Re: [ebxml-mktg-sc] FW: [ebxml-mktg] ebXML seen as SME web serviceenabler

[Monica Martin <monica.martin@sun.com>]

Carol Geyer wrote:

>Anybody have any contacts in the Thailand government we can hit up for
>an ebXML case study?
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mm1: Sorry for the delay.  Traveling.  I'll see what I can do if you 
have some contacts.

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>From: Monica Martin [mailto:monica.martin@sun.com]
>Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 12:47 AM
>To: carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
>Subject: Re: [ebxml-mktg] ebXML seen as SME web service enabler
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>Carol Geyer wrote:
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>>Bangkok Post
>>ebXML seen as SME web service enabler
>>http://www.bangkokpost.com/060803_Database/06Aug2003_data01.html
>>by Sasiwimon Boonruang
>>6 Aug 2003
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>mm1: Do you have contacts so I can get more details? Thanks.
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>>Govt, private sector begin pilot projects
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>>The Government and the private sector have adopted the Electronic
>>Business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML) standard to boost national
>>competitiveness, launching Internet-based paperless trading pilot
>>projects and a collaborative e-tourism project .
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>>ebXML is an open standard around web services that will be crucial in
>>three major aspects _ setting standards for data; standards for data
>>interchange as well as for electronic service interchange, according to
>>the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec)
>>director Dr Thaweesak Koanatakool.
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>>Speaking at a seminar on ebXML Awareness Day last week, Dr Thaweesak
>>noted that these three open standards were important infrastructure
>>necessary to develop one-stop e-government services, for collaborative
>>B2B e-commerce and to provide an opportunity for the local software
>>industry.
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>>Meanwhile, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Ministry
>>will now appoint a committee on data interchange standard.
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>>IT veteran and honorary president of the ATCI Manoo Ordeedolchest said
>>traditional e-commerce was the interaction between humans and
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>>but that we would soon be seeing computer-to-computer interactions.
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>>But this new economy will not bring benefits here unless SMEs were also
>>part of this electronic business. Smaller firms needed to use ICT and
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>>order to create competitiveness ebXML technology or web services were
>>the solution, said Mr Manoo, who is also a consultant to the ICT
>>minister.
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>>The Internet and web services would change all business transactions
>>soon, he said, noting that web service technology would define the
>>practice of decreasing a company's dependence on complicated high-cost
>>software.
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>>This would enable SMEs to adjust to enable themselves to conduct
>>e-business at lower cost,'' he said, adding that this was all about
>>business collaboration.
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>>Computer systems would not be for data processing as they were today,
>>but rather they would be extended to do serious business-to-business
>>applications, including self-service, business collaboration, and
>>dynamic discovery.
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>>Mr Manoo noted that the convergence between the traditional PSTN and
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>>emerging PSDN, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and distributed
>>systems were the ``big three'' new technologies.
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>>He explained that SOA defined a new concept for a service requester,
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>>a service provider, and for a service registry to support business
>>collaboration over computer networks. The distributed system worked
>>under a set of ``standard'' technologies including a data standard, a
>>data interchange standard and a work process standard.
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>>If Thailand decided to develop its software industry to be at the edge
>>of a new wave of ICT technologies, it should focus on technologies
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>>the market is abundant in size and opportunity such as distributed
>>system technology, enterprise software technology and XML for business,
>>he said.
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>>``ebXML is an opportunity that enable SMEs to expand their markets
>>throughout the globe,'' he said, adding that the Government must invest
>>and allow SMEs to utilise services from a central point.
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>>According to Commerce Ministry's Business Development deputy director
>>general Skol Harnsuthivarin, the department was now working with other
>>organisations to cope with the problem of data interchange by applying
>>the ebXML standard.
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>>To achieve the target of paperless trading in the year 2005, the
>>department and all agencies in the ministry first have to complete
>>integration within the ministry by the end of next year and then extend
>>it to the external partners.
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>>An Internet-based paperless trading pilot project is now being
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>>with the cooperation of the Customs Department, the E-commerce Resource
>>Centre (ECRC), the Institute for Innovative IT of Kasetsart University
>>(i3t-KU), the Business Development department and private companies
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>>as Minebea (Thailand), TKK, and CTI Logistics.
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>>The project aims to analyse the system in terms of traditional EDI and
>>ebXML, to find a suitable way to promote the utilisation of ICT in SMEs
>>and to boost competitiveness through the B2B e-business. It also pushes
>>for the development of data interchange and service interchange
>>standards in order to accommodate APEC's paperless trading project.
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>>Another ebXML pilot project is collaborative e-tourism, conducted by
>>i3t-KU, ECRC, and Datamat. Objectives are to promote SMEs in the
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>>industry to use ICT to cut costs, to enhance efficiency and to expand
>>their markets.
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>>Carol Geyer
>>Director of Communications
>>OASIS
>>http://www.oasis-open.org
>>carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
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