the transactions with their current data-exchange protocols. The book gives an overview of ebXML for top executives and a more detailed discussion for analysts and implementers.

ebXML is an international standard for enterprises to conduct business through the exchange of XML-based messages. It is a modular suite of standards to enable enterprises to conduct business over the Internet including exchange of business messages, conduct of trading relationships, communication of data in common terms and a method for the definition and registration of business processes.

Standards bodies, industry groups, vendors and users from around the world are integrating ebXML into their own implementations and products and voicing their support for ebXML.

How does ebXML fit with the work of other industry standards groups? This panel will feature representatives from the Object Management Group (OMG), HR-XML, the Human Resources XML Consortium, the Open Travel Alliance, a DISA organization, and the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG). Each will provide information about how the work of their group relates to ebXML and their plans for the future.

The vision of ebXML is to create a single global electronic marketplace where enterprises of any size and in any geographical location can meet and conduct business with each other through the exchange of XML based messages. ebXML enables anyone, anywhere, to do business with anyone else over the internet.