About the Nature of Collaborative Business Processes

摘要

Interoperability is not a resu it is more a state, that effect between objects. These objects may be of technical nature (e.g. interoperability of applications) or of organizational nature. Presuming business interoperability effecting between e-business enterprises, this means an (technical and organizational) plug-and-do mechanisms for making business. Thus, businesses no longer operate independent business processes, but they come to a state, where the processes are fitted together to form an overall value generation structure, supported by interconnected application systems. This article addresses this core structural object (called collaborative business process) and tries to deduct and to analyze the special properties of this object. Moreover it delimits the collaborative business process against other organizational concepts, e.g. processes in virtual enterprises. In the consequence, new requirements for future e-business systems that will support such collaborative business processes will be obvious.