What is the business need for creating ebXML?
Up until now, the technology available for most businesses to exchange data was electronic data interchange or EDI, which made significant contributions to productivity and inventory control. Many companies, however, find EDI expensive and difficult to implement. ebXML, using the economies of scale presented by the Internet, breaks through these obstacles.The conventions established by ebXML are available publicly. These conventions encourage software developers to build packaged applications based on the common structure and syntax of ebXML messages and dramatically lower the cost of exchanging business data.
Up until now, the technology available for most businesses to exchange data was electronic data interchange or EDI, which made significant contributions to productivity and inventory control. Many companies, however, find EDI expensive and difficult to implement. ebXML, using the economies of scale presented by the Internet, breaks through these obstacles. The conventions established by ebXML are available publicly. These conventions encourage software developers to build packaged applications based on the common structure and syntax of ebXML messages and dramatically lower the cost of exchanging business data.
