Inter-enterprise Integration e-market solutions Technological solutions

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Inter-enterprise Integratione-market solutions
Technological solutions

• Prepared in collaboration with
• Michel Leblanc

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Communication must be in each steps
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BUILD
USE
DISPOSE
PURCHASE
PLAN
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WORKFLOW INTEGRATOR
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How ?
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The problem
Firm 1
Supplier 1
Firm 2
Supplier 2
Firm 3
Supplier 3
Supplier 4
Firm 4
Supplier 5
Firm 5
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Three businesses challenges

• Distributed centers of control 
• Technology platform, languages, application
  diversity
• Dynamic business environment

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The Holy Grail of Inter-enterprise Integration

• Automated inter-enterprise information exchange
• Automated creation of machine readable messages
• Flexible and agile networking
• No lock in
• Low cost integration solution
• The machine code to read a message should not be
  message specific, or firm specific.
• Creation of a general business language for
  machines

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How to do this

• Creation of e-marketplace for collaborative work
  within industry
• Development of common e-business standards for
  information exchange and integration.
• NOTE
• (Intra-firm integration has been done through
  information centralization (ERP-System). This is
  not possible among multiple firms.)

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Business Integration
Business unit 1
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Creating a standard Interfacebetween applications
Common interface
Application 1
Application 2
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Common standards and protocols
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Integration through common technology
Common standards and protocols
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Building common technologies

• Promoting open standard
• Oasis
• Web services
• Developing industry specific standards
• Rosettanet
• Others
• E-Markets as a common technological platform
• Covisint

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Common technology and language

• EDI was an attempt at defining standard for
  electronic documents efforts at reducing the
  size of the message.
• XML electronic document with tags (human
  readable)
• More standards are necessary.
• General standardization efforts
• Industry specific standardization efforts

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e-Markets as technological platform

• Development of a proprietary platform
• Make sure that almost all firm the industry
  adhere to it
• Focus on specific integration needs of the
  industry
• Examples COVISINT

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OASIS

• www.oasis-open.org
• The mission of OASIS is to drive the
  development, convergence, and adoption of
  structured information standards in the areas of
  e-business, web services, etc.
• The technical work of OASIS is driven by our
  members technical committees (TCs) are formed
  based on the proposals of our members, and the
  TCs set their own agendas and schedules. OASIS
  provides the guidance, process, and
  infrastructure necessary for our members to do
  the work.

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OASIS

• Committees
• Universal Business Language
• ebXML Business Process
• Open Office Format
• Web Services Business Process

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Web services definition

• A Web service is a Loosely coupled software
  component identified by a URI , that dynamically
  interact with other software components. Its
  interfaces and binding are capable of being
  defined, described and discovered via XML
  artifacts and the use of common internet
  protocols.
• They are the building blocks for creating open
  distributed systems on the Internet due to their
  asynchronous interfaces using platform-independent
  technology and their reusable components called
  services.

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Workflow/ Process
Registry
Service Description
Messaging
Core XML Specifications
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
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Workflow/ Process
Registry
Service Description
How to communicate and transfer messages ? We
need a set of rules that facilitate XML exchange
between applications
Messaging
Core XML Specifications
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
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Workflow/ Process
Registry
How to describe existing services and their
specific message requirements ? -a common
framework for describing tasks performed by Web
service.
Service Description
Messaging
Core XML Specifications
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
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Workflow/ Process
How to list and find existing services ? -a
set of specifications for creating XML-based
directories of services
Registry
Service Description
Messaging
Core XML Specifications
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
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How to configure the choreography of
business document exchange ? -a set of
specifications for Creating directories of
business processes
Workflow/ Process
Registry
Service Description
Messaging
Core XML Specifications
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
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Deployment
Source Altering app dev, http//www.infoworld.co
m/articles/fe/xml/02/06/10/020610feinfostat.xml
and schmelzer et.al. articleUnderstanding the
Real Costs of Integration, ZapFlash, Zapthink
Research, oct. 2002
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Challenges

• Industry-specific vocabularies
• Industry-specific business processes
• National and International coordination

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Rosettanet

• Welcome to RosettaNet. A self-funded, non-profit
  organization, RosettaNet is a consortium of major
  Information Technology, Electronic Components and
  Semiconductor Manufacturing companies working to
  create and implement industry-wide, open
  e-business process standards. These standards
  form a common e-business language, aligning
  processes between supply chain partners on a
  global basis. 
• rosettanet.org
• PIP Directory

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Autres

• OpenTravel Alliance (OTA)
• The Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance
  Organization (MISMO)
• The Interactive Financial Exchange Forum (IFX),
• The Hotel Electronic Distribution Network
  Association (HEDNA)
• The Association for Retail Technology Standards
  (ARTS)

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 Covisint is the vehicle to connect the Auto Industry in a virtual environment to enable speed in decision making, waste elimination, and cost reduction while supporting common business processes between manufacturers and their supply chain. Covisint is the central hub where OEMs and Suppliers of all sizes come together to do business in a single business environment using the same tools and user interface, with one user ID and password. Covisint has been designed with an emphasis of making information accessible and visible within a secure online environment. Your information is secure within Covisint and you remain in control of who sees and accesses the information.
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Before the e-markets
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eHub
After e-markets
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Covisint

• Industry Solutions  EDI/Messaging
•   Quality      Customer Users      Supplier
  Users

• Covisint Services  Connect      Customer/Buyer 
       Supplier      Features      Buy Covisint
  Connect
•   Communicate      Sourcing Directory      Suppl
  ier Bulletin      Library Services      Content
  Management
•   Collaborate      Activation