How is ebMS being utilized within the automotive industry?
In the automotive sector, industry groups such as AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group) and STAR (Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail) are looking to ebMS as a means for businesses to exchange messages and data directly in a safe, reliable manner over the Internet and are making recommendations to their respective memberships. In August 2004, STAR published the STAR Transport Guidelines which included ebMS Implementation Guidelines. These guidelines provided best practice recommendations for using ebMS in the upstream automotive space and a recommendation to include data compression, a feature not currently in the ebMS specification, but critical to their business needs. STAR serves as the IT standards body for the North American retail automotive industry and focuses on providing assistance to automotive dealers, manufacturers and Retail Systems Providers (RSPs) as they seek to establish a common data exchange with one another. For AIAG, ebMS is one of the core standards i
