[ebxml-mktg] Build it and they will come ?

["Yader, Mark (GXS)" <Mark.Yader@gxs.ge.com>]

Title: Build it and they will come ?

Fellow members of ebxml-JMT (who art thou ?):

I am soliciting your ideas. I was hoping that the JMT would have a f-2-f meeting sometime soon after Barcelona (which I could not attend due to the "hard times" in the IT industry), but I haven't seen anything planned just yet.

As the ebXML evangelist in my company,I have successfully implemented a program to initiate development of ebXML capabilities. However, my company is now asking me: What is the market for this stuff (i.e, if we build it, who will come ?).

Many of you probably know us, but if not, GXS provides B2B software products and eCommerce services. I believe it will be important for us to support ebMS and other components of the ebXML architecture. However, I need to do some market research that "proves that" (our marketing team doesn't have the resources to do this)

I joined the ebXML-JMT in a hope to meet some leading-edge companies (i.e potential users, not other vendors...who I am meeting through the DGI Interoperability testing) that might help me in this regard.

Any suggestions ? Are there any Fortune 1000, or even SMEs, that would be willing to share with me your plans to use ebXML in the near future ?

Many thanks and regards.......

Mark Yader
Director
Global eXchange Services (GXS)
301.340.5466