Meetings
Preliminary Kickoff Event Agenda
September 29, 2003
About This Event
The ASC X12 Kickoff Event features an integrated program on X12's approach to XML development. Information-packed presentations by e-business standards experts address key business and technical aspects of X12's XML architecture, called Context Inspired Component Architecture (CICA), and demonstrate how individuals can build XML business documents in X12's cross-industry setting, from submitting a project proposal to outputting XML schema. Learn how X12 - with close to 25 years of experience - helps individuals and the organizations and industries they support create sound standards and implementation strategies.
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Introductions presented by X12 leadership
Learn how you can ensure the integrity of your organization's business processes are represented in the development and changes to the X12 EDI and XML standards. Hear from X12 leadership on EDI and XML initiatives taking place in all the X12 Subcommittees, which represent key business processes across multiple industries.
10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Keynote Speaker: Rita E. Knox, Ph.D.,Gartner, Inc.
The Wild West of XML Standards Development: How Standardization Will Save You Millions
Leading Gartner Analyst Dr. Rita E. Knox provides projections on XML-defined standards development while stressing the importance of standardization, which she sees as key to the evolution of the Web computing architecture. Dr. Knox predicts that the proliferation of often redundant and conflicting XML-defined standards, supporting so many vertical domains, will lead to millions of dollars of lost effort and cause different parts of the same company to process conflicting XML messages that compromise business-critical transactions and operations. Without a common framework for how XML-defined standards should be developed, there is no hope that the savings, economic advantages, enhanced enterprise integration or improved computer processability will be realized. Hear why Dr. Knox thinks ASC X12’s XML framework is the one of the best approaches available, and likely of having long term success. Learn how you can leverage it and, as a result, leverage your participation in ASC X12 to ensure a significant return on investment.
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
The X12 CICA Approach to XML Architecture
Learn about the flexibility embedded in X12's XML architecture - Context Inspired Component Architecture (CICA) - how it compares with other architectures, and how other architectures can be incorporated into CICA. This session also defines the fundamental differences between building X12 EDI standards and representing business processes in XML schema: EDI is a very specific set of transactions whereas CICA provides a solution to defining transactions.
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Building XML Standards Using CICA Constructs, Step-by-Step
This hands-on working session provides a complete step-by-step approach to building XML business documents in the X12 environment. From turning your business requirements into project proposals to outputting XML schema, this session will detail the inner workings of developing a business document using X12's XML architecture - CICA. Attendees will also learn how X12's XML design rules can be applied to support uniformity in the development and maintenance of X12 XML business documents.
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
ASC X12 General Session Meeting, featuring X12 elections and the presentation of the Edward A. Guilbert E-Business Professional Award
6:00p.m.
Opening Reception, sponsored by Washington Publishing Company (WPC)
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