April 7th 2010: Survey on the usage of openTRANS
There is a new survey on our website http://www.opentrans.org which is about the usage of the transaction standard openTRANS. The survey addresses companies of all sectors, consultants and service providers as well as organisations which use e-business standards or are interested in e-business standards. The survey is arranged by the Fraunhofer IAO, Competence Center Electronic Business, Stuttgart. You can find the survey on http://www.opentrans.org/survey/.
Goals of this survey are:
* identification of user groups,
* propagation and application of e-business standards, especially openTRANS,
* as well as to evaluate the support for openTRANS.
The results of this survey will be published on www.opentrans.org. The first result are presumably presented in the mid of June. If you want to be mentioned as an openTRANS-provider or an openTRANS-user you can tell us during the survey by offering some details about your company. The survey includes general questions on the usage of e-business standards before getting into detail with openTRANS. It takes up to 15 minutes to finish the longest version of the survey. You can find the survey on http://www.opentrans.org/survey/.
Thank you in advance for your support.
Oct. 2nd 2009: Final version of openTRANS 2.1 now available for download
After publication of the draft version in July, we published the final version today. We had three months of public review again and want to thank all contributors and experts who supported us during the development!
This update is only a face lifting and no large structural changes were made. Most adaptations have been made in the invoicelist-document. Now users are able to utilize credit card statements in a much more flexible way than they were before. Here is the list of the most significant changes:
- Documentation:
- We improved many descriptions and added more examples. Additionally the outdated examples were replaced with new ones.
- Structural changes:
- Dispatchnotification: The element DELIVERY_DATE has been replaced by DELIVERY_REFERENCE (which actually contains DELIVERY_DATE) to support delivery note references on item level.
- Invoice and remittanceadvice: Within INVOICE_CORRECTION it is now possible to add a post-date. This is mainly due to changes in the invoicelist document.
- Invoicelist: We have made a lot of changes here, mainly related to the credit-card-statement document-type. Please consult documenation for details.
- Order and orderchange: On both documents it is now possible to integrate partial shipment dates on item-level.
The efforts caused through a migration of 2.1fd to 2.1 documents should be minimal with the exception of the invoicelist - credit card statement which got some new elements to implement.Reasonable expenditure should alsoaffect migrations from 2.0 to 2.1 since no major structural changes were made. We recommend to switch to openTRANS 2.1 since this is the latest stabel release for a while. We do not plan to publish an additional update for the moment.
We could solve the .CHM-File generation-error in this release. Therefore we provide windows help files (.chm-files) as an alternative to the PDF-documentation. Please note, that chm-files in some cases cannot be opened remote from a netdrive-infrastructure (microsoft support: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896358). Please consult microsofts-support or copy the file to your local environment to start the chm-file correctly.
We thank all contributors and users for their support and wish the best for applications and implementations of the standard in version 2.1!
July 1st, 2009: openTRANS update - openTRANS 2.1fd is now ready for download
First of all: The feedback for the new standard is overwhelming and very positive and we really appreciate this and are happy about this success!
Since publication of version 2.0 in october last year we recieved a lot of feedback about smaller mistakes in the documentation and smaller improvements in the standard. We have done our homework and now present to you the final draft update to openTRANS 2.1fd. This is a smaller update mainly to solve some issues in the documentation. We have we done? Beside improvements of the documentation we implemented some pre-defined values for card-payment, allowances and charges for the orderresponse-document-header, changed the structure of the xml-signature and adapted the regular expression of dtADJUSTMENT_REASON_CODES. Additionally we present to you the english version and a small example of the invoice-document. You can use this example as a helping hand for the other documents as well since the structure is very similar.
openTRANS 2.1fd (final draft) is intended to replace version 2.0.
Like always we plan a public review-phase for this version where you can tell us your suggestions and ideas. Larger change-request probably do not find their way into this version 2.1 since it is planned as a minor update. Nethertheless if you have such requests we will care about them and keep them on-hold for a later version.
Good luck for implementations and usage of the standard and again, many thanks for the positive feedback and the good advices for this version!
Oct. 22nd, 2008: sustainable E-Business with openTRANS© 2.0
The time has come. After extensive check of the draft-version of openTRANS© 2.0 by public contributors and projectpartners, the final version of the standard was published today.
openTRANS© 2.0 was developed by the Fraunhofer Institute of industrial engineering (IAO) in cooperation with the BLI of the University Duisburg-Essen. The open and free standard provides business-documents like invoice and order on a XML-basis. To set up the standard for present and future requirements, we have collected suggestions to improve the standard and optimize version 2.0.
We want to thank our projectpartners for their commitment in the development of the new version. Beside the Fraunhofer IAO and the BLI - University Duisburg-Essen the following partners supported the openTRANS© 2.0 developement: 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.
The most significant improvements consist of two new business-documents, the remittance-advice and the invoice-list. Therefore it is now possible to create VAT relevant invoice-lists. Additionally you can create credit notes now. As a result of the numerous changes and improvements we recommend to switch to version 2,0 of the standard. Through the changes the standard is not compatible to the versions before 2.0.
Register now for free to get all documents and infos about the openTRANS-standard. Please note that we are currently working on the english-translation for the documents.Aug. 28th 2008: E-Commerce-Standard »openTRANS© V2.0®« Test
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.
