OverviewEnterprise Vocabulary NetSemantic-XML Message Builder Workbench

The Semantic-XML Message Builder Workbench solution provides effective information exchanges within and between organizations through re-use of information components.  The Workbench makes it possible to link data from different systems enabling XML-based data exchanges that are specific to the local context while remaining compliant with industry and enterprise standards.

Information Exchange Challenges

Successful communication across company boundaries requires the ability to understand business semantics and the context of information received from the different parties. However, the information comes from systems developed independently from each other to serve the distinctive needs of each community. The data lacks common semantics. This makes data exchanges challenging.

In a classical data integration approach, point-to-point mappings are created between the data feeds coming from the different systems. They specify how one element from one data format relates to another entity in another data format. Formats are then  transformed in a point-to-point fashion.  But this approach suffers from critical problems and deficiencies that typically make the initial integration labor intensive and its maintenance costly.  Such solutions are:

• Expensive

• Inefficient

• Error prone

• Non transparent

• Non scalable

Key Capabilities of the Solution

TopQuadrant’s Semantic-XML Message Builder Workbench  takes a new approach to data integration and exchange that re-uses information components for seamless data exchanges.  The solution:  

• Leverages the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) “Core Component Technical Specification (CCTS)” standard to create re-usable Information Components

• Provides Information Analysts with the ability to tailor and customize Information Components to describe Business Information Entities specific to their systems and data

• Guides Information Analysts in construction of Business Documents representing data exchange messages

• Enables automatic generation of an XML Schema for each Business Document

• Manages code lists, data types, terms, qualifiers and constraints in the form of metadata

• Supports versioning, governance and difference comparisons

• Preserves traceability of the message content to the Information Component definitions making it possible to meaningfully interpret and integrate data from different systems

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Key Capabilities of the Semantic-XML Message Builder Workbench

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