Chaemee Kim

Conducting business in an electronic manner requires the exchange of a wide range of parameters - company profiles, catalogs, business processes, schemas, et al. - for describing appropriate business documents. How can these parameters be stored and managed? How can companies locate and use trading partner information? The ebXML initiative has defined a RegRep (Registry/Repository) as providing a shared space for one or more B2B communities. With an ebXML RegRep, companies can submit, update, deprecate, or otherwise manage the parameters required to conduct electronic business. The RegRep also defines standardized APIs to access or otherwise share these parameters across trading communities. You may have heard about the benefits of a B2B business model, a concept that grew out of the electronic trading communities that were defined using EDI (via the X12 and EDIFA... (more)