UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 1 UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary Vancouver, Canada 12 – 17 March 2006

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 2 Agenda Welcome Working Group Reports  BPWG  CCWG  EBAWG Modeler’s Reference Initiative (MRI) UBL OMG Day

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 3 TMG BP Projects ProjectResp.StatusPriority Est. Date UMM N090 – IntroductionCHOngoingmediumEnd Q1/06 UMM N091 – UMM Foundation ModuleCHODP 5very highEnd Q1/06 UMM N092 – UMM Base ModuleJDODP 5highEnd Q1/06 UMM N093 – UMM User GuideBMFirst drafthighEnd Q1/06 BCSS – SpecificationSCODP 4very highEnd Q1/06 BPSS V1.1 – Specification – merge with OASISKHCompletehighEnd Q1/06 REA Economic Ontology Module Spec for the UMMBMODP 1mediumEnd 2006

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 4 TMG CC Projects ProjectResp.StatusPriority Est. Date CCTS Part 1 – Metamodel + MethodologyGSODP 3highEnd Q2/06 CCTS Part 2 – Message Assembly (working title)GBODP 2highEnd Q2/06 CCTS Part 3 – User GuideMBMaint.lowEnd Q3/06 Context Methodology SpecificationJZODP 1HighEnd Q2/06

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 5 TMG EBA Projects ProjectResp.StatusPriority Est. Date Electronic Business Architecture SpecificationATODP 2mediumEnd Q1/06 GlossaryJWongoinglowN/A UBAC – Metamodel and SpecificationATODP 2medium?

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 6 BPWG: UMM 2 nd working draft of UMM Base and UMM Foundation Module ready for ODP Step 5. The review period will start on and will end on It will be available at next week.

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 7 BPWG: BCSS BCSS v1.0 draft specification is released to ODP Step 4 and will be available at next week. Includes UML profile but NOT:  Context (pending Context Methodology Project)  XMI profile (leverage OMG interoperability compliance work) Early planning for BCSS 2.0  UML 2.0 profile  CCTS 3.0 compliance Will carefully consider project/spec scope and name for the next version

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 8 BPWG: BPSS The next version of OASIS’s BPSS standard, v2.0.3, will be submitted to ISO TC 154 for approval as ISO/DTS The TMG will recommend to the CEFACT Plenary (meeting in May) that this action be supported by CEFACT. UN/CEFACT and OASIS will announce that BPSS 3.0 will be a joint effort. TMG and OASIS ebBP TC still need to work out details regarding how/where the work will be done. The v3.0 project will take in all current TMG comments and work to better align BPSS with the UMM.

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 9 BPWG: UBAC UBAC –Unified Business Agreements and Contract project  Joint meeting with LG on Wednesday  Joint meeting with LG and TBG2, regarding BRS for clickable agreements Reached high level agreement on task/project assignments  Worked towards finalization of joint requirements

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 10 BPWG: REA REA Economic Ontology Specialization Module for the UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology project approved Bill McCarthy appointed Chair Call for participation will go out shortly

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 11 CCWG: CCTS This Week  Brief overview meeting Next Week – four day meeting  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday (at Xenos)  Goal Finalize changes to next version/release Complete update of comment log Send out for review by TMG

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 12 CCWG: CCMA This Week  Brief meeting to review draft of Technical Specification Plans  Update the Specification  Develop alternative UMM model of a message  Conference calls every other Monday, starting April 3  Noon, CET, for two hours

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 13 CCWG: Context Methodology I Context Methodology Project approved Joe Zhou appointed Chair Call for participation will go out shortly Note: Project deliverables will address CC, BP, and registry concepts.

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 14 CCTS: Context Methodology II Project Steps Review and evaluate current UN/CEFACT standards that are related to and potentially impacted by the context methodology; Develop a context framework meta-model and a context methodology for the implementation of the meta-model; For each area (category) of the context meta-model, develop a taxonomy that can be used to populate the eventual context driver value instance. Existing taxonomies shall be used. Collaborate with TBG in developing business process related context model and examples; Collaborate with ICG in registry meta-model and implementation; Develop first complete draft for review.

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 15 Architectural Workgroup Architectural WG has re-started the Architectural Process  A collaborative work with all groups  Chair Anders W. Tell The Architecture will support the UN/CEFACT Electronic Business vision & mission and implement the UN/CEFACT Electronic Business Strategy Intends to show how all required methodologies and technologies fits together (CCTS, UMM, BCSS, NDR, UN/EDIFACT, UNeDocs, ebXML, Web Services...)  Works with MRI to describe “UN/CEFACT product 1.0” Meets Tuesday  Working on Architectural vision  Working on Architectural white papers  Discussion session on Business Web Services Investigating broader collaboration of OMG technologies;  Performing GAP-analysis  1st joint meeting in Tampa Bay, Florida, with OMG, in February  2nd joint meeting in Vancouver on Thursday

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 16 Classification of technical specifications

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 17 Highlights A productive 2nd MRI-sunday  Founder: Anders W. Tell  MRI Purpose: Stimulate, facilitate and motivate the uptake of the UN/CEFACT modeling approach  Information and experience sharing amongst groups  35+ participants from all groups  ebArchitecture Workgroup provided … an overview of UN/CEFACT work products and their versions; Business Standards, UN Recommendations, Technical Specifications overview of Business Standards Workflow and Open Development Process (ODP)  Discussions conducted regarding “UN/CEFACT Product v2.0”

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 18 Upcoming Meetings June 2006: UN/CEFACT TMG Meeting at SWIFT in Brussels, Belgium October 2006 (tentative): UN/CEFACT Forum in New Dehli, India

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 19 Modeler’s Reference Initiative (MRI) The MRI Chair, Ian Watt, will propose that MRI get a more prominent position within TBG. The main objective is to assemble the business knowledge experts in TBG, TMG, ATG, and ICG. Provide feedback directed to the FMG regarding issues or opportunities Develop UN/CEFACT UMM/CCTS/NDR/Repository “cookbook” Will have a website Develop case studies

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 20 UBL UBL expectation of TMG  Clear advice from TMG to UBL regarding UBL library conformance with CCTS 2.01 with the goal being that the UBL library submission will be conformant  Initial review with comments to be completed by 30 April Joint UBL/TMG expectations  Develop a plan to use UBL 2.0 as a base library for CCTS 3.0 implementation verification

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 21 OMG Day Productive day on teleconference with OMG modeling experts Jens will lead a gap analysis between UMM and BPDM/BPMN There are other areas worth analyzing, if leaders step forward, such as ODM, UML2, etc.

UN/CEFACT TMG Closing Plenary  Vancouver, CanadaSlide 22 UN/CEFACT S IMPLE, T RANSPARENT AND E FFECTIVE P ROCESSES FOR G LOBAL B USINESS.