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Progress Software Embraces Open Industry Standards
Our goal is to help companies maximize the benefits of their IT infrastructure while minimizing its complexity and total cost of ownership. A big part of Progress' success has been its strong commitment to supporting industry standards. We work closely with our business partners and industry standards organizations so that we are delivering industry standards-based products and solutions that interface with the wide variety of business applications in today's heterogeneous business environment.
Below are some of the standards in Data Services that we participate in or support:
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ACORD, the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development, is the insurance industry's nonprofit standards developer, a resource for information about object technology, EDI, XML and electronic commerce in the United States and abroad. ACORD is a nonprofit association whose mission is to facilitate the development and use of standards for the insurance, reinsurance and related financial services industries. |
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ETIS is a membership-based organization which brings together the major telecommunications providers in Europe on key information and communication technology issues. ETIS enables its members to improve business performance by personal exchange of information on using ICT effectively.
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ISO is a worldwide federation of National Standards Bodies. International Standard ISO 20022 - UNIversal Financial Industry message scheme (abbreviated to UNIFI) was prepared by Technical Committee ISO TC68 Financial Services. The UNIFI standard provides the financial industry with a common platform for the development of messages in a standardized XML syntax. This flexible framework allows communities of users and message development organizations to define message sets according to an internationally agreed approach and to migrate to the use of common XML-based syntax. |
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SEPA, the Single Euro Payments Area, initiative for the European financial infrastructure involves the creation of a zone for the euro in which all electronic payments are considered domestic, and where a difference between national and intra-European cross border payments does not exist. The SEPA vision sees all citizens, companies and other economic actors with the ability to make and receive payments throughout the European Union from a single bank account, as easily and safely as they can within their own country today. Todays' financial institutions are mandated to support the SEPA initiative. |
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SWIFT, Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, operates a worldwide financial messaging network. Messages are securely and reliably exchanged between banks and other financial institutions. SWIFT also markets software and services to financial institutions, much of it for use on the SWIFTNet Network, and ISO 9362 bank identifier codes are popularly known as SWIFT codes. |
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The TM Forum is an industry association focused on transforming business processes, operations and systems for managing and monetizing on-line information, communications and entertainment services. TM Forum’s Solution Frameworks (NGOSS) provide a comprehensive “toolkit” that for years have helped Service Providers, Systems Integrators and their partners make smarter decisions around vendor choices and integration efforts. A key element of the Solution Frameworks is the Information Framework, commonly referred to as SID. The SID model is a unified common data model that provides a single number of terms of business objects included in basic business processes and also connections and relations between mentioned objects in telecommunications. John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect for the Communications Sector, Progress Software, is the co-chair of the TMF's SID Technical Program, the specification lead of the OSS/J Pricing API, and a member of the OSS/J order management Expert Group. Progress Software offers the DataXtend SID Model Browser which will jump-start your learning about the SID and speed your organization's adoption of this important industry standard.
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