ebXML: The New Global Standard for Doing Business on the Internet

Businesses have come to realize that information resources and technologies are key corporate assets and decisions on these matters need to be made at the highest level in an enterprise (including public sector and not-for-profit organizations). As a result, when new standards come along with the potential for expanding collaborative e-business relationships that open new opportunities, improve cash flow, and reduce costs, business people need to know about them. That is the purpose of the new book, ebXML: the New Global Standard for doing Business On the Internet. The book describes this new set of specifications not only in terms of the technology, but also in terms of their impact on the way business really work.

Most of the larger enterprises in the world have done e-business for as long as 20 years, using a technology called electronic data interchange or EDI. While these larger companies have benefited from EDI, smaller companies rarely can afford the software or the internal management EDI requires. EbXML however, takes advantage of advances in Internet technologies and the large installed base of Internet-connected systems, to encourage the development of low-priced, plug-and-play solutions that many smaller companies can afford.

The book outlines the demanding and changing business conditions that make collaborative e-business imperative for growing numbers of companies, and show how ebXML is designed to meet these conditions. It offers an executive-level overview giving the ebXML specifications in a nutshell and scenarios of how ebXML can work in practice. The book then provides fuller descriptions of ebXMLs business requirements, XML, earlier work involving XML for business data exchange, related web services specifications, and more details of the ebXML technical architecture.

ebXML: the New Global Standard for doing Business On the Internet is the first book on ebXML, and the only extended work so far, either print or electronic, written for business managers. The technical documentation provides specific guidance for systems developers, but it is the business people who make the fundamental business decisions on using technology strategically, and this book addresses those concerns.

Table of Contents

I. EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW OF EBXML.

II. EBXML BACKGROUND AND DETAILS.

III. LEARNING MORE ABOUT EBXML.

企業已經意識到信息資源和技術是關鍵的企業資產，對這些問題的決策需要在企業的最高層面上進行（包括公共部門和非營利組織）。因此，當新的標準出現時，具有擴展協作電子商務關係、開拓新機會、改善現金流和降低成本潛力的時候，商業人士需要了解這些標準。這就是新書《ebXML：互聯網上進行業務的新全球標準》的目的。該書不僅描述了這一新的技術規範，還描述了它們對業務運作方式的影響。

世界上大多數大型企業已經從事電子商務達20年之久，使用一種稱為電子數據交換（EDI）的技術。雖然這些大型公司從EDI中受益，但較小的公司很少能負擔得起EDI所需的軟件或內部管理。然而，ebXML利用互聯網技術的進步和大量已安裝的互聯網連接系統，鼓勵開發價格低廉、即插即用的解決方案，讓許多較小的公司負擔得起。

該書概述了對越來越多公司來說，協作電子商務成為迫切需求的苛刻和變化的業務環境，並展示了ebXML如何滿足這些條件。它提供了一個高層次的概述，簡要介紹了ebXML的規範以及ebXML在實踐中的工作場景。然後，該書提供了更詳細的ebXML業務需求、XML、早期涉及業務數據交換的XML工作、相關的Web服務規範以及ebXML技術架構的更多細節。

《ebXML：互聯網上進行業務的新全球標準》是關於ebXML的第一本書，也是迄今為止唯一一本針對商業經理撰寫的延伸作品，無論是印刷版還是電子版。技術文檔提供了系統開發人員的具體指導，但是商業人士在戰略上使用技術做出基本的業務決策，而這本書正是解決這些問題的。

目錄：

I. EBXML的執行概述。
1. 沒有像電子商務這樣的業務。
2. ebXML概述。
3. ebXML的應用。

II. EBXML的背景和詳細信息。
4. XML的潛力。
5. 通往ebXML的道路。