DataChannel will join the United Nations Center for the Facilitation of Procedures and Practices for Administration, Commerce and Transport (CEFACT) and the OASIS consortium in its support of the Electronic Business XML (ebXML) initiative.
EbXML is an open, vendor-neutral initiative with the goal of establishing
a common, cross-industry technical and semantic framework worldwide. This
framework will enable XML to be used in a consistent and uniform manner for
the exchange of all electronic business data in application-to-application,
application-to-person and person-to-application environments.
More than 50 organizations are participating in the ebXML initiative
through the OASIS consortium. Vaunted participants include IBM (IBM),
Microsoft (MSFT) and Sun Microsystems (SUNW).
The 18-month ebXML project was launched in September, and its first
meeting was held last month. When complete, the results of the ebXML Working
Group will be placed in the public domain on XML.org.
DataChannel is a privately-held company that provides
open-standards-based Internet solutions through its products, services and
partners. Its products include EIP Solutions Framework, which provides
e-business-strategy-building blocks, and DataChannel Server 4.0, an
XML-based portal server that provides a secure e-business interface that can
be personalized.
EIP Solutions Framework’s foundation is its XML backbone. This extends an established infrastructure by using XML to expose all
enterprise information, and thus enabling it to be accessed in a uniform
manner to build dynamic Web-based applications.
CEFACT is the United Nations body responsible for worldwide policy and
technical development in trade facilitation and e-business. The organization strongly supports the development and
implementation of open, interoperable global standards and specifications
for e-business.
OASIS is a nonprofit, international consortium whose sole focus is
product-independent data and content interchange. With a focus on product
interoperability, OASIS embraces a variety of structured information
standards including XML, SGML and CGM.
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