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• Data models are designed syntax neutral. This permits their subsequent representation in different syntactical data structures
• Development of messages, core components, glossaries, or data dictionaries standardize the use of business definitions
• Additional comments and annotations, on the definition level and also on the application level
• Cross-check between data model and B2B, or XML guideline for mapping consistency
• Derivation of implementation guidelines from a model
• Automatic generation of XML schemas from a model
• Export / import of a model to / from MS Excel, Rational Rose, and XMI

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• Easy access and deeper understanding of XML business schemas thanks to the schema browser
• Clear picture of the content in the structure to be implemented
• Essential XML business languages available ready for use
• Development of business schemas
• Schema can be enhanced with additional comments and annotations, on the definition level and also on the application level. This enables the creation of custom schemas
• Data integration through mapping between XML and classic EDI structures, and among each other
• Migrating conventional EDI structures to XML

   
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• Experience shows that the restriction to just one data format hardly ever works out. The integration of different data formats is therefore a vital requirement for most companies.
• The mapping function supports the integration of different data formats of XML formats as well as EDI formats.
• GEFEG.FX includes Thesaurus mapping, that is mapping with identifiers
• Wherever the processes of planning data mapping and technically implementing it are structurally or organizationally separate, or the mapping needs to be documented, the mapping planner is the 1st choice.

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• Access to experts' knowledge of business processes and their structures incorporated in B2B standards
• Wide range of national and international B2B standards available in high quality: * UN/EDIFACT * ANSI X12 * EANCOM^® * EDIFICE * EDIFOR * ODETTE * VDA * SAP IDoc * SES * TRADACOMS * and others
• Comfortable, user-friendly browser improves understanding of B2B standards
• Design tool for custom data formats, like flat-files, or other in-house structures
• Management of all B2B standards used in a company in a single tool

   
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• Company-specific description of standard data formats in implementation guidelines
• Designing, managing, servicing the use of company-specific messages, or data formats, in implementation guidelines
• Derived from B2B standards
• Based on flat-file, or other in-house fomats
• Time saving single source principle - the guideline is the basic source for validation and tests, for output in human readable documentation and transfer to B2B production systems
• Easy migration to a new release of a B2B standard
• Also serves as the main source of information for all the details of the implemented message

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• Validation and testing of messages
• Quality assurance with compliance checks and validation
• Comprehensive tests for syntax AND business logic
• Comfortable test routines
• Time and effort saving test procedures
• High data quality before the production starts
• Validation and test functions are also available as web service
• Simple generation of test data

   
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• Transfer of implementation guidelines to EAI / B2B Systems, like translators, mapping workbenches, etc.
• Securing data quality as well as saving time and effort through seamless data flow
• Transfer of source and target data
• Wide range of export modules, and adaptors available

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• Representation of messages and test data in human-readable form
• Visualization improves the understanding for staff members with less IT focus
• Ready-made standard reports for different requirements
• Custom reports for individual requirements
• Easy publication and distribution of guidelines via web or CD-ROM
• Corporate design rules can be applied