First public and private PEPPOL nodes up and running in Italy
Intercent-ER, the regional agency for the electronic markets development of Italy’s region Emilia-Romagna, and Gruppo Tesi, a leading Italian service provider and system integrator, have completed their efforts to establish the first two Access Points (APs) and Service Metadata Publishers (SMPs) in Italy, promoting their adoption during the production pilot phase. “I am pleased to see the establishment of both a public and a private PEPPOL node in Italy. This opens the way for both cross community eProcurement and cross border exchange of PEPPOL defined business documents, and marks an important step forward for PEPPOL in Southern Europe”, says PEPPOL’s Project ...
How Electronic Invoicing helps to reduce the risk of fraud
As in the paper invoice environment, the real risk in the electronic invoicing process is not in the delivery of the data but in the matching, processing and payment of the invoices in the receiver’s system. A company can be a victim of fraudulent behaviour only if it does not have the appropriate controls in place. Security measures at the data transport level do not protect from fraudulent behaviours. If, for example, a company (or fraudster within that company) issues an e-invoice for products that have never been produced or with different bank account details, the security transport mechanism (for example ...
Cyber-Identity: Unique identification systems
Cyber-Identity: Unique identification systems for organisations and parts thereof (Draft version 1.8) CEN/ISSS Workshop on Cyber Identity The document gives guidance on unique identification systems. It covers organisational and operational rules and processes to enable interoperability across multiple organisation identification schemes. It comprehends an analysis of existing systems and proposes recommendations on how to achieve interoperability among them by using meta-identification systems. The focus is on unique identification systems used in Europe taking into account relevant international standardisation developments and on the usage of unique identifiers in open systems and user groups. For public comment until 27 July 2009. ftp://cenftp1.cenorm.be/PUBLIC/CWAs/e-Europe/Cyber_ID/CWA_CID_v1.8.pdf

