Electronic exchanges

The electronic exchanges are various forms. They may concern :

• data
  • structured data
    • conformant to an international standard such as EDIFACT, ANSI X12
    • conformant to a sectorial standard (EAN, SWIFT...)
    • or just conformant to a private format defined by a dominating actor in a given sector
  • non structured data
    • non computer readable and requiring human interpretation.
  • these data can be also represented and transmitted in XML
• applets able to execute treatments on the receiving computers
• a combination of both allowing to create for example virtual spaces for interactive definition and tuning of shared prototypes, or more simply electronic forms with local hand typing controls.

The data are also of various natures :

• business data (order, invoice...)
• declarative data (recruiting declaration, statistical data, medical file...)
• technical data (plans, images, films, sounds...)
• data for remote piloting of machines and robots,
• ...

These exchanges can intervene between

• individuals (electronic mail for example),
• individual and company or administration (for example electronic commerce on a web site with a market place, or data acquisition thru an electronic form for an automatic treatment on an administration computer),
• company and administration (for example traditional EDI between a car plant and a supplier for an automatic supply chain order).

These exchanges can also be

• isolated and autonomous, for example data consultation on a web site
• or dependent from/to each other like
  • a purchase order on a web site with
    • product selection on  a catalogue
    • placing order
    • electronic payment
    • reception of a dispatch advice;
  • or a traditional edi transaction
    • sending of an order to a supplier
    • order response for an acceptance or modification
    • sending of an invoice to the customer
    • payment order of the supplier by the customer at his bank
    • payment advice between client and supplier banks
    • payment advice sent to the supplier

In the case of dependent exchanges, the modeling of these exchanges is done by means of scenarios :

• in the present time these scenarios remain hard to formalise and hardly reusable
• with XML and ebXML standardisation, the required goal is to be able to describe these scenarios, to record them and treat them most automatically possible by means of standard software,
• this approach applies the logic of open-edi,
• the web services, simpler to use than "mechanics" ebXML, develops more and more.

French and international reference sites

• french :
  • EDIFRANCE
  • Insurance sector, a french site is the world reference : assurweb.com
• international :
  • UN CEFACT
  • Join technical committee ISO IEC JTC1
  • International standardisation organisation ISO
  • XML W3C XML
  • Standardisation of XML exchanges ebXML

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