Klaus' Korner

Lately when talking with colleagues over lunch, sooner or later we end up on the same topic – What ever happened to the promised simplification within eBusiness Standards? It is rather interesting that this question is not going away, it’s a constant repeating Déjà vu discussion. Therefore, I decided to use my blog to post a few articles that summarize what I have seen happened over the last 25 years…

In my last post, Business Semantic Interoperability – Part 3, I mentioned before that the preliminary work was almost completed to get the LinguMatic project off the ground. I now have enough content added to the two systems to move forward announcing publicly the availability of the demo systems. It will help me in finding out if there is an interest in making this an Open-Source project.

A quick update on my progress in regard to the work on LinguMatic. To recap, the LinguMatic project is my effort to create an “open-source” Business Semantic Thesaurus (BST) to address the interoperability issues between eBiz interchange standards (e.g. UN/EDIFACT, UNTDED/ISO7372 and Core Component Library (CCL) and ERP backends (in-house databases).

In part 1 I talked about the technical solutions that are all about interoperability at the interchange level, more precise, at the message standards level.  Sadly, message developers in different standards organizations, such as OASIS (UBL), OAG, GS1 (formally EAN-UCC), SWIFT, UN/CEFACT and ASC X12 , missed the golden opportunity in creating a single standardized core component library (CCL), such as the UN/CEFACT CCL, for globally and cross-sectorial use. Instead…

The latest buzz phrase in the technology world is Interoperability, everyone wants it! The one of special interest to me is business semantic interoperability (BSI). Over the last 20 years lots of resources have been spend on a number of BSI solutions, mostly at the technical layer. Sadly the results have not achieve what was envisioned, nor were the real world interoperability problem ever addressed.