Collaboration and Interoperability within a Virtual Enterprise Applied in a Mobile Maintenance Scenario
Tobias Münch, Jan Hladík, Angelika Salmen, Werner Altmann, Robert Andrei Buchmann, Dimitris Karagiannis, Jens Ziegler, Johannes Pfeffer, Leon Urbas, Óscar Lázaro, Patricia Ortíz, Oscar Castillo, Etxahun Sanchez, Frank Haferkorn · Advances in business strategy and competitive advantage book series · 2014
This chapter presents an infrastructure approach for virtual enterprises developed by the consortium of the European research project ComVantage and discusses its impact with respect to the mobile maintenance domain. The approach focuses on the core aspects of interoperability, which are data interoperability and process interoperability. Regarding the interorganisational access to enterprise data, the authors propose a semantic abstraction layer that is completely decentralised and therefore meets the key requirement of virtuality. The execution of business processes and workflows across organisational boundaries are addressed by the unique App Orchestration Concept.