Transactions, technologies and trends

Author: Per Holmlund

Insights on transactions, technologies and trends and news on product updates. Learn more about how to improve processes and how to use transactional data for operational excellence — from e-invoicing, e-ordering, and Peppol, to AI, B2B e-commerce, and financial data management.

The shift from traditional paper invoicing through PDFs to electronic invoicing (e-invoicing) marks a new paradigm of modern business operations. In their latest market research report, Billentis defines this evolving market, its characteristics, and definitions.

EN 16931 is the European standard for electronic invoicing and the basis for the Peppol BIS specifications.

RosettaNet is a non-profit consortium that develops and promotes standardized electronic business interfaces for supply chain operations.

EDIFACT, or UN/EDIFACT, stands is an international standard developed by the United Nations for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

A flat file in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a plain text file used to exchange data between different systems in a structured format.

cXML (Commerce eXtensible Markup Language) is a standardized protocol for the electronic communication of business messages.