[..] The so-called Standard Business Reporting regime has long been touted by the Australian Federal Government as a means to reduce the reporting burden on business by allowing company financial reports and tax returns to be machine-readable, removing manual processes and reducing errors by companies and government agencies [..] The use of SBR is also now compulsory for transferring member data between superannuation funds under the Superstream reforms [..]

Fujitsu announces the release of its ebMS3/AS4 messaging product for SuperStream. Building on its experience as a key member of the OASIS ebMS3/AS4 technical committee, this offering is a significant enhancement of the software which Fujitsu used in December 2010 interoperability tests for ebMS3/AS4. Together with Fujitsu's well established XWand SBR XBRL Processor it will help companies successfully implement the mandated requirements of SuperStream in a timely and economical way. 

 

15 February 2013 – The OASIS international open standards consortium announced the approval of version 1.0 of the Applicability Statement 4 (AS4) Profile of the ebXML Messaging Services (ebMS) 3.0 standard. Based on “just-enough” design principles, the Profile provides an open standard for the secure, payload-agnostic exchange of purchase orders, invoices, and other business-to-business documents using Web services. AS4 is now an official OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification.

Australian EDI Limited and Flame Computing Enterprises have integrated ozedi and the Flame Messaging Server to produce a SuperStream solution which is simple to implement for software developers, superannuation funds and employers.