Collaborative Model Management Platform – Requirements and prototypical Implementation

With information gaps across the borders of an enterprise business process coordination turns out to be a highly complex task in enterprise cooperation. Especially for network design and implementation, information modelling serves as a fundamental starting point. However, efficient modelling support for cross-organisational modelling has not been provided by ordinary Business Process Management methods and tools in the past. Thus, in the paper, the authors depict a modelling approach dedicated to a global and a local information description and a collaborative management of information models by the use of a respective model management platform. The latter supports the collaborative creation and application of models in network environments.