Electronic Data Interchange and Standardization

Christian Huemer (), Philipp Liegl () and Marco Zapletal ()
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Christian Huemer: TU Vienna
Philipp Liegl: ecosio GmbH
Marco Zapletal: ecosio GmbH

Chapter 15 in Handbook of e-Tourism, 2022, pp 343-371 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Electronic data interchange (EDI) is the application-to-application exchange of business-related data between different organizations based on a structured machine-readable format. In this chapter, we will outline the concepts of EDI and its relevance for tourism. Thereby, we first introduce the UN/EDIFACT standards which were the first ones to be used for EDI. Since this book targets IT in tourism, we next describe the standards of the Open Travel Alliance (OTA) which are most commonly used to realize EDI exchanges in the tourism domain today. In order to realize an EDI partnership between organizations, it is also critical to define how the messages are delivered from the message sender to the message receiver. Since service providers are commonly involved in EDI message exchanges, we will have a closer look on their services and explain how these services facilitate EDI partnerships. In particular, we discuss WebEDI which specifically targets small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Finally, we provide a list of critical issues that have to be met in any EDI project.

Keywords: Electronic data interchange (EDI); UN/EDIFACT; Open travel alliance (OTA); Business-to-business communications; Inter-organizational systems; Application integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-48652-5_21

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