We all know that PEPPOL focuses on e-procurement, but it is no secret that pan-European adoption of e-invoicing is also high on the project’s agenda. The technological PEPPOL developments have taken another step towards this goal. And this all thanks to Norwegian SendRegning.
They have modified the sample code of a PEPPOL Access Point. Well, what is so important about this modification? Plug and Play PEPPOL Access Point is now available Open Source because of it, which means that anyone can use the service on the internet from now on. In other words, PEPPOL now serves to make life easier.
We’re calling her Oxalis
The people at SendRegning developed the source code as a result of a competition the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment launched for the development of a plug and play reference implementation of a PEPPOL Access Point. The name of the code is Oxalis and it can be installed in just a few hours. It is now easier for service providers or any company interested to set up an Access Point and connect to the European PEPPOL network. This is especially convenient for the Norwegians themselves, since the Norwegian government has made e-invoicing mandatory to the public sector from July 2012. Awesome.
Standardisation
Steinar Cook, CEO SendRegning, explains the underlying idea of the adaptation his company has developed for PEPPOL:
- “We have been waiting for something like PEPPOL since 2003 in the eBusiness domain and we want to support PEPPOL, making it work in the easiest way possible. It is imperative for PEPPOL to have strict standardisation and avoid differing implementations at the country level. For this reason we developed the plug and play reference implementation of a PEPPOL Access Point and made it available to the Open Source community.”
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