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Dear David, Hi. I think we met at XML 2005 last year. I've recently become a UK representative to the UN/CEFACT TMG that produces CCTS (http://www.untmg.org/). --- David Carver <d_a_carver@y...> wrote: > 1. Why make the switch to CCTS? > 2. What are the short term and long term benefits. > 3. Are there any down sides to migrating to CCTS? The long term advantage to everyone will be if we adopt a common methodology, so that we aren't all re-inventing the same wheel every time one of us starts a new project. That is what I am looking for CCTS to deliver. Pragmatically, my experience is that data and methodology standards often don't pay for themselves until there are software applications available which support those standards. As a really early adopter, you have to write as much software as you would for a proprietary approach, and possible more (if your proprietary approach is narrower in scope than the standards approach). I expect UBL to make CCTS use widespread, but people won't be using it *because* it is CCTS, they will be using it because that is what their trading partners are using. They won't realise they are using CCTS under the hood/bonnet. Once there is that momentum in the market, I think there will be a business case to do new work using CCTS, and possible move some existing work. SAP is moving to using CCTS in its products too, that will cause other folks to move to CCTS, possibly without realising it. You are going to have to make a serious decision about where on the adoption curve you want to be. I think it's fair to say that CCTS is still at the early adopters stage, and possibly will be for a couple more years. Cheers, Tony. -- Anthony B. Coates Senior Partner Miley Watts Experts In Data +44 (79) 0543 9026 Data standards participant: ISO 20022 (ISO 15022 XML), ISO 19302, UN/CEFACT TMG, MDDL, FpML, UBL.
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