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.

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