CURTIN
University of Technology
Department School of Computing
Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science
Unit: Computer Science Project 552
Second Semester 2001
Project Supervisor: Dr. John Bui (buihh@cs.curtin.edu.au)
Project Student: Sacha Schlegel 1
Student ID: 12253634
E-Mail: sacha@schlegel.li
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Electronic business (exchange of business documents) in the area of inter-enterprise business is the next step in total electronic business. Dedicated business software systems are available in the areas of Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Electronic Procurement and Supply-Chain Management. The next step is to link the enterprise oriented software systems to a global electronic marketplace. ebXML stands for electronic business XML (eXtensible Markup Language. ebXML is a new specification worked out by OASIS and UN/CEFACT. ebXML provides a framework for a global electronic marketplace. The purpose of the study is to understand the publicly available ebXML specifications with particular interests in business processes and messaging. XML is used to define data structures. ebXML provides a promising new specification which is based on inter-enterprise business collaborations. Experiences from EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) helped in the process of the specification of the ebXML specification. The success of ebXML will be based on the prompt creation of re-usable components (defined common business processes, core components, business documents etc) stored at an ebXML Registry/Repository. Further ebXML has to be integrated in electronic business software systems. To allow Small to Medium Enterprises (SME) to participate in the global electronic marketplace . Free software / open source ebXML solutions can help the Small to Medium Enterprises (SME) to participate in the global electronic marketplace.