Enterprise Interoperability Baseline Services

Results from Enterprise Interoperability Baseline

In the COIN context, Enterprise Interoperability (EI) services provide functionality for applying IT solutions that overcome interoperability gaps between two or more enterprises and thus enabling them to set-up and run collaborations. The five categories of the baseline EI services are defined by the COIN EI Services Framework (originating from the Athena Interoperability Framework) as shown in the figure below.

 The Interoperability Reference Model

Model-driven interoperability services

·      The COIN Model Transformation Service Engine hosts and provides relevant transformations that can be used to align the huge diversity of models used in the design, integration and implementation tasks of enterprise applications and systems.

Enterprise modeling interoperability services

·      The COIN POP* Transformation Service provides the functionality of modeling in the context of POP* to JPDL transformation.

·      The COIN Enterprise Interoperability Maturity Assessment Service supports the assessment of an organization's maturity level concerning the use of enterprise models as well as the capability of these models to enable the company to be part of collaboration.

Business process interoperability services

·      The COIN Semantic Business Process Modeling Service supports reduction of the complexity of tasks related to transformation between different business process models as well as transformation in executable process models with semantic annotations.

·      The COIN Semantic Business Process Management Service supports the life cycle management of deployed business process models independently on the underlying engines actually executing the model.

Semantic mediation interoperability services

·      The Athos Ontology Service provides functionalities for ontology management. Ontology is a pre-requisite for semantic-based mediation and reconciliation of business documents.

·      The Astar Semantic Annotation Service supports management of semantic annotations allowing digital resources to be described in terms of a common reference represented by a domain specific ontology.

·      Functionalities for management of transformation rules that represent the semantic mapping able to drive the mediation and reconciliation are provided by the Argos Semantic Transformation Rules Service.

·      Ares Semantic Reconciliation Service represents the final step towards the actual mediation and reconciliation of business documents among heterogeneous information systems.

Data interoperability services

·      Support for communication among a set of multiple data providers and a set of multiple data consumers is provided by the COIN Massive Data Interoperability Service.

·      The COIN Transactional Data Interoperability Service provides functionality to allow the exchange of business documents between two actors.