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The Universal Business Language

The Universal Business Language. International, royalty-free library of electronic transaction documents. Designed in an open and accountable vendor-neutral OASIS Technical Committee. Early adopter of ebXML Core Component Technical Specification. Released October 2004

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The Universal Business Language

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  1. The Universal Business Language • International, royalty-free library of electronic transaction documents. • Designed in an open and accountable vendor-neutral OASIS Technical Committee. • Early adopter of ebXML Core Component Technical Specification. • Released October 2004 http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ubl

  2. UBL ebXML XCBL X12 EDIFACT UBL’s Ancestry CBL XML EDI

  3. UBL 1.0 includes… • Order to Invoice document schemas. • Library of re-usable components. • XML Naming and Design rules • Basis of ATG 2 NDRs. • Forms Presentations and sample documents. • Small Business Subset: • Simplified implementation profile for SMEs. • UBL International Data Dictionary: • 600 elements translated into Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.

  4. The Meaning of Internationalization Spanish425,000,000 Korean60,000,000 Chinese (Mandarin)1,075,000,000 English 514,000,000 Japanese120,000,000

  5. UBL 2.0 • Extended library. • 29 document types, covering… • Extended Procurement • Transport • Using ATG2 Core Component Type library. • Mapping to UN/TDED, WCO • and CEFACT CCL (Oct 2005 version) • In Public Review now • Release 3Q 2006.

  6. Who is using UBL? • We don’t know! • UBL has been adopted for invoicing by the governments of Denmark and Sweden. • 15 UBL 2.0 document types planned for adoption by the UK government’s Zanzibar marketplace. • The UBL Certificate of Origin is being used by Pan Asia Alliance. • In the U.S., pieces of UBL are being used by the U.S. Navy the U.S. IRS (the federal taxation agency) and UBL will be used in a pilot project by the Dept. of Transport.

  7. Why UBL into CEFACT? • Collaboration on the delivery of a common set of eBusiness document standards, built on a common library of core components and using common process models. • UBL 1.0 is an OASIS standard. • UBL aims to be an ISO standard. • UBL has an invitation to bring the UBL activity into UN/CEFACT. • There is a plan in which… • UBL 2.0 will be reviewed by PGs (working this week) • Recommendations for improvements • Based on the results of these reviews UN/CEFACT will determine how to recognize UBL 2.0 as an external specification following its approval as an OASIS Standard. • To start collaboration a common set of eBusiness document standards, built on a common library of core components and using common process models.

  8. UBL Structure OASIS Board UBL Technical Committee Procurement Design Transportation Implementation Naming and Design Rules Human Interface Software Small Business Subset Implementation Support Localization: Chinese Japanese Korean Spanish

  9. Potential Collaboration Areas TBG 19 TBG 1 TBG 4 TBG 15 TBG 3 TMG TBG 2 (eDocs) ATG 2

  10. Milestones • March 13th CEFACT Forum • March 21st End of First Review Period (?) • May 22nd UBL Plenary (Brussels) • June 26th Second Public Review • July 10th End of Second Review • August 14th UBL Plenary (Montreal) • Sept 11th OASIS Ballot starts • October 2nd Ballot closes • October 16th OASIS UBL 2.0 Standard • November UBL Plenary (Singapore)

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