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Subject: RE: [ubl-dev] UBL and CCTS: Improvement interoperability ?
> > I have been following the developments of the CCTS groups > lead by the SAP people for more than a year. Please note that CCTS is not an SAP lead effort. It is a UN/CEFACT led effort in which many SDOs, governments, private sector companies and solutions providors (SAP, Oracle)participate. > I have from the beginning been trying to understand how this > improves interoperability between two communication partners, > standards and systems. CCTS is about creating semantic interoperability. It is not targeted at information exchanges between two of anything. It is targeted at created universal semantic interoperability of business information through a single ubiquituous conceptual data model and contextualized logical data models. The power of CCTS is such that this interoperability can be applied at any level - organizational, enterprise, industry, cross-industry. > What is the status of implementing CCTS within UBL and / or OASIS ? UBL is built on CCTS from the ground up. It is mostly conformant with CCTS. They only have a logical - not conceptual - data model (No core components). OASIS is an umbrella organization who facilitates independent standards development and this structure is such that the concept of CCTS implementation is not appropriate. A bigger question is what is the status of implementing CCTS. UN/CEFACT has implemented it. OAGi has implemented part and is developing a transition plan for full implementation. It has been used by the US government in a number of projects - as well as by other governments around the world. Private companies have begun to implement it for their logical data base structures. SAP is using it for defining their global data types which are used in their service definitions. Oracle is doing the same. Kind Regards, Mark Mark Crawford SAP Standards Architect Global Ecosystem and Partner Group Office: 703 670-0920 Mobile: 703 485-5232
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