Efficient and Interoperable E-Business –Based on Frameworks, Standards and Protocols
Frank-Dieter Dorloff, Ejub Kajan · IGI Global eBooks · 2012
The reality of E-Business today means E-Commerce, E-Collaboration, E-Government, E-Procurement, Social Networks, et cetera. Independent of the selected area E-Business will only work if interoperability in all its facets and visible E-benefits are ensured. This includes common agreements about the targets, objects, and rules of the E-Business, concepts, frameworks, and models that are well understood, accepted, and provide additional E-Benefits for all participating partners. In addition, ICT systems, tools, and other instruments must be compliant with political and legal restrictions and support the work properly and efficiently, and last but not least, ensure trust and minimize E-Business risks. With the rise of the Internet, its online-service, manifold techniques, and E-Business applications, people expected quick, usable, and efficient solutions for these problems. Really, many profitable and well-working individual solutions on the market may be found. But there still is a gap in looking for generally well-working interoperability solutions like standards, harmonized E-Business legal regulations, easy to understan, and useable ICT infrastructures and tools, and for general solutions to guaranty security and trust in E-Business. This handbook aims to show the state of the art in research and practice in building, managing, and maintaining E-Business solutions under the focus of enhancing interoperability based on standards, protocols, and other helpful concepts, instruments, and examples. To get a better understanding also for non-specialists, the authors systemize the complex and interdisciplinary content and offer additional helpful explanations.