Project Pyxis

An R&D project on "A Business Process and Information Interoperability Platform Based on Open Standards" started in November 2003. This project, coined Pyxis, was funded by a HK$14M (US$ 1.8M) grant from the Hong Kong Government's Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF). In addition, industry sponsorships of $5.3M (US$ 680K) were received from COL Limited, The Dairy Farm Group, ICO Limited, Microsoft, MTR Corporation, Oracle, Software AG, Sun Microsystems, and Visual Paradigm. (View list of sponsors and supporters) This project was completed in July 2006.

Business needs for productivity enhancement are increasingly driving integration and process automation. To achieve business process integration, enterprise applications or systems, which perform different business functions within and across an organizational boundary, need to be interoperable. Standardization on electronic business documents and processes is the key to ensure interoperability.

Based on open standards and international best practices in the R&D, Project Pyxis delivered an XML Schema Modelling Suite and a Business Process (BP) Design Suite. These deliverables support the process-driven, standards-based paradigm centering on XML and Web Services.

These deliverables could be applied in these areas and applications:

• Logistics,


• Supply chain management,


• e-government,


• Cross-border trading and,


• Communicable disease information exchange.

Technology Framework