Title: UN/CEFACT TMG Report
1UN/CEFACT TMG Report
- Chair Gunther Stuhec
- Vice Chair Christian Huemer
2TMG 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.
3Why 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
4General 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
5Working 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) - http//www.untmg.org/index.php?optioncom_content
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6- 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) - http//www.untmg.org/index.php?optioncom_content
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7- 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) - http//www.untmg.org/index.php?optioncom_content
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8Scope of BPWG
How to formalize contract paragraphs?
UMM UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology Rules for analyze, design, and maintain collaborative business processes on semantic level. It especially consider the formal realization from contracts, and agreements to collaborative business processes.
UMM Transaction Patterns Fixed set of smallest pieces of collaborative business process transaction patterns that cover all the known legally binding collaborations at lowest level of request/response interaction between two business partners.
UMM REA Module Rules for linking economic events together that are required fulfill a contract of a collaborative business process. The links are activity-to-activity or agent-to-agent or person-to-person, not just company-to-company.
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?
9BPWG 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)
10BPWG 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
11Scope of CCWG
How to associate?
CCTS (Core Component Technical Specification) Rules for naming, structuring and reusing core components.
UCM (Universal Context Methodology) Rules for clarifying how to structure and use CCs in specific contexts, such as a Shipping Address for Germany or the US.
CCMA (Core Component Message Assembly Specification) Rules for assembling messages from CCs such as Purchase Order, Ship Notice, Invoice
How to name?
How to structure?
How to structure a message?
How to assemble data types in a message?
12CCWG 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
13CCWG 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
14EBAWG 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
15EBAWG 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
16New 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
17Requirements
- 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
18We 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