(for: executives and business implementers)

eBusiness Applications
Chair: Nigel P. Bray, Consultant, Astbury Software Ltd, United Kingdom

Using XML to Overcome Barriers to Collaborative Selling
Nick Arnold, Director of Strategic Business Consulting, iMediation, USA
After a period of uncertainty over the impact of the Internet on traditional resellers and channel partners, it is now clear that dis-intermediation is not the norm. Traditional channel partners, as well as new players, need increasingly integrated information and business processes. For one or more partners to collaborate effectively online, they must synchronize their content, pricing policies, inventory availability and logistics systems. This paper will discuss how XML can be used to facilitate online collaborative selling by overcoming obstacles to business process integration.

The Fusion of XML and Peer-to-Peer for e-Business
Michael Klein, Managing Director, CEDION GmbH, NextPage Premier Partner, Germany
Peer-to-peer technology is revolutionizing e-business. Using XML, companies are implementing Peer-to-Peer Content Networking technology for e-business by creating virtual repositories of internal and external business-critical information within enterprises. Peer-to-Peer Content Networks significantly improve employee productivity, increase revenues and improve the bottom line.

RDF E-Commerce Advantages: A Case Study
Race Bannon, Ph.D., Director of Training, informationArchitects, and Robert S. Gingras, Director of Electronic Commerce, General Motors, USA
Aggregation & dynamic intent in a metadata framework. Java/XML Integration; ebXML & RDF Server advantages; conversion to XML; filter data-tracking; aggregation template that is bidirectional in a syndicated view; multiple fragments from disparate sources.

(for: executives and business implementers)

eBusiness Applications
Chair: Nick Arnold, Director of Strategic Business Consulting, iMediation, USA

An Executive's View of Using XML in Supply Chain Management
Kevin Kail, President, XMLSolutions Corporation, USA
This presentation will analyze how the powerful, new technology called eXtensible Markup Language (XML), will revolutionize the way Supply Chain Management is conducted.

The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org)
Ishmael Ghalimi, CEO, Intalio and chair BPMI.org, USA; Howard Smith, CTO, Computer Sciences Corporation, Europe, United Kingdom
The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org) is an independent organization devoted to the development of open specifications for the management of e-Business processes that span multiple applications, corporate departments, and business partners, behind the firewall and over the Internet. BPMI.org defines open specifications such as the Business Process Modelling Language (BPML) and the Business Process Query Language (BPQL) that will enable the standard-based management of e-Business processes with forthcoming Business Process Management Systems (BPMS), in much the same way SQL enabled the standard-based management of business data with off-the-shelf Database Management Systems (DBMS). BPML supports the full lifecycle of enterprise process discovery, design, deployment, execution, maintenance, analysis, and optimisation. Applications that leverage BPML and a BPMS will be agile, flexible, and built to integrate inside and outside the enterprise. BPMS represents the convergence of EAI and B2Bi technologies and solutions, in order to achieve the promise of the process-managed enterprise.

Plugging People into B2B Infrastructure
Matthew Gertner, CEO, Schemantix, United Kingdom
After revolutions in both human-to-human and machine-to-machine communication, the third wave of the web will let people "plug in" to XML-based B2B infrastructure, enabling humans and machines to interact freely, whenever and wherever they need to. This talk discusses how XML schemas can be used to facilitate the creation of browser-hosted web GUIs that enable humans to work easily inside existing B2B infrastructure. Just as XML schemas are used increasingly to describe interapplication communication, schemas can also be used as the basis for generating web GUIs that let humans receive, consult, modify and send XML business messages without the need for custom software development. Examples are drawn from Schemantix's experience in creating XMLForms, an XML-schema-based form generation engine.

Unlocking the Motion of Industry – XML Enabled Transactive Content and Its Impact on B2B
Graham J. Wylie, Marketing Manager – Europe, Enigma, United Kingdom
This presentation looks at how XML and XSL technologies are being applied to legacy data and content integration with back office and order management applications. It also examines how transactive content is being leveraged to deliver personalization and cross-selling to generate new market opportunities. Points are illustrated with reference to case studies from companies that include GE, Pratt & Whitney, Delta Airlines and Perkins Engines.