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Description
While there are many standards hat look like ebXML, ebXML is the first horizontal standard designed to address the exchange of information and adherence to inter-enterprise processes. However, in attempting to reach this lofty goal, ebXML is also a complex standard and takes some understanding before we can comprehend its value to the world of application integration and electronic business.
So, why do we need the ebXML standard? It's really a matter of leveraging the Internet to automate how we do business in real time, leveraging common processes and common information formats. The use of an electronic information standard and enabling technology drive how we do business, and the interest in standards that provide a common mechanism to do this will only push us farther along.
Thus was born ebXML, a collaboration between UN/CEFACT and OASIS. As yon can tell by the name, ebXML is built on top of XML, as well as other interact standards, including Web services, to create an infrastructure for information-based and process-based electronic businesses. This is a good standard, with growing interest from those doing B2B automation, ebXML provides just enough good technology to make it useful in the real world, without over-hyping its capabilities, thus disappointing its implementers.
What is unique about ebXML is that it's a complete standard, addressing:
* Process
* Trading partner management
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