This is the official community gathering place and information resource for the OASIS UBL (ISO/IEC 19845) International Standard. UBL defines a royalty-free library of standard electronic XML business documents such as purchase orders and invoices.
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On 15th April 1912 the passenger ship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank with the loss of nearly 1500 lives. Some claim that communication failures were as significant as anything else in scale of the tragedy.
According to Neal McEwen writing in the Telegraph Office Magazine…
A few years ago I posted an article about the confusion surrounding standardizing on electronic invoice formats in Europe[1]. I am pleased to note that the European Commission has not been idle. On March 11 2014, after several years of conferences, expert groups, forums and workshops, the European Parliament approved a new directive on electronic invoicing in public procurement[2].
There has been increasing interest in the standards community about the value and use of conceptual data models to support messaging standards – separating the conceptual business view from the technical implementation artifacts. This article supports this view using UBL as a reference.
Please find attached two presentations, kindly submitted by their author, Helle Schade-Sørensen, reflecting their assessment of the use of OASIS UBL as the document format for a nationwide einvoicing effort.
Note there is a third presentation dated 2010 "E-Invoicing in Denmark-the facts" from her and mounted publicly here: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/36397 where on slide 2 she cites a savings of EUR500million over the first five years of using OASIS UBL.
