The Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA) invites vendor companies to provide X12 member and end-user tools for utilizing and interacting with X12's architecture - Context Inspired Component Architecture (CICA) - for generating XML business messages. To complement this CICA Development Tool Program, DISA will offer a Vendor Summit in spring 2005 to provide its vendor participants with added visibility opportunities and education on early adoption of X12 CICA messages.The CICA Development Tool Program and Vendor Summit stems from requirements outlined by the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12's Convergence and Outreach Task Group, chartered to create collaborative relationships with other organizations to leverage the expertise of technology users and providers. The tool program will provide a secure web application that serves as an entry point to-and-from the CICA database and vendor application, which can be accessed by X12 members, end-users and vendors."We at DISA are pleased to provide creative channels for our X12 members and the communities they support to drive standard and technology adoption and innovation," said DISA President Jerry Connors.X12 members and end-users will be able to easily deploy a program designed to fully utilize and interact with the CICA framework, making their message development and implementation more user friendly. In return, vendor participants will receive the opportunity to brand their tools to more than 3,000 X12 individuals and 1000s of prospective members."This is a perfect venue for ASC X12 and other organizations to work toward the economic goal of harmonization and interoperability of global standards," said ASC X12 Chair Ralph Berwanger. "As our vendor program grows, so will the adoption and convergence of both vertical and cross-domain standards."This program is created with X12 members, end-users and vendors in mind to drive standards harmonization, to reduce vendor systems interoperability costs, and to create a neutral environment for XML standards convergence. www.X12.org www.DISA.org

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