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HB 3142006

Handbook
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BizDexA national framework

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Handbook
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BizDexA national framework

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COPYRIGHT Standards Australia All rights are reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, without the written permission of the publisher. Published by Standards Australia, GPO Box 476, Sydney, NSW 2001, Australia ISBN 0 7337 7576 4

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PREFACE
This handbook was prepared by Standards Australia in consultation with the Nation Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) (now the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts), project subcontractors Red Wahoo and an industry based advisory panel. It is an historical record of the outputs of two projects conducted by the project team which developed a national e-business framework, registry and toolkit concepts, collectively known as BizDex. A working group managed by Standards Australia, consisting of representatives from the vendor, service provider, government agencies, standards and end-user communities provided strategic direction and oversight for the projects.
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These concepts were further demonstrated in a further project in which a large buyer in the wheat industry automated the grain ticket business process between its enterprise management software application (SAP) and an office management software application (Quicken) used by many of the 40,000 small businesses it trades with. It successfully demonstrated how the BizDex infrastructure could be used to connect a trading community. This document forms part of a series consisting of: HB 310BizDexA framework for registry operations. HB 311B2B registry service Detailed specification. HB 312B2B registry serviceProduct business requirements. HB 313National registry and toolkit projectFinal project outcomes report. HB 314BizDexA national framework (this Handbook). HB 315BizDexA national frameworkROI calculator user guide. HB 316Interoperability infrastructure governance requirements. HB 317Grain ticket delivery receipt POC process implementation guidelines. HB 318B2B integration toolkitBusiness requirements. HB 319BizLinkThe B2B integration toolkit technical specification. Standards Australia wishes to acknowledge the following stakeholders who have contributed to the development of the BizDex Framework through the industry based advisory panel: Australian Information Industry Association Australia Post Australian Wheat Board Boral EAN Australia Marketboomer Microsoft Quicken Australia SAP Australia Software AG Australia Sun Microsystems Australia Tradegate Australia SuperEC

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While the information contained in this Handbook is the latest at the time of printing, the BizDex Framework is constantly evolving under a changing standards landscape. It is intended that this Handbook will be updated regularly and feedback from users would be welcome to assist in improving successive editions. To receive e-mail notification of any new or updated handbooks concerning the BizDex Framework you are able to register with Standards Watch at www.standards.org.au or visit the BizDex website at www.bizdex.com.au.

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CONTENTS
Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................ 5 SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 GOALS ........................................................................................................................ 6 1.2 AUDIENCE .................................................................................................................. 6 1.3 REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE .......................................................................................... 6 SECTION 2 OVERVIEW AND HISTORY 2.1 PROJECT OVERVIEW ................................................................................................ 7 2.2 HISTORY OF E-BUSINESS FRAMEWORKS .............................................................. 7 SECTION 3 FRAMEWORK FOR SCALEABILITY 3.1 B2B STANDARDS GOVERNANCE ............................................................................. 9 3.2 TYPICAL B2B COLLABORATION USE CASE .......................................................... 10 3.3 GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE FRAMEWORK .......................................................... 10 3.4 MORE DETAILED LOOK AT THE FRAMEWORK ..................................................... 11 3.5 APPLICATION VENDORSENABLING THE END USER ........................................ 12 SECTION 4 PROJECT GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK 4.1 PROJECT GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE ................................................................. 16 4.2 PROOF OF CONCEPT.............................................................................................. 18

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Significant business productivity improvement may be achieved through the automation and integration of intercompany supply chain business processes. Large organizations and industry groups (particularly automotive and retail) have been working with electronic document interchange technologies (EDI) for many years. However, the technology has failed to scale leaving smaller industry groups and SMEs without an opportunity to realise the benefits of intercompany business process integration. XML and Web Services technologies have come some way to reducing the barriers to low cost, wide spread, adoption of intercompany business process integration. However, like EDI, without higher-level standards the promise of scaleable interoperability is lost as the number of non-interoperable web services and XML schema proliferate.
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The National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) commissioned this project to pilot an e-Business Registry and complete the design of a Connector Toolkit targeted to enable SMEs and enterprises readily, and at low cost, engage with trading partners through the use of standards based, public business processes, available on a public registry. NOIEs vision is to establish an infrastructure that will encourage and support scaleable interoperability. Fulfilment of this objective however requires substantially more than infrastructure. An overall governance framework is required to implement and support the vision and facilitate the interaction and adoption of the vision by industry groups and end point users alike. The governance framework must: Clearly articulate Australias direction with respect to the implementation of global eCommerce standards. Provide for flexibility as new standards become available. Establish documentation and methodologies for industry to adopt the standards. Provide a set of guidelines and rules against which compliance to standards may be assessed, monitored and controlled.

This document places the e-Business Registry and Connector Toolkit infrastructure development projects within the context of an overall governance framework for eCommerce within Australia. It is hoped that introduction of the need for an overall B2B eCommerce framework will initiate further discussion and initiate action to commence more detailed design.

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1.1 GOALS

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The National Office for the Information Economy has undertaken to facilitate the wide spread adoption of B2B e-Commerce in the expectation that doing so will lead to significant and measurable productivity improvement for the Australian economy.
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This document is intended to provide readers with an introduction to the NOIE SME Connector and Pilot e-Business Registry project. The document provides the reader with an overview of the issues that the project is attempting to address and a contextual framework in which the organization of project documentation deliverables may be referenced. Having read this document it is anticipated that interested readers will seek additional information and/or review more detailed project documentation, application and proof of concept deliverables presented in the project handbooks. 1.2 AUDIENCE This Handbook is aimed at readers who wish to gain a more in depth appreciation about the NOIE e-Business Registry and Connector Toolkit project, and: The overall project objectives. The issues confronting the project. The overall design approach that the project is taking to address identified issues. The structure and relationship of project deliverables.

1.3 REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE No specific B2B e-Commerce subject matter knowledge is required.

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2.1 PROJECT OVERVIEW In late 2001 NOIE engaged a wide group of Australian stakeholders (industry associations, application vendors, and standards bodies) to develop a plan for a national (Australian) infrastructure compliant with international ebXML standards. The project focused upon two key deliverables: e-Business Registry. Phase1 PilotThe first component of the NOIE initiative is to set up a pilot national public ebXML registry. Leveraging approved global reference standards, local standards bodies will assemble common business documents and processes for the publication of cross industry (horizontal) public processes on the registry. Industry bodies will in turn leverage horizontal public processes, and extend them where special requirements or divergent needs necessitate the creation of industry specific (vertical) public processes. Connector Toolkit. Phase1 DesignHaving established the pilot registry and populated it with public processes, end users must be enabled to transact with it. This project aims to complete the design of a registry connector toolkit to be embedded into vendor application software. The toolkit is a general B2B connector designed to be embedded into small business applications. The toolkit is invisible, from the perspective of the end user, and is driven by XML schema located on the registry.

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2.2 HISTORY OF E-BUSINESS FRAMEWORKS Significant business productivity improvement may be realised through the integration of information and processes. For many years, particularly in the automotive and retail sector, organizations have invested heavily in the automation and integration of cross business information interchange using EDI technologies. Although business benefit has been realised, EDI technologies have failed to scale much beyond these strong vertical communities into the broader horizontal SME community, the major reasons being: Significant effort is required between parties wishing to engage in EDI to agree appropriate messaging, security, authentication, mappings, transformations and business process choreography. As a result, EDI is expensive to set-up and maintain and so lends itself useful only to situations where high volumes and strategic relationships make it financially viable. Organizations that are able to cost justify the investment in EDI do so in the absence of a governing framework leading to a proliferation of non-interoperable EDI solutions.

XML technologies came onto the scene during the 1990s with the promise of bringing wide spread, low cost interoperable software applications to the market. The problem was that there was a rapid explosion of non-interoperable XML specifications. In addition, XML by itself does nothing to specify how messages/documents are to be sent or how business process sequences are to be defined and executed. Web services have come to the fore providing a framework for the publication, discovery and interaction of business processes across the Internet. However, like EDI, without higher-level standards the promise of scaleable interoperability is lost as the number of non-interoperable web services and XML schema proliferate. The limitations brought about by the proliferation of non-interoperable standards are well recognized by key international standards bodies (UN/CEFACT, OASIS, W3C, EAN International, UCC).
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