Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay XML Standardization for Business Applications Dr. Vasudev Kamath Persistent Systems

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay Outline of Talk Various XML-based standards relating to business integration An overview of the standards Comparative evaluation and positioning in the information chain Some of the standards covered are: –RosettaNet –CommerceNet –ebXML from OASIS –CommerceOne –BizTalk –PeBS

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay RosettaNet Independent, self-funded consortium of global members of IT Supply Chain, –HP, Compaq, Fedex, GE Information Services, Oracle, SAP AG, Toshiba Information Systems, Cisco, etc Defines B2B process standards as well as B2B data standards RosettaNet standards –Business and Technical Dictionaries –RosettaNet Implementation Framework –RosettaNet Partner Interface Processes

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay RosettaNet (Contd.) RosettaNet Business Dictionaries –Definitions of Business Properties and Business Data Entities RosettaNet Implementation Framework –Open, common network-application integration framework for easy adoption of processes Application message formats Message exchange sequences RosettaNet Partner Interface Process –an XML specification designed to provide common business/data models and documents enabling system developers to implement RosettaNet eBusiness interfaces

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay RosettaNet (Contd.) XML DTDs arranged in clusters relating to –Partner, Product and Service Review Maintain account –Product Management Query product information –Order Management Manage purchase order –Marketing Information Management Distribute product list

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay CommerceNet Open, internet-based infrastructure for e- commerce, whose members include leading banks, telcos, vans, ISPs, software services companies, major end-users worldwide Works on top of existing standards Aims to function as a market maker, generating communities of buyers & sellers Defines a conceptual framework for inter- operability between different entities in supply chain

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay CommerceNet (Contd.) 7-layer architecture –NETWORKS contain MARKETS where BUSINESSES provide and use SERVICES which conduct INTERACTIONS which exchange DOCUMENTS containing INFORMATION ITEMS Registries at various levels –Market registry –Business registry –Service registry Registry schemas are built on XML-based data elements

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay CommerceNet (Contd.) Published interface to each layer and registry Query to each published interface answered in the form of an XML document pre- formatted according to pre-defined DTD

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay ebXML From OASIS ebXML, initiative of the UN CEFACT and OASIS, will provide technical infrastructure for Global Commerce Internet Protocol, –(set of recommendations governing management of data for Internet communication and other B2B interactions) A project with consumer products industry involved creation of business models, global data dictionaries, and XML schemas Nearly ready for launch (Nov 2000)

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay ebXML Technical Architecture Layered architecture –Repository items contain info about Data elements –Next layer recognizes business processes –Discovery of partner requirement System of registries and distributed repositories Repositories can contain –Core components, or –Syntax describing business processes XML elements in document instances contain pointers to repository items, which are metadata

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay CommerceOne Leader in e-commerce solutions Provides XML-based standardization at business document exchange level Defined standards for documents such as –Purchase order –Invoice –Price Catalog –Availability Check Request

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay CommerceOne CBL Commerce One CBL 2.0 –set of XML building blocks –a document framework that allows the creation of robust, reusable, XML documents for electronic commerce businesses everywhere can conduct e- commerce by seamlessly exchanging business documents of different types CBL 2.0 provides transition path from EDI to XML-based commerce capability

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay CommerceOne CBL (Contd.) CBL 2.0: first XML specification for electronic commerce designed to take advantage of the expressive power of XML schemas Commerce One has released CBL in 3 different schema languages –Microsoft's XML Data Reduced (XDR) –the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) XML Schema Definition Language (XSDL), and – Commerce One's Schema for Object-oriented XML (SOX)

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay BizTalk Goal of driving rapid, consistent adoption of XML to enable e-commerce and application integration BizTalk Framework: –Specs for design and development of XML-based messaging solutions for communication between applications –Builds upon standards such as HTTP, MIME, XML and SOAP BizTalk does not address all aspects of B2B e-commerce

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay BizTalk (Contd.) BizTalk Framework 2 influenced by following standards –SOAP 1.1 (is actually extension of it) –XML schema (part1: structures) –XML schema (part 2: data types) –XML-signature syntax and processing A BizTalk document contains –An application-specific business document –BizTalk-specific and SOAP header entries,using BizTags BizTags defined in standard BizTag namespaces

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay PeBS Creating XML-based standards for business documents for PeBS solution Pushing to enhance these as Indian standards for business documents taking into account Indian business practices

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay Issues XML-based standardization for documents in businesses is catching on Standardization occurring at various levels in the supply chain Standardization is using XML at various levels, not just the business document exchange XML-based standardization works well in heterogeneous environments of channel partners Need to popularize XML in user community in India, not just CS people

Sep 30, 2000XML Workshop Talk, IIT Bombay For further information…. RosettaNet – CommerceNet – CommerceOne – BizTalk – PeBS –