COIN Results

The COIN Book

The COIN book addresses the current state of the art and current practice, future scenarios and challenges for research and innovation of networking enterprises in the context of Future Internet Enterprise Systems. The COIN book is made of diverse parts following the projects’ main research and demonstration threads covering the broad research results and presents them in a manageable and comprehensive overview for an interesting reading.

Enterprise Collaboration

The COIN EC services aim at supporting industrial enterprises (and SMEs in particular) in the collaborative processes regarding the creation and management of long-lasting clusters and networks (e.g. supply chains, collaborative networks, business ecosystems), as well as the creation, management and dissolution of short-term enterprises aggregations, called Virtual Enterprises or Virtual Organizations. The EC services are divided into 5 distinct classes, each of them addressing the challenge of competencies and business opportunities dynamic management for different collaboration forms (hierarchical, semi-hierarchical and not-hierarchical)

Enterprise Interoperability

The COIN EI services aim at supporting the elimination or reduction of the incompatibilities among enterprise systems involved in a collaboration scenario (being it long- or short-term). Such interoperability gaps to be removed are in general at the level of organizational structures, business processes, enterprise applications/services and data formats/content, while EI services use model transformations and semantic reconciliation techniques to solve them according to the integrated, unified and federated interoperability form. The EI services are divided into 4 distinct classes, each of them addressing one aspect of the interoperability challenges.

Service Platform

The COIN generic service platform (GSP) is the backbone of the COIN project integrating services for enterprise collaboration and enterprise interoperability. It fulfils the COIN objective to design and develop a pervasive, adaptive service platform to host Baseline and Innovative COIN services for EI and EC and make them available under innovative on-demand, utility-oriented business models to European enterprise for running their business in a secure, reliable and efficient way.

Saas-U and Business Models Research

 

Enterprise Collaboration and Interoperability Maturity Models

An Enterprise Collaboration Maturity Model (ECMM) is developed to support the best adoption and take-up of COIN outcomes into target industrial environments, by carefully modelling and analysing the enterprise readiness for collaboration and interoperability and by suggesting the proper measures for improvement. The ECMM has as main objective to analyze, measure, and propose improvement practices for increasing the capability of an organization to be able to collaborate and interoperate.

Support EI & EC Solution Take-up

COIN aims to strengthen its research and technology take-up aspects by reviewing and assessing usability, developing implementation/ take-up process and guidelines and methods to analyze EC & EI maturity.

Public documents

COIN Public deliverables are collected and available for download in this area.

Papers

COIN Papers