- UN/CEFACT
The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business, (UN/CEFACT) has a mission to improve the ability of business, trade and administrative organizations, from developed, developing and transitional economies, to exchange products and relevant services effectively - and so contribute to the growth of global commerce. The Centre is a subsidiary body of the UNECE Committee on Trade (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe).
The Centre is inclusive, in that it welcomes participation from
United Nations Member States , intergovernmental agencies, sectoral and industry associations recognized by theUnited Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) as well as the private sector, from which much of UN/CEFACT's technical expertise comes.UN/CEFACT facilitates the development of e-business standards that can cross all international boundaries and help lower transaction costs, simplify data flow and reduce
bureaucracy .Work outputs of UN/CEFACT activities include
ebXML ,UN/CEFACT's Modeling Methodology (UMM) andUN/EDIFACT .A cornerstone of the "UN/CEFACT approach" is the
Core Component Technical Specification (CCTS) .Picture of the future of a holistic UN/CEFACT-based e-Business stack: "From EDI to UN/CEFACT - An Evolutionary Path towards a Next Generation e-Business Stack": In the course of the NCEB2006 conference (5th International Conference on e-Business), an evolutionary path towards the most promising solution in e-Business and e-Government that is developed by UN/CEFACT is presented.
External links
* [http://www.unece.org/cefact/ UN/CEFACT]
* [http://www.unece.org/cefact/publica/publi_index.htm Recent specifications such as CCTS]
* [http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/publications/30346/L-en "From EDI to UN/CEFACT - An Evolutionary Path towards a Next Generation e-Business Stack"]
* [https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/4470 Information about the potential of UN/CEFACT]
* [https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn?rid=/webcontent/uuid/1baa57f9-0a01-0010-1684-c42a08982294 SAP Developer Network: How to solve the business standards dilemma]
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