Implementing Standards to Achieve Reliable Transacting

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AIAG, CIDX, RosettaNet, OASIS, SAP
Implementing Standards to Achieve Reliable
Transacting
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THE STUMBLING BLOCKSTHAT PREVENT RELIABLE SYSTEMS

• Transport Layer capabilities
• Technology choices
• Lack of RM features
• Security
• Application Layer Incompatibilities
• No common XML vocabularies
• Description of business semantics
• Business Process Layer
• New technologies
• Role of modeling approaches

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SUMMARY

• Many factors limit reliability across the
  communications stack
• Transport layer reliability is only one part of
  the problem
• Discuss reliability issues BEYOND the pure
  technology limitations
• Goal Understand what major factors influence the
  overall quality of a complex B2B communications
  system

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REAL EXPERIENCE

• Fred Falten, Director of Application Architecture
  and Integration at GM, representing AIAG
• Patrick Gannon, President and CEO of OASIS
• Ken Hutcheson, CIDX Chem eStandards Director
• Paul Tearnen, VP Standards Management, RosettaNet

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TRANSPORT LAYER

• Transport layer what is the state of affairs ?
• Need for convergence ?
• What are the options ?
• Roadmap/process to find a common solution
• Are Web Services ready ?
• Multiple RM specifications
• Composability ?
• Missing functional areas (Security, )
• Manageability

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APPLICATION LAYER

• How to convey business semantics
• A common XML vocabulary Science Fiction ?
• Importance of cross-industry XML building blocks
• What organization drives Core Components ?
• Message construction rules

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BUSINESS PROCESS LAYER

• Why a business layer ?
• Discuss BPM technologies such as BPEL
• Importance of modeling approaches

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THE ROLE OF OASIS

• Industry verticals
• Industry consortia
• Consensus builders
• De jure standards organizations

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• Q A

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• THANK YOU !

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