Enterprise interoperability
Enterprise interoperability qualifies the faculty of enterprise to establish a partnership activity (in product design, organization of the activities of production, supply chains piloting) in an efficient and competitive way in an environment of unstable market. Also, inside a company, the need in interoperability of the various services is very generally identified.
If the need of interoperability is established today clearly, the solutionnement is interpreted at various levels (business, organization, computing) and by various actors (commercial, services computing, manufacturing).
The research in interoperability of enterprise practised in is various domains itself (Enterprise Modelling, Ontologies, Information systems, Architectures and Platforms) which it is a question of positioning. [1]
Enterprise interoperability Topic
Interoperability in enterprise architecture
Enterprise architecture (EA) presents a high level design of enterprise capabilities in order to define successful IT projects in coherence with enterprise principals and business related requirements. EA covers mainly (i) the business capabilities analysis and validation; (ii) the development of business, application, data and technical architectures and solutions, and finally (iii) the control of programme and project implementation and governance. The application of EA methodology feeds the enterprise repository reference frame with sets of building blocks used to compose the targeted system. The interoperability can be considered either as a principal, requirement or constraint that impact the definition of patterns to compose building blocks in the definition of targeted architectural roadmap. In this scope, EA within the TOGAF perspective [2], aims to reconcile interoperability requirements with potential solutions in order to enhance the capability of developed systems to be interoperable. So as to maintain the interoperability challenge quite present in the next steps of system’s lifecycle, several models and Frameworks are developed under the topic enterprise interoperability.
Enterprise interoperability frameworks
In order to preserve interoperability, several frameworks can be identified in the literature:
- 2003: IDEAS [3] : Interoperability Developments for Enterprise Application and Software.
- 2004: EIF [4]: The European Interoperability Framework
- 2004: e-GIF[5]: e-Government Interoperability Framework
- 2006: FEI [6]: The Framework for Enterprise Interoperability
- 2006: C4IF [7]: Connection, Communication, Consolidation, Collaboration Interoperability Framework
- 2007: AIF [8]: Athena Interoperability Framework
- 2007: [9] Enterprise Architecture Framework for Agile and Interoperable Virtual Enterprises
References
- ^ Chen, D., Doumeingts, G., and Vernadat, F. 2008. Architectures for enterprise integration and interoperability: Past, present and future. Comput. Ind. 59, 7 (Sep. 2008), 647–659. Template:En icon : DOI
- ^ TOGAF® 9 Certified, 2nd edition. The Open Group, 2011.
- ^ “A Contribution to Enterprise Interoperability Maturity Assessment”
- ^ EIF 2.0 http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/servlets/Docb0db.pdf
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
”eGIF"was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ http://chen33.free.fr/M2/Elearning/CIGI2009.Chen.final.pdf
- ^ Peristeras, V., and K. Tarabanis (2006): The Connection, Communication, Consolidation, Collaboration Interoperability Framework (C4IF) for Information Systems Interoperability, International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems (IBIS), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 61-72.
- ^ http://www.asd-ssg.org/html/ATHENA/Deliverables/Deliverables%20provided%20to%20EC%206th%206%20Months/070306_ATHENA_DA82_V10.pdf
- ^ Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice, 2007