1. The document summarizes a meeting about establishing an e-invoicing gateway website. 2. It discusses setting up country information managers to provide country-specific e-invoicing details on the site. 3. The site would also include a knowledge base with wiki, issue lists, and best practices, as well as a community for sharing experiences.

1. eInvoicing Public Meeting
Brussels, 19 June 2008
WWW.E-INVOICE-GATEWAY.NET
Georg Lindsberger
Helmut Aschbacher

2. Situation Analysis
Country specific activities but no European wide common web
platform (conclusion CEN/ISSS eInv1)
CEN/ISSS Workshop E-Invoicing offers:
Experts
Business plan
Output (CWAs)
Good overview about activities in several EU countries
E-Invoice Gateway = Toolset
Content will be generated and published by experts of the
CEN/ISSS Workshop
E-Invoice Gateway: The place for the E-Invoicing Community
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3. WG – Members/CIM
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4. Agenda
1. Mission of the E-Invoice Gateway
1. Task CWA 1
2. Overview about strategy
2. Implementations
1. Country Information Manager
2. Knowledge Base
3. Community of Practice
4. Functionalities of website
3. Road Map
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5. 1.1 Mission
http://www.e-invoice-gateway.net
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6. 1.1 Mission
I. Supporting to build up the planned website (e-invoicing gateway)
II. Supporting the collection and description of best practices country by country of electronic
invoices and national implementation guidelines
III. Supporting a network of national e-invoice forums to foster communication and exchange of
national best practices in electronic invoices
IV. Interoperability with other CWAs
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7. 1.2 Overview about strategy
E-Invoice-Gateway.net
List of organizations Country related Knowledge Base Community of practice (CoP)
in the field of information -WIKI (Workgroup 5)
E-Invoicing (European wide) -technical -Issue List (Workgroup 2)
-legal -Good Practice Guidelines (Workgroup 2) Annual E-Invoice Event (Papers/Best
-organizational
E-Invoicing aspects Practice)
Idea is based on the event “eXperience” by UAS NW [1]
Country Information Managers (CIMs)
Support: CAMPUS 02 Graz – University of Applied Sciences,
Department of IT & IT Marketing
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[1] http://de.experience-online.ch/cases/experience.nsf ©2005 CEN – all rights reserved 7/21

8. Agenda
1. Mission of the E-Invoice Gateway
1. Task CWA 1
2. Overview about strategy
2. Implementations
1. Country Information Manager
2. Knowledge Base
3. Community of Practice
4. Functionalities of website
3. Road Map
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Brussels, 19 June 2008
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9. 2.1 Country Information Manager
E-Invoice-Gateway.net
List of organizations Country related Knowledge Base Community of practice (CoP)
in the field of information -WIKI (Workgroup 5)
E-Invoicing (European wide) -technical -Issue List (Workgroup 2)
-legal -Good Practice Guidelines (Workgroup 2) Annual E-Invoice Event (Papers/Best
-organizational
E-Invoicing aspects Practice)
Idea is based on the event “eXperience” by UAS NW [1]
Country Information Managers (CIMs)
Support: CAMPUS 02 Graz - UAS, Department of IT & IT Marketing
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Brussels, 19 June 2008
[1] http://de.experience-online.ch/cases/experience.nsf ©2005 CEN – all rights reserved 9/21

10. 2.1 Tasks of CIM
Supporting the CEN/ISSS WS eINV2
- in identifying activities/companies/organizations in the field of E-
Invoicing in the own country and to inform those parties
about this European wide non-commercial activity and invite them
to participate on the internet platform
- in case of someone needing more information about this CEN
activity being able to inform about the mission of the platform (native
speaking contact for requests of own country)
- in doing mentorship (in terms of usability engineering aspects
and continuous improvement process aspects)
- In identifying country based technical, legal and organizational
information and distribution on website
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11. 2.1 Country Information Manager
Austria: Italy:
Gerhard Laga Liliana Fratini Passi
Belgium: Romania:
Freddy De Vos Emilian Zahan
Sweden:
Finland:
Anna Nordén
Martti From
Greece:
France:
Nikolaos A. Kyrloglou
Gwenaëlle BERNIER
Germany: Spain & Portugal:
Stefan Engel-Flechsig Manuel Pereira Ramos
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12. 2.2 Knowledge Base
E-Invoice-Gateway.net
List of Country related Knowledge Base Community of practice
organizations information -WIKI (Workgroup 5) (CoP)
in the field of -technical -Issue List (Workgroup 2)
E-Invoicing -legal -Good Practice Guidelines Annual E-Invoice Event
(European wide) -organizational (Workgroup 2)
E-Invoicing aspects (Papers/Best Practice)
Idea is based on the event “eXperience” by UAS NW [1]
Country Information Managers
(CIMs)
Support: CAMPUS 02 Graz - UAS, Department of IT & IT Marketing
eInvoicing Public Meeting
Brussels, 19 June 2008
[1] http://de.experience-online.ch/cases/experience.nsf ©2005 CEN – all rights reserved 12/21

13. 2.3 Community of Practice
E-Invoice-Gateway.net
List of Country related Knowledge Base Community of practice
organizations information -WIKI (Workgroup 5) (CoP)
in the field of -technical -Issue List (Workgroup 2)
E-Invoicing -legal -Good Practice Guidelines Annual E-Invoice Event
(European wide) -organizational (Workgroup 2)
E-Invoicing aspects (Papers/Best Practice)
Idea is based on the event “eXperience” by UAS NW [1]
Country Information Managers
(CIMs)
Support: CAMPUS 02 Graz - UAS, Department of IT & IT Marketing
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[1] http://de.experience-online.ch/cases/experience.nsf ©2005 CEN – all rights reserved 13/21

14. 2.3 Community of Practice Concept
Community of Practice (CoP)
in E-Invoicing [1]
Annually
Call for Best Call for Case Call for
Practice Studies Papers
Preselection* / Preparation of
Best Practice/Case Studies/Papers
Annual Annual Database on
E-Invoice EVENT publication Website
* Members of the board: CIMs/Experts of CEN/ISSS eINV WS/Academic staff
[1] Idea is based on the Event “eXperience” by UAS NW – Prof. Christian TANNER; [1] http://de.experience-online.ch/cases/experience.nsf
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15. 2.4 Functionalities of website
1 Organizations
(self enlisting)
2 Knowledge Base
-WIKI
-Issue List
-Good Practice
Guidelines
1 2 -Country related
information
3 3 Events
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16. 2.4 Functionality of website
4
4 Country Information
Managers
(CIMs)
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17. Agenda
1. Mission of the E-Invoice Gateway
1. Task CWA 1
2. Overview about strategy
2. Implementations
1. Country Information Managers
2. Knowledge Base
3. Community of Practice
4. Functionalities of website
3. Road Map
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18. Roadmap 1/3
Results: Results: Results:
-Project plan -Website Mockup -CIMs identified
-Strategy -Strategy approval -technical administration
-Goals/non Goals -Goals/non Goals of CIMs: done
-discussion: „eXperience“ Community
Outcome: Outcome: of Practice [1] by Prof. Tanner for the
-Mindmap (permanent -Establishing of CIMs implementation of a Community of
in progress) Practice in E-Invoicing
-discussion: technical administration of
organization management
Outcome:
-Establishing of CIMs
-CoP Approach for E-Invoicing
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[1] http://de.experience-online.ch/cases/experience.nsf ©2005 CEN – all rights reserved 18/21

19. Roadmap 2/3
Results: Plan: Plan:
-9 CIMs / 3 CIMs waiting for affirmation -Website (technical aspects)
Website (technical aspect):
-Administration (programming) of Community of Practice: done
-CIMs: done
Organisation self-enlisting: done -search functionality: done
-Organizations: done
- Event Management: done
-country related information
- WIKI for WG 2: setup
about technical, legal
-Permanent progress on
organizational aspects: done
Discussed and cleared on 14.5.: Content collection (all areas)
-WG 2 SG2 template: test
-Clearance for the organization of data for the Website
phase done
regarding technical, legal and
organizational aspects of
E-Invoicing on the website
TO DO:
-Clearance of Community of Practice -Clearance about search
Model functionality
-WG 2 – SG 2 functionality of templates -CoP details clearance
and processes (customization) eInvoicing Public Meeting
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20. Roadmap 3/3
Plan:
-Website (all technical aspects):
done
E-Invoice gateway is launched.
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21. Thank you for your attention!
Information/contact:
Georg Lindsberger
georg.lindsberger@campus02.at
Helmut Aschbacher
helmut.aschbacher@campus02.at
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