PEPPOL focuses on the critical e-Procurement components to solve interoperability issues in Europe. It offers:
- PEPPOL Business Interoperability Specifications for eCatalogues, eOrdering, eInvoicing (all based on UBL messaging) as well as eAttestation (VCD) and eSignature validation
- Network specifications for open and secure documents exchange
- Network Governance through the PEPPOL Transport Infrastructure Agreements
In March 2014 the OpenPEPPOL association, set up to ensure long term sustainability of PEPPOL had one hundred member organisations from the public and private sector, from 18 European countries, including Russia and USA.
Ger Clancy of IBM has created a series of videos explaining the PEPPOL value proposition for private sector enterprises as well as the public sector.