EDI Glossary : E
EAI: Enterprise Application Integration. A term used to describe software tools that support integrating applications across a company or enterprise.
EAN: International Article Numbering Association.
EANCOM: A subset of EDIFACT messages, developed by GS1, to allow business partners to exchange commercial documents in a simple, accurate and cost effective manner.
ebMS. ebXML Messaging Services. The secure, reliable method of transmitting electronic data defined as part of the ebXML specifications. It can use a variety of low level transmission protocols including HTTP and SMTP.
ebXML: A standard for an e-business framework that enables enterprises of any size, in any location to meet and conduct business electronically. Developed under the auspices of OASIS and UN/CEFACT
EDI: See Electronic Data Interchange.
EDItEUR: The trade standards body for the global book and serials supply chains.
EDItX: Transaction document formats in XML that mirror and extend the functionality of existing X12, TRADACOMS and EDIFACT messages for the book trade and library sectors.
EDI Translation: The conversion of application data to and from a standard format.
EDI Translator: Computer software used to perform the conversion of application data to and from a standard. Usually licensed rather than developed in-house. May have subsystems for mapping, auditing, and document management.
EDIFACT: Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport. The international EDI Standard as developed through the United Nations.
EDIFICE: B2B industry group in high tech and electronics industries in Europe. Also EDIFACT EDI standard subset for those industries.
EDI over the Internet: A protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force. Originally developed to transmit Electronic Data Interchange via email over the Internet. Applicability Statement 1, the first version, used Simple Mail Transport Protocol as the transport protocol, bouncing direction to get to the end connection. Applicability Statement 2, the current version, uses Hypertext Transport Protocol to build a tunnel to the recipient address, establishes the connection, and then sends the information in a secured environment assuring the sender of receipt.
EFT (Electronic funds transfer): Electronic payment in which funds are transferred between bank accounts at different financial institutions.
EIAJ: Japanese EDI standard.
Electronic Commerce: Conducting business between computers through the use of digital exchange.
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): The computer-to-computer transfer of business transaction information using standard, industry-accepted message formats.
Electronic Mail: The process of sending, receiving, storing, and/or forwarding messages in digital form via telecommunication.
Element: The smallest item of information in the standard.
Element Delimiter: Single character delimiter; follows the segment identifier and each data element in a segment except the last.
Element Reference Number: The number that identifies each element from the segment diagram with its corresponding definition in the data dictionary.
Email: The standard abbreviation for Electronic Mail.
Encryption: The process of transforming clear text (data in its original form) into cipher text (the output of a cryptographic algorithm) for security or privacy.
End-User: Anyone who uses a computer system or its output.
Envelope: The combination of header, trailer, and sometimes other control segments, that define the start and end of an individual EDI message.
Enterprise Application Integration: The use of middleware to integrate the application programs, databases, and legacy systems involved in an organization’s critical business processes.
Enterprise Resource Planning: Packaged software systems using database technology and a single interface to control all the information related to a company’s business, including customer, product, employee, and financial data.
ENX: The IP-based network for the European automotive industry.
EPC: Electronic product code. A 96-bit number whose format is governed by EPCglobal, a subsidiary of the GS1 standards body. Each RFID tag will contain a unique EPC.
EPCglobal: A subsidiary of the EAN.UCC international standards body which governs the format of EPCs.
Evaluated Receipts Settlement: Method for initiating payment to a supplier that replaces the invoice. Used primarily in the auto industry. First the price is agreed upon by a blanket or other purchase order. Next, a material release tells the supplier the quantity to deliver. An advance ship notice confirms the quantity actually being delivered, and payment is triggered upon receipt.
Event-Driven EDI: Applications and translator exchanging message sets as soon as they are created or received.
eXtensible Markup Language: Extensible Markup Language is designed to improve the functionality of the Web by providing more flexible and adaptable information identification. It is called extensible because it is not a fixed format like Hypertext Markup Language (a single, predefined markup language). Instead, Extensible Markup Language is actually a metalanguage (a language for describing other languages) that allows individuals to customize markup languages for limitless different types of documents. Extensible Markup Language can do this because it is written in Standard Generalized Markup Language, the international standard metalanguage for text markup systems.
