28. August 2008: E-Commerce-Standard »openTRANS® V2.0« im Test

Today purchasers and suppliers transact their business via the internet. The interchange of business-documents needs to be automated and the data needs to be in one interchangable language. The basis for such a E-Commerce-Esperanto is a transaction-standard like openTRANS.

Fraunhofer IAO developed openTRANS already in 2001 in a cooperation with the BLI - University Duisburg-Essen and industrial partners in germany. Today we provide the second, improved version of the standard in a draft-version to be tested by the users of the standard.

openTRANS© can be seen as complementary to BMEcat© 2005, which also was developed under contribution of the Fraunhofer IAO. Today the BLI - University Duisburg-Essen supports BMEcat© 2005. The close cooperation between the two instituts is the root for the compatibility of the two standards.

In version 2.0 of openTRANS© we have two new business-documents for the post-sales-area. Read more about the changes on this page.

For questions and suggestions contact nico.weiner(at)iao.fraunhofer.de. The draft-version of the standard can be downloaded on this page via free registration.

The openTRANS© 2.0 development-team consists of the Fraunhofer IAO, BLI-University Duisburg-Essen, AlphaPlus Trusted Services GmbH, BDS GmbH, businessMart AG, Cantor Software GmbH, eBanking Services Nord GmbH, Inoutic/Deceunick GmbH, ServiCon Service & Consult eG, VBH Deutschland GmbH und XimantiX GmbH.