The technology of data warehousing, metadata driven systems, and metadata registries will continue to evolve rapidly and will be adapted to support generic e-business applications. The days of once off and expensive to maintain e-business solutions will soon be eclipsed by intelligent systems which are able to negotiate and navigate based on metadata in your business systems. Projects such as the COSMOS and IQML will deliver the ideas for these next generation solutions. Dimension EDI will be there to integrate these technologies into your business system to solve your business problem.

In addition to this, there is a great deal of activity on XML. There are emerging XML based standards for many business domains, Business organisations should follow the activities of the UBL (www.oasis-open.org) and the ebXML registry and repository (www.ebxml.org). Dimension EDI is involved with ebXML and UBL and is contributing actively to these standards, specifically in terms of metadata, multi-dimensional "tabular" data (often called "data cubes"), time series data, and the use of metadata registries