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Non-profit OrganizationsVirginia, United States11-50 Employees
X12 is a non-profit organization focused on developing and maintaining electronic data interchange standards and XML schemas that support global business processes. Chartered by the American National Standards Institute for more than four decades, the group aims to facilitate consistent electronic exchange of business transactions across industries such as health care, insurance, transportation, finance, government, and supply chain. Its standards, more than 320 in number, underpin a wide range of B2B operations, including order processing, invoicing, shipping, and cash application. Based in Tysons, Virginia, X12 serves technologists and business process experts within its diverse membership, offering a framework that helps organizations streamline interoperability and data interchange. The organization pursues ongoing development and maintenance of these standards through regular member collaboration, with recent activity including new derivatives for XML schemas and table data related to insurance and health care implementations.