Services Industry Content Standardisation Council formed to develop services cataloging for the eOTD
On his recent visit to South Africa, Peter Benson, chairman of ECCMA announced the formation of a Content Standardization Council for services (SICSC) and ECCMA’a full support to this new council. This follows the announcement of Starnode to release the USC Services for possible inclusion in the eOTD as well as Peter Benson and Steve Arnett’s recent visit to South Africa. After lengthy discussion with Starnode as well as a representative of Sasol, Peter was convinced that the formation of the SICSC is the best way forward to ensure that industries needs are best met while ensuring compliance with all relevant ECCMA and ISO 8000 and that the USC services can be used as input in the SICSC process. Steve Arnett commented that this will take the eOTD a major leap forward.
Starnode has successfully developed the Universal Standard Catalog for Services (USC Services) and have used it with great success at a number of clients in South Africa and the Middle East. These implementations are in the petrochemical, telecommunications and mining industries. However, many of the USC Services templates are of a generic nature and is applicable to most companies. Some of these are of a technical nature, whilst others are standard office and corporate services such as office cleaning, painting, advertising and promotion, events management, consultation, security, etc.
The decision of Starnode to make the USC Services available as basis to the SICSC in the process of developing services implementation guides for the eOTD does provide an answer to many organizations that have a need to manage their services related spend in the same as their material purchases by means of standardized cataloging or codification. Identification guides for services are really lacking in the eOTD and hence the formation of the Services Industry Content Standardization Council.
The purpose of the council will be to build and maintain the eOTD Identification Guides for services and to develop associated services terminology for inclusion in the eOTD.
As Starnode is taking the leading role, all interested parties are invited to participate. Please contact Pieter Strydom at
info@starnode.com
About ECCMA:
Formed in April 1999; the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association has brought together thousands of experts from around the world and provides them a means of working together in the fair, open and extremely fast environment of the Internet to build and maintain the global, open standard dictionaries that are used to unambiguously label information. The existence of these dictionaries of labels allows information to be passed from one computer system to another with out losing meaning.
About Starnode:
STARNODE provides a wide range of content services covering classification, data extraction and data enrichment of electronic catalogs, material masters, service masters, and legacy data in data warehouses as well as supplier catalogs.
Starnode utilizes unique methodologies; technologies and StarKnow (the Starnode large reference database with rich Cataloged data), to enhance its cataloging quality and productivity allowing it to produce more than 70,000 enriched line items per month for the international market.
The Starnode Cataloging and Content creation services includes encoding data to the eOTD in compliance with ISO 22745 and ISO 8000 as well as providing a wide range of classifications including USC, UNSPSC, SMD, and NSC.
Through out its history, Starnode is known for its role in the development of world class cataloging standards and has developed a leading methodology for the cataloging of Services that leverages a company's investment in a well-structured Material Catalog.
Starnode also provides technology to support supplier adoption, from basic stand-alone systems to sophisticated Internet based software tools. The technology is Web based and its Object Orientated design makes upgrades and customizations low cost and reliable.
Starnode's International leadership in cataloging and content management is evident in the number of large data projects performed and its growing international client base that includes both buy side and sell side applications integrated with internal ERP systems and e-commerce Market Places. Starnode's extensive experience is backed by Pi-Log's comprehensive and powerful Ramis Catalog Management Software Suite.
