Innovative EI Services

To create added value in a highly competitive, global market, nowadays organisations - especially Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) - more than ever have to cooperate with appropriate business partners, identify state-of-the-art business processes and select the best technologies available. This business environment positively affects demand for Enterprise Interoperability Services (EIS) aiming to provide services to facilitate co-creation, and services to surmount or even to prevent interoperability issues. The COIN project adopted the ATHENA EI reference framework which addresses interoperability at different levels. COIN adapted and substantiated the established concepts, and implemented several services particularly with regard to information interoperability, process interoperability and knowledge interoperability. This summary highlights a few out of the many COIN results in the EI domain, i.e. semantic reconciliation of business documents, introduction of the visibility rules concept, business process gap detection, as well as knowledge sharing of key competences and skills of enterprises cooperating in a cluster.