UNCEFACT TMG Report

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UN/CEFACT TMG Report

• Chair Gunther Stuhec
• Vice Chair Christian Huemer

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TMG Mandate

• Purpose
• The purpose of the Techniques Methodologies
  Group (TMG) is to provide all UN/CEFACT Groups
  with Meta (base) Business Process, Information
  and Communications Technology specifications,
  methodologies, recommendations and education.
• The TMG shall also function as a research group
  evaluating new information and communication
  technologies (ICT), as well as, techniques and
  methodologies that may assist UN/CEFACT and its
  groups to fulfill their mandate and vision in
  Trade Facilitation and e-Business.

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Why TMG?

• Provides the required key methodologies that are
  necessary for
• Highly dynamic and context driven next generation
  B2B
• Common and unambiguous understanding on semantic
  level
• Collaborative business processes that considers
  the aspects of contracts / agreements
• Highly reusable and flexible building blocks of
  business information
• These methodologies are
• comparable with a natural language
• a must for doing collaborative business
  effectively,
• the key differentiatior to all other existing
  business standards
• highly required to realize next generation
  eBusiness environment (ESOA)
• The TMG has experience since more than 10 years
• Understands the current problematic in detail
• Have concepts and solutions
• Significant value add for UN/CEFACT
• Enables UN/CEFACT to drive future B2B

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General Infos

• Members
• 35 Active Members
• 200 Mailing list registrants who participate
  electronically
• Meetings
• Convened during the UN/CEFACT Forum meetings in
  New Delhi and Dublin.
• Face-to-face meetings
• June 2006 at SWIFT headquarters in Brussels
• December 2006 at Oracle in Redwood City,
  California
• Next in July 2007 in Kansas City

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Working Groups

• Business Process Working Group (BPWG)
• Provides techniques and methodologies for the
  description of inter-organizational business
  processes and the resulting information exchanges
• 15 Active Members (5 also in CCWG and 3 in
  eBAWG)
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• Core Components Working Group (CCWG)
• Provides required techniques and methodologies
  for the development and reuse of business
  information
• 20 Active Members (5 also in BPWG and 7 in
  eBAWG)
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• eBusiness Architecture Working Group (EBAWG)
• Provides the framework for the different modeling
  and infrastructure concepts
• 10 Active Members (3 also in BPWG and 7 in
  CCWG)
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Scope of BPWG
How to formalize contract paragraphs?
What are the agreed process steps?
What are the core process steps that considers
the smallest legal aspects?
How must the economic events linked together that
they are fulfill the contract?
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BPWG Projects

• UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (UMM)
• First technical specification was released in
  December 2006
• A new project for the next version was started in
  March 2007
• New UMM concepts will be based on UML 2.0
  profiles
• Resources-Events-Agents Economic Ontology (REA)
  Specialization Module
• REA describes an enterprise ontology, which
  explains the types of entities or classes that
  are expected to see in a specific business
  process
• Approved requirements specification (ODP Step 2)

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BPWG Projects

• UML Profile for Core Components (UPCC)
• Was formerly Business Collaboration Specification
  Schema (BCSS)
• Transferred to Core Components Working Group
  (CCWG)
• At ODP step 6, Implementation Verification
• Supports both UML versions 1.4 and 2.0
• Business Process Schema Specification (BPSS)
• The OASIS BPSS version 2.4 will be submitted to
  ISOs TC 154 for approval
• TMG recommends supporting this submission of
  OASIS BPSS to ISO
• If OASIS starts next version, TMG will provide
  business process experts for reaching the
  consistency between BPSS and UMM
• Unified Business Agreements and Contracts (UBAC)
• No resources and time to proceed
• TMG transferred UBAC to Legal Group (LG)
• TMG will assist the LG

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Scope of CCWG
How to associate?
How to name?
How to structure?
How to structure a message?
How to assemble data types in a message?
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CCWG Projects

• Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS)
• Progressed CCTS V3.0 to second public review in
  ODP Step 5
• Removes ambiguities, strengthens reuse,
  modularizes standards stack (i.e. removal of
  registry rules)
• Fixed content (data types, CCTS V3.0 does not
  consider any content anymore.
• All CCTs (Core Components Types) in CCTS V2.01
  are moved to ATG (Applied Technologies Group)
• Target is to reach ODP7 approved technical
  specification by end of 2007

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CCWG Projects

• Core Component Message Assembly (CCMA)
• Began with ODP step 3
• An initial draft is underway
• CCMA specification will bridge the current gap
  between UMM and CCTS
• Meta model allows an easy and consistent mapping
  into technical protocols such as WSDL (Web
  Services Definition Language)
• Unified Context Methodology (UCM)
• Expanded ODP 2 phase
• This was required at the request of many major
  contributors
• Significant interest is being realized in this
  project

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EBAWG Scope
Business Context
UCM
Motivation (why), Organization (who)
UMM
Collaborative (external) Business Process (how,
when)
UMM
Business Information (what)
Business Message Assembly (what)
Internal Process
Internal Process
CCTS
CCMA
UMM
CCTS CCMA
UML/XMI- Presentation
BCSS
UPCC
Translation Mapping
XMI? BPEL
XMI ? XMLNDR
XMI? BPSS
XMI ? EDIFACT

Physical Representation
WS-BPEL
XMLNDR
EDIFACT
BPSS
UNeDocs
Frameworks
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EBAWG Projects

• Electronic Business Architecture Specification
  (EBAS)
• EBAS will describe the relationships between all
  defined UN/CEFACT technical specifications, and
  non UN/CEFACT specifications
• Finalized project proposal
• The goal for 2007 is complete ODP Step 3
• Conformance and Compliance Definition (COD)
• Develop a clear and unambiguous definition of
  compliance/conformance rules for each of the
  UN/CEFACT specifications
• Newly established in March 2007
• Phased at direction of FMG
• The goal for 2007 is complete phase 1 and
  commence phase 2
• Glossary project
• Create a centralized, common UN/CEFACT Glossary
• Ongoing project that will interface with all
  other methodology projects in the forum
• First draft available at the TMG website

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New Website(Prototype)

• Enterprise Wiki approach
• Every registered user can
• read, update and generate wepages
• write news and submit comments
• upload/download attachments
• Makes the daily standardization work more
  efficient and effective
• Guarantees a consistent and clear representation
  of required information
• Should be used for all UN/CEFACT standardization
  work

Online Template / Edit Mode
Presentation Mode
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Requirements

• Server of new TMG website
• Administrator of TMG website
• Somebody who helps us on marketing
• Better control on mailing lists
• Formal invitations for prospective members

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We need Members

• Were not finished
• We have the concepts and ideas, but members are
  still required to
• Finalize the whole stack
• Distribute our methodologies
• Do trainings