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History and governance

RosettaNet is an industry initiative for open business-process standards. This page explains the concepts, the organisations involved, and Singapore's adoption history.

What RosettaNet defines

RosettaNet standards focus on business-to-business (B2B) collaboration in the supply chain. They give trading partners common definitions so a purchase order or shipment notice means the same thing on both sides.

  • Extensible Markup Language (XML) — the structured text format used for RosettaNet messages.
  • Partner Interface Processes (PIPs) — definitions of specific business conversations between partners, including the messages and their sequence.
  • Business and technical dictionaries — shared vocabularies for business properties and product information.
  • RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF) — the rules for packaging, transporting and securing messages reliably.

Together, common message content, process choreography and reliable exchange allow partners to automate interactions with fewer misunderstandings.

Standard, technology and programme

A standard is an agreed specification. Implementation technology is the software and infrastructure an organisation uses to apply it. An industry programme is a coordinated effort — by industry, education or government — to help organisations adopt it. Successful adoption usually needs all three.

Relationships

Who's who

Four related but distinct parts of the landscape. This is not a legal hierarchy.

Global RosettaNet heritage

The original industry initiative that developed RosettaNet process standards for high-technology supply chains.

GS1 US

Hosts RosettaNet standards resources and documentation within its standards ecosystem.

GS1 global ecosystem

The wider family of GS1 identification, barcode and data-sharing standards used worldwide.

Singapore community and GS1 Singapore

GS1 Singapore administers the GS1 system nationally. RosettaNet Singapore is the local volunteer-led community documented on this site.

Timeline

A dated, source-backed history

  1. 2000 · Leadership

    Manoj Saxena joins the community

    Manoj Saxena joined the Singapore RosettaNet community as a committee member, later serving as vice-chair before becoming Chairman.

    Source: Supplied by RosettaNet Singapore

  2. 2002–2003 · Singapore adoption

    Capability-building and industry pilots

    The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) reported Singapore chapter activity, capability-building and industry pilots. A consultancy and service centre was established in October 2002, and e-learning launched in January 2003.

    Source: IDA Annual Report 2002–2003(opens in a new tab)

  3. March 2004 · Singapore adoption

    Collaborative High-Tech Manufacturing Plan

    IDA launched its Collaborative High-Tech Manufacturing Plan and reported supporting RosettaNet adoption and supply-chain integration. Targets from this period are historical and are not current programmes or grants.

    Source: IDA Annual Report 2003–2004(opens in a new tab)

  4. September 2004 · Singapore adoption

    RosettaNet Architecture Centre of Excellence at Nanyang Polytechnic

    A centre of excellence was established at Nanyang Polytechnic with industry participants including Cisco Systems, IBM, HP, Intel, NCS and Microsoft, supporting pilot solutions for SMEs and instructor-led certification courses.

    Source: Nanyang Polytechnic report (via Enterprise Singapore)(opens in a new tab)

  5. November 2004 – present · Leadership

    Manoj Saxena serves as Chairman

    Manoj Saxena has led RosettaNet Singapore as a volunteer Chairman since November 2004.

    Source: Supplied by RosettaNet Singapore

  6. March 2007 · Singapore adoption

    National projects with government, industry and education

    IDA announced nationally funded projects using RosettaNet digital standards, bringing together government, industry and educational institutions.

    Source: IDA speech, 21 March 2007(opens in a new tab)

  7. October 2007 · Singapore adoption

    TradeXchange cross-border trade exchange

    A government-funded national project used RosettaNet and related digital standards to support SMEs in cross-border trade, as reported by Singapore Customs.

    Source: Singapore Customs, inSync(opens in a new tab)

  8. 2020 · Singapore adoption

    Trade Trust and CIO research programmes

    RosettaNet Singapore promoted IMDA's Trade Trust blockchain initiative for cross-border trade and partnered on the Global CIO research insights programme and CIO awards.

    Source: RosettaNet Singapore programme presentations, 2020

  9. 7 April 2021 · Singapore adoption

    Future IT Summit Asia

    Global CIO Forum reported that its Future IT Summit Asia was delivered in collaboration with RosettaNet Singapore GS1, with Manoj Saxena opening the event and moderating a panel.

    Source: Global CIO Forum event report(opens in a new tab)

Exact dates for RosettaNet's global organisational transitions are omitted until reconciled against original records.

Governance

Committee and volunteers

RosettaNet Singapore is led by volunteers under the chairmanship of Manoj Saxena. Details of the committee, advisers and working-group leads will be published here once names and roles have been approved.

Help document Singapore's standards history

If you hold records, presentations or photographs from earlier RosettaNet activity in Singapore, we would like to hear from you.

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