Collaboration and Interoperability Support for Agile
Enterprises in a Networked World: Emerging Scenarios,
Research Challenges, Enabling Technologies
Manfred Reichert
University of Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany
Abstract. The economic success of enterprises increasingly depends on their
ability to react to changes in their environment in a quick and flexible way.
Examples of such environmental changes include regulatory adaptations (e.g.
introduction of Sarbanes-Oxley or Basel II), market evolution, altered customer
behavior, process improvement, and strategy shifts. Companies have therefore
identified business agility as a competitive advantage required for coping with
business trends like increasing product and service variability, faster time-to-
market, and increasing division of labor along the supply chain. In particular,
the agile enterprise should be able to quickly set up new business processes as
well as to adapt existing ones. However, networked enterprises must not
accomplish such business process changes independent from the interactions
they have with their partners and customers; e.g., business contracts and
business compliance rules must be ensured after business process changes as
well. This keynote will discuss major research challenges to be tackled in this
context. Further, it will present advanced methods, concepts and technologies
enabling collaboration and interoperability support for the agile enterprise in a
networked world.
Keywords: networked enterprises; collaboration; interoperability; agility;
business process change, business process compliance
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