Harmonization

UN/CEFACT Lunch & LearnMarch 13, 2006Daniel I. KazzazChair, Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12CEO, Rapid Data Interchange (RDI)

Harmonization

About ASC X12 Offers a neutral environment for cross-industry

standards collaboration & harmonization

Administers a dynamic process that effectively creates, reviews, approves & maintains standards

Over 315 X12 EDI transaction sets

The standard focuses on rigor, completeness and reuse

Produces XML Schema via X12’s Context Inspired Component Architecture (CICA)

X12 Subcommittee & Task Groups

Communications & Controls

Finance

Government

Harmonization & Outreach

Insurance

Marketing Policies &

Procedures Supply Chain Technical

Assessment Transportation

X12 Tools & Processes

Central repository

Automated message definition exchange

Tools to simplify & expedite message development

Altova, EDIFECS, GEFEG & Sparx Systems

Smart message definition exchange

What’s on the Horizon?Lessons learned from HIPAAExpanding from B2B to B2C

transactionsStandardized exchanges inside &

outside organizationsRequirements for both batch and

interactive transactions

Harmonization

Committed to working with complementary standards organizations and industry verticals

Collaborating with organizations to reduce redundancies and leveraging knowledge to enhance business process flow

HarmonizationMessage capabilityBusiness processMessage approval process

Future Collaboration

Restore strong relationship between ASC X12 and UN/CEFACT

Promote shared code set, syntactic and semantic interoperability

Share resources

Joint efforts with other SDO’s

Questions/Comments

Dan Kazzaz

kazzaz@verizon.net