Semantic Integration for B2B Service Assurance
Alistair Duke · Advances in e-business research series · 2009
This chapter describes an approach to support operational support system (OSS) integration across organisation boundaries. The requirement for such business-to-business (B2B) interfaces is expected to increase as is the need to carry out integration in much more flexible way. Existing approaches for integration tend to be implementation specific, operate at the syntactic level and are realised by programme code. Consequently they are inflexible due to their highly coupled nature and are costly to setup and maintain. An approach to decouple B2B interfaces is introduced, which allows them to be flexibly coupled as required with the use of scalable, semantic mediation. An initial prototype is described based on an Assurance Integration scenario for BT Wholesale’s B2B gateway.