It seems that XML standards like OAG are capable of supporting general business processes like billing or sales order creation. What XML standard exists out there that deals with needs of utilities industry such as meter reading?
Thank you for the links. The links seem to point me to the SAP services. What my question is about is more on the messaging that contains the data to be consumed by the service. As an example the meter reading. There is a service that accepts meter readings and needs say meter #, meter reading, when was it read and by whom. The system that originates this information should put it in an XML message whose standard we want to control within the company. For many transactions we can use OAG, but for information like this example, I have not stumbled upon an open XML standard that can be loaded into XI (.xsd) and that can be used within the company as a semantical/canonical standard.
Perhaps I am not thinking about this correctly. WSDL describes this particular service for SAP. If we were to use the same data used for meter reading service for some other purpose (another service (non SAP) or just pure data transfer from point A to point B), the XSD could be used as basis for a custom message should the other purpose require that this message be customized. We surely would arrive at canonical/semantic standard, but it would be just within our company. We would lose any potential benefit of using an open industry standard. Using SAP's WSDL to build a canonical format on our own is certainly an option out there but if there is an industry standard out there, that is preferable in my mind. Again, thank you for your thoughts on this, they are good data points in my thinking here.
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