RosettaNet Press Release
RosettaNet Enables UDDI Universal Business Registry For Trading Partners In The High Technology Industry
Consortium Registers Partner Interface Processes® (PIPs® ) to Facilitate Discovery and Management of Online Relationships
For Release
April 25, 2001
Santa Ana --
RosettaNet today announced the registration of 83 RosettaNet business
process standards within the UDDI Universal Business Registry, making RosettaNet one of the largest
contributors of e-business process standards to UDDI thus far.
This registration effort seeks to simplify the registration and
discovery of e-business processes by and between companies using RosettaNet standards to transact
business across the supply chain.
An e-business registry specification serves an important function and is most commonly
referred to as an electronic version of the Yellow, Green and White Pages.
A universal registry structure allows companies to register the
attributes of their e-business environment: who they are, how to find them and the types of
electronic business relationships they can support.
It is a focused way to discover partners and determine their
capabilities, regardless of industry or geography.
Assuming both partners are speaking the same language, they can also
choose to begin a "plug and play" e-business relationship.
"RosettaNet sees real value in a single, universally accepted registry standard which can be
used across all supply chains, such as the one developed under the UDDI Project," said Jennifer
Hamilton, chief executive officer for RosettaNet.
"We were pleased at how quickly we were able to register all of the
RosettaNet PIPs within the UDDI registry.
We're confident this up-front effort will enable companies to register
themselves and their support for specific RosettaNet PIPs quite easily."
This announcement is among the first in a series of cross-industry XML standards initiatives
from RosettaNet, the leader in global e-business process standards for the Information Technology
(IT), Electronic Components (EC), and Semiconductor Manufacturing (SM) industries
.
A coalition of 260 plus business and technology leaders are facilitating the development and
deployment of an open, Internet-based Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI)
specification. UDDI is an important building block in enabling businesses to quickly, easily and
dynamically find and transact business with one another using the electronic business processes
they support.
"The UDDI registry provides a great resource for RosettaNet enabled businesses to further
enhance their ability to efficiently participate in e-commerce relationships," said Christopher
Kurt, general program manager of UDDI and group program manager at Microsoft.
"Global visibility of both the RosettaNet PIPs, as well as the
consistent registration of the large number of RosettaNet trading partners, ensures that electronic
business information can be readily exchanged throughout the high technology industry.
UDDI is a key enabler for the next generation of e-commerce."
RosettaNet views the UDDI initiative as a complementary enabler to RosettaNet's business
process standards in the high-technology industry.
Part of the information captured during the registration process
includes the specific business processes and protocols supported by each participating company.
By registering as a RosettaNet-capable trading partner, along with the
specific RosettaNet PIP versions supported, UDDI can be used as a convenient way for companies in
the IT, EC and SM supply chain to discover each other and their capabilities.
"In order to win in today's competitive landscape, you must be able to reconfigure your
supply web quickly," added Paul Tearnen, vice president, standards management, RosettaNet.
"RosettaNet's scope does not cover registries or repositories.
We have identified this service, however, as an important and integral
part of an overall e-business process architecture and are pleased with our working relationship
with the UDDI Project," said Tearnen.
RosettaNet is encouraging its partners to register with UDDI to speed connectivity between
RosettaNet-enabled trading partners, lower the cost of e-business discovery and integration, and
facilitate and simplify the set-up of supply chain relationships, especially with small and
mid-size trading partners.
Standards Components and Convergence: A RosettaNet Perspective
Many private companies and industry organizations today are proposing a wide array
of vertical and horizontal standards in support of a common e-business language -- so many, in
fact, that it is becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate among the multitude of standards
activities.
"There is currently no way of easily identifying the e-business
process challenge each standards organization strives to resolve.
More importantly, it has often times been difficult for standards
bodies themselves to identify where their efforts may be complementary and where they may be
overlapping," said Hamilton.
RosettaNet has surveyed the XML-related standards space and, as a service to the
industry, has developed a conceptual model that not only defines the components required for B2B
business connectivity, but also enables the comparison of horizontal and vertical XML standards
efforts using nine distinct layers.
RosettaNet's presentation, "XML Standards Components and Convergence: A RosettaNet
Perspective," and supporting documentation is available on its Web site.
Click here to view this page.
About UDDI
The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) project is a 260 plus
member coalition of business and technology leaders committed to the acceleration and broadening of
business-to-business integration and commerce on the Internet through enabling Web services. For
more information on the UDDI Project go to:
http://www.uddi.org
.
About RosettaNet
RosettaNet is an independent, non-profit consortium dedicated to the collaborative
development and rapid deployment of open Internet-based business standards that align processes
within the global high-technology trading network.
More than 400 companies representing over $1 trillion in annual Information Technology,
Electronic Components and Semiconductor Manufacturing revenues currently participate in
RosettaNet's standards development, strategy and implementation activities. A complete list of
partner companies and more information on RosettaNet can be found at
www.rosettanet.org.
