State-of-the-art in business document standards

Rethinking XML-enabled agile supply chains

“…Companies operating in the areas will have clearer motivation to employ the technologies that can directly help them to win competition over non-agile rivals. So far, much of the efforts in the initiatives have been led by consortiums of big technology companies or industry organizations without any special focus on agile supply chains (Liegl et al, 2010;Naujok & Huemer, 2008;Yan & Klein, 2007). As such, focusing on those areas that need agility first can help the XML-based initiatives take off successfully, effectively overcoming many of the barriers, such as the organizational issues and lack of shared vision in the second and third categories of Table 3.…”

“…However, it appears that the adoption of the major XML-based integration initiatives such as ebXML (Naujok & Huemer, 2008), RosettaNet (Boh, Soh, & Yeo, 2007), and Web services (Yan & Klein, 2007) has been rather slow or limited contrary to the expectations (Kanakamedala, King, & Ramsdell, 2003;Liegl, Zapletal, Pichler, & Strommer, 2010;Naujok & Huemer, 2008;Rawlins, 2006;Wilson, 2000). The implementation of them has been mostly by large organizations or their major partners, and the threshold remains still high for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) (Nurmilaakso, 2009;Power, 2008).…”

Model-Driven Business Document Evolution

“…However, whereas business partners may define their own business document formats, it is typically the case that business documents formats are defined through Standard Developing Organizations (SDOs) such as Health Level 7 (HL7) or the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitations and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT). These organizations define representative business document formats for a particular domain or industry [1].…”

Registry support for core component-based business document models

“…Given its growing popularity, XML has later become the predominant syntax to develop business document standards. In our paper [22], we provide a detailed overview of the development of delimiter-based and XML-based business document standards.…”