CCTS-based Business Information Modelling for Increasing Cross-Organizational Interoperability

The dissemination of e-Business solutions among small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is still very low due to various reasons. In the course of the GENESIS project, we aim at designing and deploying a novel e-Business platform that removes entry barriers for these SMEs. We present a living platform that grows over time and provides users with the possibility to seamlessly model and setup business relations with other users and execute these on the basis of a collaboratively designed standard. To achieve interoperability on both a business process and data level, we propose a novel, integrated modeling concept which is partly based on different existing standards such as the ISO 15000-5 CCTS specification (developed by UN/CEFACT). Our approach enables users to intuitively model and setup the unique processes and business documents they are willing to support while adhering to a common repository of data and process components. In this way, we ensurecross-organizational interoperabi...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: IESA
• Authors: Christoph Schroth, G. Pemptroad, Till Janner
• Keywords: Approach Enables Users, E-Business Solutions, IESA 2007, Medium Sized Enterprises, Software Engineering