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The role of UBL in disintermediating procurement and transportation processes

G. Ken Holman Peer-to-peer blockchain users have long accepted (or leveraged in the case of drug dealers and ransom seekers) the anonymity provided in transactions and the lack of a paper trail. Blockchain users are increasingly seeking to use the blockchain for legal business trading, meeting their obligations for documenting the procurement and transportation steps of a transaction. UBL provides the means to do so in an internationally-standardized XML document vocabulary.

20 June 2017 Read

Developing open business information exchange documents

G. Ken Holman OASIS is a good place to create open business information exchange standards. This article gives you some pointers on how to go about doing that.

21 February 2017 Read

What is UBL?

G. Ken Holman A comprehensive introduction to the OASIS UBL standard, an open, customizable and extensible XML vocabulary for business documents.

1 January 2017 Read