[ebxml-dev] ebTWG Business process analysis tools

[James Bryce Clark <jamie.clark@mmiec.com>]

On the good news front:

We received positive feedback from our colleagues at Boeing, where Dave 
Welsh, John Yunker & I gave a presentation in Seattle last week on the 
BCMCP project team work, and current and expected future deployment of 
ebXML standards.  Many of you know Christina Portillo, Jim Werner and Tom 
Warner from their contributions at the ebXML plenaries.  The discussion 
focused on our current managed commitments modeling work -- the extension 
of the ebXML 1.0 Business Process Analysis documents -- and how that 
methodology, which we are building out in the ebTWG teams, might be useful 
to Boeing's own existing business patterns analysis.  We also discussed 
various other current standards efforts and the strong potential for 
convergence towards interoperation.

Boeing shares the interests of our broad ebXML community:  transparent and 
nonproprietary BP taxonomies, simple notation methodologies that can be 
used on a "self-help" basis by in-house analysts, and strictly modular 
implementation that permits multiple tool choices at multiple layers.

The relevant BP analysis tools are likely to continue to evolve 
substantially in the next few months.  This is a generalized summary;  for 
more detailed information, see postings on the team mailing list 
<http://lists.ebtwg.org/archives/ebtwg-bcp>.

~ James Bryce Clark
~ VP and General Counsel, McLure-Moynihan Inc.
~ Chair, ABA Business Law Subcommittee on Electronic Commerce
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