1. Member Status Report Philip Wong
Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development
The 17th eAC Meeting
Bangkok

2. Hermes Messaging Gateway
Since June 2002
ebMS V2
Reliable & Secure
Open Source
SPA Architecture

3. Local & Overseas Adoption
Used in 80+ economies
Australia, Canada, China, Taiwan, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Korea, Japan, Macau, Myanmar, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, UK, USA, Vietnam, …
Integrate into products and services worldwide
DBBKK (Germany), TIE (Netherlands), Webswell (US), Crimsonlogic (Singapore), HK Government EGIS (HK)
Well adopted locally
HKSAR Government
Dairy Farm Group (HK large consumer goods retailer chain)
HMV HK
MTRC (HK major subway operator)
OOCL (international shipping company)
Sony Music HK

4. Interoperability Certificated

5. Local & Regional Awarded
6th HKCS IT Excellence
Awards 2004, Hong Kong
2004 Asia Pacific ICT
Awards in R&D Cat.

6. Hermes 5th Year Hermes 2 Open source http://community.cecid.hku.hk
And this year is Hermes’ fifth year-old birthday.
SO... WHAT’S NEW?
We announced H2 Open source edition on 1st July, named it H2O.
We absorbed and opened the features of Enterprise Edition which was not free.
Now it is totally free and open under GPL v2 license.
Hermes 2 Open source

7. Easy Configuration

8. Easy Management

9. Community Site

10. Supporting Articles

11. Discussion Group

12. H2O in the world

13. B2B Connector Hermes Embedded Document Exchange Appliance Plug N Play
NO Programming Required
ebMS Ready

14. New B2B Connector

15. Revamped Admin Interface

16. Recent Project
Titled as “e-Logistics Appliance with Data Exchange and Technologies for Infrastructure Connectivity”
Secured ~US$840,000 funding from HK Government and several leading logistics and IT firms in Hong Kong, including DTTN
Project schedule: Jul 2007 –Dec 2008 (18 months)

17. Background DTTN - Digital Trade and Transportation Network
Electronic platform for 9 logistics industries to transact through exchange of electronic documents
Reduce cost and improve efficiency
Interconnect partners by single, low cost, digital link
ebMS is one of core messaging protocols

18. Project Objective Development of an e-Logistic Appliance
Prepare standardized messages for exchange
Exchange messages with other logistics partners

19. Thank You! http://community.cecid.hku.hk http://www.cecid.hku.hk