From EDI to UN/CEFACT: An Evolutionary Path Towards a Next Generation e-Business Framework

Modern e-Business frameworks have evolved from traditional EDI technology. The evolutionary development towards current e-Business stacks like RosettaNet led to an increased degree of integration and operational efficiency. Nevertheless, significant shortcomings still exist. Especially on the semantic level of data and process engineering further improvements are expected to harmonize the diversity and redundancy of existing e-Business stacks. UN/CEFACT's standardization efforts are a promising solution towards next generation e-Business frameworks. The authors intend to provide a picture of the future of e-Commerce by evaluating three cornerstones of e-Business standard evolution: EDI, RosettaNet and a novel combination of specifications issued by UN/CEFACT.

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