Besides the overwhelming amount of articles and blog postings about the pros and cons on the iPad, the failure of loading the Flash element during Steve Jobs’ demo of the NYT website may have resulted in another war -- Flash verses HTML 5.
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Tags: Adobe, Internet, Multi Media, Open Standards, Web Design

I was made aware that CEFACT is currently reassessing stakeholder needs and priorities to ensure that its work is addressing the most urgent requirements. On the surface this looks like a great idea, however ...
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Tags: eBusiness, Government, Trade, CEFACT

Can Information Exchange Standards Meet eBusiness Needs?

For years eBusiness information exchange standards and specifications, utilizing the latest thinking and technology, have been released with the promise that this latest solution can easily be implemented throughout the global business community.
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Tags: eBusiness

… we would only have one Office format standard, one EDI standard, one paper format standard, etc.
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Tags: Microsoft, Sun, IBM

In Part 1 I concluded that by the early ‘90th UN/EDIFACT (as well as X12) had become too complex to be implemented by the average user (small and medium sized companies/organizations) because of user induced complexity thanks to the flexibility built into the standard by the users. Read More...

Tags: CEFACT

Before getting deeper into the topic let me clarify what I understand when talking about Simplification. It is the act of reducing complexity.
Simplification can be applied everywhere these days. Read More...

Tags: CEFACT

In my last postings I asked the questions “where are the Simple eBusiness solutions?” and “if it works, why change?” I will ask now “what would it take to develop a eBusiness solution for SMEs to engage in the automated exchange of electronic data?”
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Tags: eBusiness, EDI

Yesterday I made the point that today’s eBusiness standards/specification are way to complex for the implementers and that most standards/specification creators are assuming that small and medium-sized companies/businesses don’t care what is under the hood as long as it is simple the way their current fax works.
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Tags: eBusiness, eGovernment

Lately I see more and more eBusiness standards/specifications being release with the promise that the new solution can be easily implemented by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). To me this is a clear indication that those responsible for the new specification are clueless about what the SMEs needs really are.
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Tags: eBusiness, EDI

The question left unanswered in my last posting was “Does XML have the advantage over EDI to open up eCommerce to small and medium-size businesses?”; There is no question that XML has changed the eBusiness world.
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Tags: eCommerce, EDI, XML, eBusiness

In 1998 there were various moves towards XML as an EDI replacement. Towards the end of that year UN/EDIFACT users demanded that UNECE (CEFACT) created an XML solution in order to protect is investment and leading role as the standards setter in electronic information exchange.
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Tags: XML, EDI, eBusiness

In the past I have posted a number of articles that mention Open Standards. Reading other Blogs and news articles about standards, what they are and what is expected of them, it is clear to me that there is a lot of confusion.
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Tags: Open Standards

This posting outlines the efforts by UNECE in defining the next generation of EDI. The benefit to the reader will not only be an inside to story but more important it will provide an understanding why UN/CEFACT is where it is today. Further, it will help in putting WP.4/CEFACT’s work in perspective to other efforts underway.
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Tags: EDI, Open-edi, CEFACT

Today marks the 5-year anniversary of ebXML’s final meeting in Vienna Austria that concluded with what everyone called a successful 18-month initiative.
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Tags: ebXML