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Interoperability
Published in Vivek Kale, Digital Transformation of Enterprise Architecture, 2019
The Framework for Enterprise Interoperability aims at structuring basic enterprise interoperability concepts and issues. FEI has three basic dimensions: Interoperability concerns that define the content of interoperation that may take place at various levels of the enterprise (data, service, process, business).Interoperability barriers that identify various obstacles to interoperability in three categories (conceptual, technological, organizational).Interoperability approaches that represent the different ways in which barriers can be removed (integrated, unified and federated).
Enterprise interoperability development in multi relation collaborations: Success factors from the Danish electricity market
Published in Enterprise Information Systems, 2020
Interoperability is described as a multidimensional concept that covers many perspectives and approaches from different application domains (Gürdür and Asplund 2018). The aim of enterprise interoperability is to provide the right information at the right place at the right time (Vernadat 2007). Enterprise interoperability is the ability of two or more enterprises to communicate and interact effectively with the external systems that they utilize to collaborate seamlessly, over a sustained period of time to achieve specific objectives. The interaction takes place different levels; at organizational, application, and data levels. The data or technical level this is the ability to send the information in bits and bytes, the application or syntactic level this is the ability to read the information, the semantic at organizational level and this is the ability to understand the information (Scholl et al. 2012; Lampathaki et al. 2012; Daclin, Chen, and Vallespir 2016). Enterprise interoperability is an essential component to build agile organizations using different services and processes. Modern organizations are then considered from the intra or inter-organizational point of view, their need to be made interoperable both in terms of their business processes, their applications or IT systems, and even their human resources to confront current business challenges (Vernadat 2007). The Enterprise interoperability has thus the meaning of coexistence, independence and associated environment (Lampathaki et al. 2012). However, focus of interoperability efforts can also be divided in three main categories: administration to administration; administration to business and administration to citizen (Gøtze et al. 2009).
Enterprise interoperability assessment: a requirements engineering approach
Published in International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2020
Gabriel S. S. Leal, Wided Guédria, Hervé Panetto
Further, it is important to note that the concept of interoperability is different from the concept of collaboration. Generally speaking, interoperability is the ability or the aptitude of two systems that have to understand one another and to function together (Chen et al. 2007). In the enterprise context, ‘Enterprise Interoperability’ provides two, or more, business entities the ability to exchange or share information and of using the functionality of one another in a distributed and heterogeneous environment (Chen et al. 2007; Panetto et al. 2016). The next subsections explore interoperability frameworks, requirements and assessment approaches.