UN/CEFACT and OASIS Meeting Showcases ebXML for Healthcare and B2B

[Karl Best <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

UN/CEFACT and OASIS Meeting Showcases ebXML for Healthcare and B2B

BEA Systems, Bind Systems, Bowstreet, bTrade.com, Care Data Systems,
Commerce One, Contivo, Covisint, Cyclone Commerce, Data Access, Fujitsu,
General Electric, IBM, IONA, Intalio, IPNet, Mega,
NTT Communications, Samsung, Schemantix, Sterling Commerce, Sun
Microsystems, Sybase, Tibco, Viquity, VISA International, webMethods and XML
Global Team with Automotive Industry Action Group, Health Level Seven, Open
Applications Group, RosettaNet, SWIFT and EDI X12 to Demonstrate Working
Models of Open Information Exchange with ebXML

Boston, MA, USA and Geneva, Switzerland; 8 May 2001 --The final meeting of
the 18-month ebXML initiative, sponsored by UN/CEFACT and OASIS, will
feature the most extensive ebXML proof-of-concept yet demonstrated and the
first to showcase ebXML’s security specification. In Vienna on 9 May 2001,
international standards groups, Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG),
Health Level Seven (HL7), Open Applications Group (OAG), RosettaNet, SWIFT
and EDI X12, will team with 28 vendors from around the world to implement
the ebXML specifications and demonstrate how ebXML can be used to meet the
needs of electronic business today. The demonstration will be part of a
week-long ebXML meeting, during which participants are expected to ratify
the ebXML specifications and begin the next phase of continued development,
implementation and maintenance.

“For more than a year, software providers and industry groups have put ebXML
to the test, implementing the specifications as they were being developed,”
noted Klaus-Dieter Naujok of IONA, Chair of ebXML and member of the
UN/CEFACT Steering Committee. “Because of these efforts, we are able to
deliver ebXML specifications with confidence in their stability and with the
support of the industry at-large.”

In Vienna, BEA Systems, Bind Systems, Bowstreet, bTrade.com, Care Data
Systems, Commerce One, Contivo, Covisint, Cyclone Commerce, Data Access,
Fujitsu, General Electric, IBM, IONA, Intalio, IPNet, Mega, NTT
Communications, Samsung, Schemantix, Sterling Commerce, Sun Microsystems,
Sybase, Tibco, Viquity, VISA International, webMethods and XML Global will
demonstrate ebXML at work in healthcare and B2B. Two end-to-end tracks will
use actual payloads and scenarios from AIAG, HL7, OAG, RosettaNet, SWIFT and
X12.

ebXML in Healthcare
The healthcare track of the POC will use HL7 messages and documents as
payloads within ebXML transport and routing envelopes. The demo scenario
will begin with a patient visit to a physician’s office. The office will
send a registration message pre-admitting the patient to a hospital for
testing. At the hospital, the patient will be examined and lab work will be
ordered, the order being transmitted via ebXML to a remote lab. The record
of the original patient encounter in the physician’s office, plus the
registration message, lab order and lab results will be sent to two clinical
information portals where the virtual patient record can be collected and
accessed.

ebXML in B2B
The ebXML POC electronic business track simulates a complete end-to-end B2B
transaction, using messages from RosettaNet, OAG, EDI X12, SWIFT and ebXML
Core Components. ebXML vendors play the roles of buyer, supplier, registry,
marketplace, credit authorization agency and financial institution. The
scenario begins with the buyer discovering the seller through the ebXML
registry. It then highlights a seller catalogue update through the
e-marketplace, followed by the buyer’s purchase order request. A request for
credit is sent by the e-marketplace to the authorization agency, which
responds with an invoice. Following an advance shipment notification, the
credit agency transmits messages to the banks of both the buyer and the
seller to reflect the completion of the end-to-end business scenario.

"The ability of these 28 vendors to demonstrate ebXML on this scale is a
remarkable achievement,” observed Sid Askary of Intalio, ebXML Proof Of
Concept Project Team Leader. "Execution of these complex business and
healthcare scenarios and interoperability among so many early adopters is a
sign of success for ebXML."

About ebXML
ebXML (www.ebXML.org) is an International Initiative established by
UN/CEFACT and OASIS in late 1999 with a mandate to undertake an 18-month
program of work to research and identify the technical basis upon which the
global implementation of XML (Extensible Markup Language) can be
standardized. The goal of ebXML is to facilitate open trade between
organizations regardless of size by enabling XML to be used in a consistent
manner to exchange electronic business data.

About UN/CEFACT
UN/CEFACT (www.uncefact.org) is the United Nations body whose mandate covers
worldwide policy and technical development in the area of trade facilitation
and electronic business. Headquartered in Geneva, it has developed and
promoted many tools for the facilitation of global business processes
including UN/EDIFACT, the international EDI standard. Its current work
programme includes such topics as Simpl-edi and Object Oriented EDI and it
strongly supports the development and implementation of open, interoperable
global standards and specifications for electronic business.

About OASIS
OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) is the international, not-for-profit
consortium that advances electronic business by promoting open,
collaborative development of interoperability specifications. OASIS sponsors
include Accenture, Access360, Adobe Systems, AND Data Solutions, Arbortext,
Auto-trol, Aventail, Baltimore Technologies, B-Bop Associates, BEA Systems,
Bentley Systems, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Bowstreet, Business Logic
Corporation, Chrystal Software, Cincom Systems, Cohesia, Commerce One,
Critical Path, CrossLogix, DataChannel, Dataloom, Deutsche Post AG,
Documentum, EADS Airbus, election.com, empolis, Engage, Enigma, Excelergy,
eXcelon, Extricity Software, First Call Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, IBM,
Informix, Infoteria, Innodata, Intel, Interwoven, IPNet Solutions, ITEDO
Software, Ivis Group, Jamcracker, Logistics Management Institute, Mediaplex,
Mercator Software, Microsoft, Netegrity, NetFish Technologies, Netscape/AOL,
NextPage, NII Enterprise Promotion Association, Nimble Technology, NIST,
Novell, ObjectSpace, Oblix, OpenNetwork Technologies, Pearson Education,
Planet 7 Technologies, Popkin Software, Reuters Limited, SAA Consultants,
Sabre, SAP, SeeBeyond, Sequoia Software, Silverstream Software, SoftQuad
Software, Software AG, Sterling Commerce, StreamServe, Sun Microsystems,
Synth-Bank, Tata Consultancy Services, The Tamalpais Group, Thomas
Technology Solution, Tibco, US Defense Information Systems Agency, Virtual
Access Networks, Visa International, Wavo, webMethods, Whitehill
Technologies, Xerox, XML Global, XMLSolutions and Xyvision Enterprise
Solutions.


For more information:
Carol Geyer
Director of Communications
OASIS
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org