Developing Information Service Platform for Clusters of Small-Medium Enterprises in Heterogenous Environment
Bo Jiang · 2008
Industrial cluster has been developing very quickly in China. However, most of them are low-cost-based clusters that are composed of small-medium enterprises. In this paper, we present an on-demand information service platform for small-medium enterprise clusters and propose the component-based loosely-coupled service-oriented architecture for this platform. Several key techniques such as application integration in heterogenous environment, XML middleware based heterogeneous data integration, and dynamic web services for composition-based business flow integration are discussed. Professional services can be provided via this platform to promote the enterprises' innovative ability and help business to gain competitive advantages. The platform and the related system have been applied in realistic industrial enterprises.