Euro-Asian EDI Adaptation (EA2)

• Presentation of EA2 Project
• Partners
• Point 1 - Expert knowledge and skill transfer
• Point 2 - Legislation & Institutional framework

• Point 3 - Harmonisation and Interoperability

• Point 4 - Security
• Point 5 - Standard & Quality
• Point 6 - Administrations
• Point 7 - Company and Customer
• Point 8 - Financial Institutions

 

Service interoperability gives rise to major benefits at all levels:

Direct advantages

• Cost reduction (development and operating)
• Passing-on of information, both outside and inside the company
• Time savings and quality improvement
• Easier automisation of exchange processes
• Faster implementation of processes and across-the-board reduction in organisations' stocks and WIP (physical, financial, informational);
• Real-time information collection and processing
• Greater possibility of using common resources

Indirect advantages

• Lower litigation
• Boost to corporate competivity on the export front
• Improved use of human resources

Strategic advantages

• Enhancement of organisations' capacity to react
• Focusing the company on its core activity
• Re-orientation of human resources allocated to transmission operations to other tasks.
• Better tactical and strategic decision-making

Interoperability is the result of the choice of standards. The greater the extent to which it is achieved at a high number of levels of exchanges (physical, network (transport and routing), applied, semantic) and horizontally-integrated function services, the greater the profits and resulting returns on investment. Interoperability hinges upon the selection of multiple standards, i.e. every cog in the communication wheel and every horizontally-integrated function has its own standards. The existence and utilisation of middleware modules, either internal (EAI) or external (EDI) to the Information Systems, constitute a pre-requisite for the utilisation of standards in multiple application interfaces. As far as EA2 is concerned, multiple middleware components will be given preference.

Common Interoperability Guideline specifications and other guides on interface construction are on the increase both in Europe and on an European level (IDA programme IDA horizontally-integrated projects). These specifications are in the process of being brought into line and a comprehensive list of EU-compliant recommendations on standard utilisation is expected to be published in 2004.

 

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