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With the rapid growth of
e-Procurement systems, on-line catalogues
and marketplaces, XML is fast becoming
the standard for e-business. Many
business software systems now offer in-built
support for XML orders and invoices. However,
e-business only works where both parties
to a transaction can support it. Using
the latest technologies, Version One can
turn spooled textual output from legacy
systems without standard XML functionality,
into XML documents which can be transmitted
electronically or which can be attached
to e-mails.
Government, in particular,
is promoting the use of XML by dictating
XML-based formats for various B2G submissions,
including VAT and Intrastat returns, PAYE
returns, export declarations, etc.
Version One’s web-interface
provides document access through a standard
browser. Management reports can be automatically
posted on the company portal. XML interface
allows tight integration with the latest
web-enabled business systems as well as
company web-sites. When appropriate, a
user’s own customers can retrieve
copy invoices, PoDs, QA test certificates.
XML to Legacy
Inbound XML documents can
be converted to legacy text formats such
as CSV or flat ASCII files for processing
by legacy systems without XML support.
The Version One document management
software technology can also
be used to render XML documents into human-readable
documents for printing, faxing or archiving
in a document management
system. This technology doesn't just convert
XML into HTML (which is easy); it can
convert XML into HP PCL output (which
prints with pinpoint precision on a laser
printer)
- to PDF format which adjusts
automatically to different paper sizes
in different countries
- to TIFF format for processing
using OCR by systems designed to handle
scanned documents.
XML to XML
The problem with many standards
is, which version of the 'standard' to
use. Many different 'vocabularies' or
'schema' have arisen in different vertical
markets. The Version One solution can
be used to extract data from one XML document
and use it to create an XML document using
a different schema.
XML to EDI, EDI
to XML
If you or your trading partners
have systems which support EDI but not
XML, the Version One document management
technology can be employed to covert from
one format to another. |
