Secure Integration of eBusiness Processes in the Extended-Enterprise

The new unit of competition is no longer the individual firm but rather the extendedenterprise. It has long been recognized that information security and system integration are among the key issues for IT executives. We posit that these issues still remain open and they are exacerbated by the fact that highly competitive enterprises operate in an environment characterized by distributed and heterogeneous information systems and heterogeneous information and knowledge resources. Following the design science paradigm, we propose a design artifact that allows for formally represented knowledge to be securely shared across the extended-enterprise. The effective deployment of semantic web technologies would enable the proposed IT artifact to support the dependencies among multiple knowledge resources for effective eBusiness processes the extended-enterprise.

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