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Subject: RE: [ebxml-dev] Discovery
That's an interesting point and is similar to what Mike Rawlins said about B2B and B2C for the example of the Peruvian sweater. I may be wrong, but I think that many (most?) of SMEs have some form of back-end software; it may be a spreadsheet or some other PC-based tool that they use to keep accounting of their activities. In the example of the peruvian sweater, if the local producer has a PC for use at work, it is likely that some software takes care (in some way) of parts of the activities. I think that one of the advantages of ebXML (both in terms of its openness and in terms of its collaborative model) is to "allow" for some software to be created (and, then, used) which will actually allow a more direct integration between the backend and the external processes. SMEs could have some software that "enforces" the ebXML collaboration and that, hopefully, will be able to integrate with the backend (even it is Excel and Eudora). Maybe this is in the "dream area"... the availability of such software would greatly depend on the use of "popular" backend packages... But I also think that automating the process even without a direct integration with the backend (i.e. having some software which enforces the collaboration and "writes on disk" some intermediate products of the collaboration) could also provide some advantage (for instance being able to filter the information, to propose them in the way they are required and to guide through the steps, especially the most tedious ones). I am not a great "fun" of "discovery", but if it could help (via some user-friendly frontend) SMEs to discover their partners and to "get the software" that would link them to the other partners "as peers" (not as an extension of a process that is managed elsewhere), it would be great! /stefano » -----Original Message----- » From: Eckenfels. Bernd [mailto:B.Eckenfels@seeburger.de] » Sent: 28 November 2001 08:07 » To: ebxml-dev » Subject: AW: [ebxml-dev] Discovery » » » Hello Scott, » » > For example, what if » > William Kammerer wanted to buy a Peruvian sweater, and his Internet » search » > found sweater that he could buy directly from a woman in Peru. » Instead of » > that woman getting 10 cents/ day to make the sweater, she is getting a » > reasonable sum of money directly from you using PayPal. » » Then he would use a Web Shop and the Browser Interface with HTML, no » need for ebXML at all. » » I generally agree that one of the aims of ebXML is to allow small » business to participate in eBusiness. But it doed not mean to integrate » business which does not have any backoffice systems. For those webedi or » web applications is just fine. » » Greetings » Bernd » » ---------------------------------------------------------------- » The ebxml-dev list is sponsored by OASIS. » To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription » manager: <http://lists.ebxml.org/ob/adm.pl> »
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