Report from the Danish UBL sub committee

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Report from the Danish UBL sub committee

• UBL TC Manhattan, January 23 2006
• Peter L. Borresen, IT architect, Danish IT and
  Telecom agency

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Danish UBL activities autumn 2005

• OIO e-faktura
• eBusiness Framework
• UBL activities
• International alliance activities

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OIO e-faktura

• Won the eEurope Transformation Award 2005
• 1.2 Million invoices exchanged every month
• 1 year anniversary 1th of February
• Running like any other eBusiness service (quote
  Mach)
• Private companies start requiring electronic
  invoices expressed as OIO e-faktura

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The exchange of documents with OIO e-faktura
Scanned
Native xml
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Approvements of OIO e-faktura

• Schematron validation done according to the
  legislation.
• Utility suppliers starts sending invoices with
  extended content by end of March
• Guideline for attachment to invoices for
  buildings has been developed.

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eBusiness framework, questions

• How do we engage small companies and private
  persons to send native xml documents?
• What is the best architecture for exchanging
  document in the Danish public sector?
• How do we deploy this architecture to the most
  common used eBusiness software?

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eBuisiness Framework, answers

• A public free-of-charge end point repository is
  needed (could be based on UDDI)
• Tools for sending and receiving documents must be
  provided.
• A library for incorporating this into the vendors
  software must be provided.
• VANS will still be important but with more focus
  on Value Added

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UBL activities

• Catalogue workshop, national and international
  has been held
• Proposal for five catalogue messages has been
  submitted to UBL
• Workshop on UBL 2.0 has been held.
• Procurement scenario from the Danish public
  sector has been described.

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International alliance activities

• British-Danish understanding on making UBL ready
  to use
• Early focus on cross border pilot.
• Work on making a Nordic/UK profile with weekly
  meetings
• Work on getting IDABC back to the procurement
  process
• Collaboration with the Nordic bank association
• The adoption of UBL in UN/CEFACT is a key to many
  doors on this road.

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Requirements from the Nordic/UK profile group

• UBL is not an academic exercise, but a real life
  project
• We need interoperability not a way to build
  UBL-islands
• We need managed extension incorporated in UBL
• We need concepts of how to do subsets and
  customisation.
• We want usage guidelines for UBL.