Automated Data Mapping for Cross Enterprise Data Integration.
Stefan Böttcher, Sven Groppe · 2003
There are currently multiple different classifications of product descriptions used in enterprise-internal applications and cross-enterprise applications, e.g. E-procurement systems. A key problem is the running of applications developed for one catalogue on product descriptions that are stored in a different classification. A common solution is that a catalogue specialist manually maps different classifications onto each other. Our approach avoids unnecessary manual work for mapping and automatically generates mappings between different classifications wherever possible. This allows us to run E-procurement applications on different catalogues with significantly reduced manual work needed for mapping, what we consider to be an important step towards enterprise application integration.