A Service-oriented Reference Architecture for Organizing Cross-Company Collaboration

ISBN
978-1-84800-220-3
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2008-03-26
Author(s)
Schroth, Christoph
Editor(s)
Mertins, Kai
Ruggaber, Rainer
Popplewell, Keith
Xu, Xiaofei
DOI
Abstract
Today, cross-company collaboration is about to gain significant momentum, but still shows weaknesses with respect to productivity, flexibility and quality: Point-to-point, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)-based approaches or Managed File Transfer installations provide only limited functional richness and low reach as they often represent proprietary island solutions. A new generation of providers of software (Multienterprise/ Business-to-Business (B2B) Gateway solutions) and services (Integration-as-a-Service and B2B Project Outsourcing) for multienterprise interaction is about to emerge today and allows for richer interaction while reducing the costs for electronic transactions heavily. However, these products and services still exhibit weaknesses with respect to both managerial and technological aspects. In this work, we present and thoroughly discuss a service-oriented reference architecture for business media that overcome the drawbacks of today's B2B software products and services. Based on the IEEE Recommended Practice for Architectural Description (IEEE 1471-2000) in combination with Schmid's Media Reference Model, this reference architecture provides four main views: community (structural organization), process (process-oriented organization), services and infrastructure.

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Funding(s)
Language
English
Keywords
Reference Architecture
Cross-Organizational Electronic Collaboration
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Enterprise Interoperability III
Publisher
Springer
Publisher place
London
Start page
71
End page
83
Pages
13
Event Title
4th International Conference Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications (I-ESA 2008)
Event Location
Berlin, Germany
Event Date
26.-28.03.2008
URL
Subject(s)

information managemen...

Eprints ID
43000