E-Collaboration for Maritime Operations using Business Process Modeling

One of the highly globalized fields such as Marine Industry, shipping operations are hugely dependent on e-collaboration tools that holds potential to provide quick and readily accessible information across ports, organizations and people across nations concerned with industry. Improving operational efficiency is very much dependent on business process transformation by affording better communication and collaboration between the different parties and information technology. This paper focuses on proposing an architectural methodology to overcome the frequently occurring problems in maritime sector by establishing collaboration between the service providers and potential users of the collaboration tool by identifying key processes. The methodology is developed based on empirical studies of Norwegian SW national initiative, MIS project (http :/ / www .sintef.no/Projectweb/ MIS/ )