INTEROP WORKSHOP
World-class competitiveness of European economy strongly depends on enterprises' ability in the near future to concretize networked dynamic organizations massively and rapidly. Today, networked business encounters recurrent difficulties due to the lack of interoperability between enterprise systems. The role of research in this field is to create upstream conditions of technological breakthrough to avoid that enterprise investments be governed by the incremental evolution of IT offerings.
Interoperability can be defined as the ability of enterprise software and applications to interact. The capability to efficiently interact, collaborate and exchange information with internal and external organisations is one of the most important challenges of each enterprise, especially forced by the global markets and the resulting competition. It is indispensable in order to produce goods and services more quickly, at lower cost, while maintaining higher levels of quality and customization.
Organisations must be able to adapt to and quickly exchange information with internal and external collaborators. This often requires the exchange of administrative, financial or technical data. Legacy ERP, SCM, LCM and CRM enterprise applications commonly manage the information required for collaboration, but the software itself was for the most part, conceived and programmed to be run within specific, secure, organisational boundaries. In Europe between 30-40% of total IT budgets is spent on issues tied to Interoperability. INTEROP has identified and is studying a number of interoperability "snares" in order to allow for common solutions to reduce these costs
Interoperability is considered to be achieved if the interaction can, at least, take place at the three levels: data, applications and business enterprise through the architecture of the enterprise model and taking into account both syntax and semantics. This is not only a problem of software and IT technologies. It implies support of communication and transactions between different organizations that must be based on shared business references. To gain time and efficiency, and to avoid re-defining co-operation rules and software supporting at each time, these references must also be based on business standards. The business standards must be independent and weakly coupled with IT solutions and IT standards to avoid proprietary solutions and to support openness and evolution.
Interoperability is considered to be achieved if the interaction can, at least, take place at the three levels: data, applications and business enterprise through the architecture of the enterprise model and taking into account both syntax and semantics. This is not only a problem of software and IT technologies. It implies support of communication and transactions between different organizations that must be based on shared business references. To gain time and efficiency, and to avoid re-defining co-operation rules and software supporting at each time, these references must also be based on business standards. The business standards must be independent and weakly coupled with IT solutions and IT standards to avoid proprietary solutions and to support openness and evolution.
The open INTEROP workshop covers submissions on the following themes, as indicated by the CFP:
Presentations have been reserved 20 minute slots, including questions. In the end, an half-hour general summary discussion in planned.
The workshop starts at 9.00 and intends to close around 17.00. The coffee and lunch breaks proposed by local organizers are 10.30-11.00, 12.30-13.30, 15.00-15.30.