Research Area
semantic interoperability, technical interoperability, e-Business
Short Description
Today ICT constitutes the main
enabler in the effort of enterprises to interoperate and
collaborate in strategic and operational level. Nonetheless,
despite the substantial technological progress in the field,
ICT-enabled interoperability still requires a significant set up
time to become available, entails a considerable cost and usually
is confined within the narrow scope of an enterprise or at best
across proprietary supply chains and dedicated business
domains.
The current research agenda for
interoperability, in the form of the Enterprise Interoperability
Research Roadmap, taking into consideration these conditions
defines a new framework for the provision of interoperability as a
commoditized functionality that can be invoked and used on demand
in a "plug n' play" way.
PLUG-IN aims to constitute a major
implementation arm for the "plug n' play" interoperability concept
by designing, developing and piloting a utility software component
that will offer the necessary set of services to deliver and
sustain interoperability to its enterprises/users across similar as
well as differing business domains.
The PLUG-IN Interoperability
Service Utility will be primarily oriented towards facilitating the
needs of SMEs by providing them with a technology infrastructure
that will be layered upon their existing systems and knowledge
sources and enabling them to exchange computer-meaningful
information with others using the principle of end-to-end
interconnection. The PLUG-IN infrastructure will be further
customizable by its users in order to provide them with specific
value-added services according to their business situation
(business domain or business event) utilizing a multitude of
channels (internet, telephone, mobile devices or even RFID).
The project consortium consists of
5 partners from 3 different parts of Greece, bringing together
innovative know how of research institutions, development
capabilities of software industry and business experience of IT end
users.
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