Standards in enterprise inter- and intra-organisational integration

Abstract

World-wide collaboration and co-operation of enterprises of all sizes increases the need for standards supporting operational interoperability in the global environment. Such standards are concerned with the communication aspects of information and communication technology (ICT), like communication protocols as well as the syntax and semantics of the communication content. Communicating parties have to have the same understanding of the meaning of the exchanged information and trust both the communication itself and the validity of its content. Focus of the paper is on business process modelling and its standardisation in the area of enterprise inter- and intra-organisational integration. Relations to the subject of interoperability are discussed.