iWay Supports 20 e-Business Initiatives
EAI Opportunities of the Highest Standard
By Ralph Stout and Moshe Silverstein
Integration standards have always held out great promise, but until recently standards-based enterprise computing presented formidable economic barriers. That’s changing now thanks to economically viable, Internet-based e-business standards. iWay Software currently supports 20 of these key e-business
initiatives, including:
ACORD (www.acord.com) – The Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development facilitates standards for insurance and related financial services industries.
AIAG (www.AIAG.org) – The Automotive Industry Action Group is a global organization founded by carmakers for improving business processes with trading partners throughout the automotive supply chain.
ASC X12 (www.x12.org) – This standards body oversees electronic data exchange standards based on X12 EDI, XML, and UN/EDIFACT formats.
DISA (www.DISA.org) – The Data Interchange Standards Association focuses on the development of cross-industry electronic business interchange standards.
Drummond Group Inc. (www.drummondgroup.com) – DGI conducts interoperability and conformance testing for standards in a variety of vertical industries.
eBusinessReady (www.ebusinessready.org) – eBusinessReady provides an industry-neutral testing program to evaluate eBusiness software in supply-chain and distribution channels.
ebXML (www.ebxml.org) – The Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML) is an XML vernacular sponsored by UN/CEFACT and OASIS. Its modular suite of specifications enables enterprises anywhere in the world to conduct business over
the Internet.
HL7 (www.hl7.org) – Health Level Seven (7) produces standards for exchanging, managing, and integrating healthcare data.
IETF (www.ietf.org) – The Internet Engineering Task Force is an international community of technologists guiding the Internet’s evolution.
JCP (www.jcp.org) – The Java Community Process is an organization of international Java™ developers and licensees that develop and revise Java technology specifications.
OAGIS (www.openapplications.org) – The Open Applications Group Interface Specification (OAGIS), from the Open Applications Group, is a widely accepted supply-chain standard for passing data in and out of applications in an XML
format.
OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) – The Organization for Structured Information Standards, an international consortium, is the main force behind XML specifications.
OMG (www.omg.org) – The Object Management Group produces specifications for interoperable enterprise applications. Its flagship specifications are the multi-platform Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and the CORBA middleware platform.
SWIFT (www.swift.com) – The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) provides secure messaging services and interface software for financial institutions throughout the world.
UCCnet (www.uccnet.org) – The Uniform Code Council’s UCCnet item-identification standard facilitates collaborative relationships through electronic trading within the manufacturing supply-chain.
UDDI (www.uddi.org) – Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) is a protocol for companies and applications to quickly and dynamically find Web services over the Internet.
UN/CEFACT (www.unece.org/cefact) – The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business facilitates global business processes through its international EDI standard and other protocols.
WEDISNIP (www.wedi.org) – Workgroup Electronic Data Interchange/Strategic National Implementation Process is a key coordinator of implementation of the healthcare industry’s HIPAA standards. SNIP represents the process of collaboratively
developing and implementing industry-wide healthcare standards.
WS-I (www.ws-i.org) – The Web Services Interoperability Organization promotes Web services interoperability across platforms, applications, and programming languages.
XML.ORG (www.XML.org) – Created by OASIS, XML.org is a Web portal for technical XML information.
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