GEFEG.FX - Competence for B2B, eC/eB, EDI and flat file formats

	Axway Software GmbH supplies their customers with GEFEG.FX as a supplementary software tool. The special module for the Axway TradeSync Integration Manager allows GEFEG.FX implementation guides to be exported to the Axway edi system. Definitions for source format, target format and mapping are created for both incoming and outgoing EDI transactions.
	The EDIFOR (Electronic Data Interchange Forwarding) subset for transport was developed by the working group EDIFOR for which the BSL (German Association for Transport and Logistics) acted as chair. As a sales partner to the BSL GEFEG maintains the EDIFOR subset with GEFEG.FX which is also distributed by GEFEG.
	GS1 Germany, the German GS1 organisation, and GEFEG maintain and distribute the German-English version of EANCOM^®, the world-wide most widely spread EDIFACT subset.
	Since 1994, DIN Software AG has been shipping the German translation of the UN/EDIFACT standard database with GEFEG.FX. The UN/EDIFACT standard database is maintained by DIN's Office Standards Committee. GEFEG has also initiated an XML/EDI recommendation which resulted in the DIN E16557-5, now also made public as ISO Draft Standard 20625. Furthermore GEFEG supports the DIN with their business expertise in working groups. Currently one of GEFEG's Senior Consultants acts as chair of the working group "XML for Electronic Business".
	DISA is the publisher of the X.12 standard. GEFEG has been a member of DISA since 1998 and takes part in the ASC X.12 development as a voting member. DISA has included GEFEG in the "Tools for Members Program" for Standards Development. More The CICA Editor is the special GEFEG.FX variant for CICA developers.
	GS1 Switzerland is the national distributor for GEFEG.FX. In Switzerland GEFEG.FX is usually shipped together with the EANCOM^® subset which represents the specific information needs of the consumer goods industry in EDIFACT.
	EDIFICE is the European B2B forum for the electronics industry. GEFEG has been a member of EDIFICE since 1999. The EDIFICE EDIFACT subset is maintained with GEFEG.FX and published on the EDIFICE web site using the GEFEG.FX Publisher module. In August 2001, the EIDX - the (American) Electronics Industry Data Exchange Association - have adopted the EDIFICE EDIFACT guidelines within their partnership with EDIFICE. This means that EIDX members also gain access to EDIFICE guidelines.
	EDIBAU e.V. and GEFEG offer all interested software suppliers two converter program modules to convert files from the GAEB standard (German construction industry data interchange format) to EDIFACT and vice versa.
	IONA and GEFEG have agreed on a world-wide cooperation. Their common goal will be the development of web-based solutions for classic and XML based B2B standard data. Among other things the cooperation also includes the integration of GEFEG.FX in IONA products.
	GEFEG.FX is used by the Joint Syntax Working Group (JSWG) to maintain and publish EDIFACT syntax data (ISO 9735, Application Level Syntax Rules). The JSWG Homepage is maintained by GEFEG and hosted on their internet server.
	In cooperation with Microsoft GEFEG has created the DEDIG XML/EDI Demo using BizTalk Server 2000. The demo application shows the purchasing process of a large enterprise with its SME supplier. The output of the order is generated as an XML file. Though only available in German at the moment the advantages of connecting proven EDI solutions with XML opportunities is showing. GEFEG.FX now includes a new interface to the Microsoft^® BizTalk™ Server with which the source and target format descriptions and the underlying mapping required by the Microsoft^® BizTalk™ Server 2000 are generated.
	MLC supplies GEFEG.FX to its customers as a supplementary software tool. The MLC interface makes it possible to pass GEFEG.FX standard data to the MLC converter.
	The Open Applications Group , Inc. (OAGi) is a not-for-profit consortium focusing on best practices and process based XML content for e-Business and Application Integration. The mission of the Open Applications Group is to define and encourage the adoption of a unifying standard for e-Business and Application Software interoperability that reduces customer cost and time to deploy solutions. The Open Applications Group supports ebXML and is taking several steps forward to adopt and converge it with their own body of work. In cooperation with OAGi GEFEG has developed the specialized standards browser product for the OAGi Specification, the OAGIS 8.0 Browser.
	GEFEG.FX exports specifications to the Harbinger Mapping Workbench. Customers of both Inovis (formerly Harbinger) and GEFEG can smoothly integrate their guidelines in their EDI systems.
	The export of B2B standard data and GEFEG.FX guides into Perwill's eBizManager is supported by a special interface. By using GEFEG.FX and Perwill's eBizManager, Perwill's customers gain access to numerous B2B standard data via this interface.Perwill and GEFEG have also signed a cooperation agreement about the marketing and sales of GEFEG.FX on the UK market.
	SAP AG has been using GEFEG.FX since 1994 as the supplier of the UN/EDIFACT standard database of the DIN for the R/2 SAP EDI product. Thanks to the generous cooperation of SAP, SAP IDocs can be imported into GEFEG.FX. This applies to both RSEIDOC3 reports and Meta-IDocs. The SAP IDocs are then available to the GEFEG.FX user as a standard reference, for documenting IDoc interfaces and for testing IDoc messages.
	Seeburger AG is one of the leading suppliers of EDI and EAI solutions. GEFEG and Seeburger signed a cooperation agreement in January, 2003, and GEFEG.FX is now available through our new partner. Moreover, a jointly developed interface now connects the GEFEG.FX with the Seeburger Business Integration Converter. This interface makes it possible to transfer EDI application guidelines - descriptions of B2B standards documented using GEFEG.FX - to the Seeburger BIC as format descriptions, with no further processing or programming effort required. GEFEG also offers the Seeburger TLA, which is used to transfer EDIFACT message types from GEFEG.FX to the WinELKE converter interface.
	The Siemens EDIFACT Standard (SES) is developed using GEFEG.FX. Siemens uses GEFEG.FX worldwide to describe specific application interfaces based on SES, to generate test data and to test EDI transaction files.
	GEFEG.FX has interfaces to export source and target format to the EDI subsystem SEDI-GEN/CON V3 and V4. In addition to the EDI format file (.MOD), the software also provides the basis for the translation tables (.TRL).
	GEFEG.FX exports specifications for the GENTRAN:UNIX product.
	Michael Dill of GEFEG serves as the official German delegate to the UN Directory Audit Team (DAT), the working group responsible for the release of UN/EDIFACT standard data.
	The German Automotive industry association VDA publishes recommendations for data communications among manufacturers and their suppliers. GEFEG.FX has been selected by VDA as the tool for migration from traditional data communications standards to EDIFACT message types. All VDA recommendations for data communications are available in electronic form with GEFEG.FX.