NetLedger.com is releasing a whole new set of XML schemas for A2A
(application to application) integration and ecommerce, over the internet.
It is called smbXML, Small and Midsized Business XML.
This includes the usual purchase order, invoice, bill payment, etc.
similar to Ariba cXML, Commerce One xCBL, BASDA, etc. but it also
has many more including the general journal, as well as methods to
invoke all kinds of edits and updates on lists and transactions. wheee!
You're not gonna believe this, but NetLedger has already built the
XML interfaces. These new interfaces will allow users to send and
receive every kind of transaction that can exist in NetLedger,
to/from their accounting system on the server. I have been predicting
that they would be the first webledger with open interfaces.
They say they're going to stream these XML over HTTP or middleware
with their partners *and users*. In other words you will be able
to click into an upload or download screen and send an unlimited
number of rows of transactions in a single transmission.
There isn't any other General Ledger or general accounting provider
besides NetLedger that has anything resembling these open XML interfaces.
Not for $5/month or $500/month. Nobody. No Desktop vendors on Drive C:
and no Client/Server vendors on the LAN. There's no other open XML
schema that has a full set of XML schemas, besides OAGIS which is
mostly used in MRP and some ERP settings.
SMBXML is priceless, for every other internet BSP (business service
provider) who doesn't have a complete integrated solution. It enables
any collection of BSPs to form up and integrate with each other and
with a General Ledger back end.
This is huge for device people, cash register vendors, you name it.
They can shoot XML transactions all day long or upload them in a
batch at end of day.
And priceless for users. We can choose best of breed providers other
than NetLedger for your billing, payroll, web storefront, timesheet, and
fifty other things and NetLedger will be happy to maintain your general
ledger. When you conduct business on the other website it will
be submitted to your accounting system for review and posting. No
more duplicate work. This *proves* they're not trying to build a
lock-in portal.
This is also of immediate importance to every user who has been
worried about getting their data *into* NetLedger, or *out* of
NetLedger for backup, or in case they change to a different platform.
You can literally download every bit of data, using the worlds most
open and portable data language, XML.
This is gonna be huge. Look at their release at http://www.smbxml.org
It was up there for awhile Friday anyway. Here are the counts:
114 occurrences of <!ENTITY %
78 occurrences of <!ELEMENT --these define the documents, and
and various requests.
73 occurrences of <!ATTLIST -- you can see most elements hav attribs.
116 #REQUIRED attributes --attributes contain all the parameters etc.
279 #IMPLIED attributes inside the documents, records etc.
It looks like they're going to contribute the schemas to the typical
'org' to include third party vendors, and make it into an open standard.
The license text already basically says the whole wide world can use
the schemas. Wow... good work guys!
This is the beginning of the end, of the age of lock-in and standalone
desktop accounting systems and good riddance,
TOdd
* Todd F. Boyle CPA http://www.GLDialtone.com/
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland WA (425) 827-3107
* XML accounting, WebLedgers, ASPs, GL dialtone, whatever it takes
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