What
a difference a year makes. At last years MIAA conference in
Melbourne you could count the LIXI members around the exhibition
booths using just one hand. This year you would be hard pressed
to find a booth without the LIXI Member logo proudly displayed.
Admittedly, success in LIXI based eCommerce is not measured
by the number of members but by the actual use of the standard.
Our last General Meeting in Sydney showed that the adoption
of the standard in production systems is on the increase and
the market is actively seeking standards based solutions for
the whole lending chain.
The story at the MIAA conference and the LIXI
June General Meeting was one of capitalising on the developments
to date and pushing the standard in new areas of the lending
chain. This was also the message from the recent LIXI survey,
which showed an overall satisfaction with the way LIXI was run
and an appetite to speed development.
Being driven by member requirements, the LIXI
technical groups were quick to respond with a restructure of
the standard and the creation of specific ontologies to cover
each key area of transactions in the lending chain. Mike Thanos
explained the changes to CAL and the roadmap so eloquently that
even the least technical members felt comfortable with the direction
development was headed.
One thing I encounter from time to time is the
labelling of people and concepts as either technical or business.
I’d like to take some of your time to stress that for quite
a while now this distinction has been quite invalid. Business
needs technology and technology needs business. The two should
be so closely intertwined that no amount of skill should be
able to distinguish where one starts or the other ends.
Is LIXI a technical standard or a business standard?
Are the LIXI members technical or business people? The correct
and only answer is that LIXI and its members are both. We cannot
afford to be one or the other for we will fail. This is why
we all need to be onboard and committed to make LIXI succeed.
Otherwise we’ll just allow IT history to repeat.
I can’t let this welcome end on a sad note
for LIXI breaks with old traditions and is successful. There
are many examples in LIXI of “business” people driving
technical working groups and vice versa. I can see business
and technology driving us together and I am sure so can you.
Why else would you be part of LIXI?
What
a difference a year makes. At last years MIAA conference in
Melbourne you could count the LIXI members around the exhibition
booths using just one hand. This year you would be hard pressed
to find a booth without the LIXI Member logo proudly displayed.
Admittedly, success in LIXI based eCommerce is not measured
by the number of members but by the actual use of the standard.
Our last General Meeting in Sydney showed that the adoption
of the standard in production systems is on the increase and
the market is actively seeking standards based solutions for
the whole lending chain.
