Enterprise and Business Processes - How to Interoperate? The Standards View

Cooperation between and collaboration with partner organisations is a business requirement, which needs for its fulfillment a fast and easy exchange of information between the partners. Therefore interoperation between heterogeneous ICT systems is becoming a high priority requirement in such a global business enterprise environment. Numerous standards to support this interoperation have been or are developed by both Standards Development Organisations (SDOs) and industry consortia. However, with no coordination between the different organizations these standards are providing neither a coherent nor a sufficient set of solutions. An overview of currently available and forthcoming standards is provided and some conclusions are drawn for the different potential solutions.