Objectives of knowledge management

Chapter 3
Managing digital business infrastructure
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Secure document exchange – this is not an integral feature of XML but has been built 
into this application.
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Automation for complex business processes.
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Management and monitoring of business processes.
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Automated trading partner management.
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Reduced complexity in development.
Another widely adopted application of XML is ebXML (www.ebxml.org). This stand-
ard has been coordinated by Oasis (www.oasis-open.org) which is an international 
not- for- profit consortium for promoting Internet standards. The original project was 
intended to define business exchange using five standards:
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business processes
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core data components
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collaboration protocol agreements
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messaging
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registries and repositories.
Oasis defines three types of transaction that form business processes: