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Interoperability is a prerequisite for enterprise collaborations. However continuing evolution of enterprise and enterprise networks as well the proliferation of different mature and overlapping standards create heterogenic and unstable situations for all stakeholders. There exists not the solution for overcoming the current situation. Collaborating enterprises and networks require a consolidated and consistent understanding across the stakeholders. This has to be gathered from the sometimes unstructured and incomplete knowledge regarding the processes within and between organisations. In the paper an approach is described how to achieve interoperability in an incremental way. It is based on four main interrelated aspects, first a five level interoperability architecture which separates the connectivity between organisations and systems from business to execution data, second the Business Scope of interoperability tasks to be performed, third interoperability maturity levels and fourth an establishment framework and their reflection existing interoperability solutions. Based on given approaches for synchronising distributed enterprise models the framework is applied for supporting the development of an ASP solution for supply chain management. The approach combines aspects from the work elaborated in three EU IST projects: ATHENA-IP, INTEROP-NoE and SPIDER-WIN[1, 2, 3].
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Mertins, K., Knothe, T., Jäkel, F.W. (2007). Enterprise Interoperability enabling Enterprise Collaboration. In: Gonçalves, R.J., Müller, J.P., Mertins, K., Zelm, M. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability II. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-858-6_34
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