Collaboration and Interoperability within a Virtual Enterprise Applied in a Mobile Maintenance Scenario

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. Tobias Münch SAP AG, Germany Jan Hladik SAP AG, Germany Angelika Salmen SAP AG, Germany Werner Altmann Kölsch and Altmann Software and Management Consulting GmbH, Germany Robert Buchmann University of Vienna, Austria Dimitris Karagiannis University of Vienna, Austria Jens Ziegler TU Dresden, Germany Johannes Pfeffer TU Dresden, Germany Leon Urbas TU Dresden, Germany Oscar Lazaro Innovalia Association, Spain Patricia Ortiz Innovalia Association, Spain Oscar Lopez Nextel S. A., Spain Etxahun Sanchez Nextel S. A., Spain Frank Haferkorn RST Industrie Automation GmbH, Germany

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