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Subject: [ebxml-dev] RE: elevator pitches (was) gorillas, beaches, etc.


All,
 
thanks for the pointers to various documents or the marketing discussion group, I will look into them. As for the requirements documents, I had read it (I wrote "Besides the requirements document there seems to be no overview.") and didn't want to  deny its value. It was the only document that provided some introduction and overview, but in the end it is a requirements document, no easy-to-digest introduction or elevator pitch. So I will look into the resources you provided.
 
Thanks,
Rainer
 

Rainer Volz
rv@vrtprj.com
www.vrtprj.com - virtual teams & distributed projects
www.vrtprj.de - virtuelle teams & verteilte projekte

 
-----Original Message-----
From: James Bryce Clark [mailto:jamie.clark@mmiec.com]
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 9:45 PM
To: MCRAWFORD@lmi.org; rv@vrtprj.com; Scott.Beach@goodrich.com
Cc: ebxml-dev@lists.ebxml.org; ebtwg-bps@lists.ebtwg.org; arijit.sengupta@oracle.com
Subject: elevator pitches (was) gorillas, beaches, etc.

    Mark is absolutely right that the value propositions in the 1.0 requirements document that Mike and his team wrote in 2001 are still the right ones.  See http://www.ebxml.org/specs/ebREQ.pdf.
    However, I agree with Scott and Rainer that we (ebXML) have been too slow to offer simple, user-friendly explanations, and get the pitch out to the right audiences.  Some of that is undoubtedly due to the nonprofit and nonaligned nature of ebXML.  However, the great advance work that Mark and his colleagues have done for other standards proves that nonprofit efforts can conduct successful PR.  
    Those interested in pursing this further as to ebXML might join the relevant discussion list Apu Sengupta has launched, ebxml-mktg at http://lists.ebxml.org/ob/adm.pl.

At 04:34 AM 6/17/02, CRAWFORD, Mark wrote:
Rainer and Scott,  If you are looking for the why of ebXML, I suggest you read the requirements document.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rainer Volz [mailto:rv@vrtprj.com]
*** I just wanted to support what Scott Beach wrote:

 -----Original Message-----
From: Beach, Scott [mailto:Scott.Beach@goodrich.com]
[...] ebXML simply lacks an "elevator speech" that is compelling to IT executives.  Web services doesn't suffer from this same marketing  paralysis.  Another case where better technologically doesn't correlate to more successful.
 

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