Title :
VEC: gateways for cross-organizational document flow
Author :
Ludwig, Heiko ; Whittingham, Keith
Author_Institution :
IBM Zurich Res. Lab., Ruschlikon, Switzerland
Abstract :
To ensure the interconnection of business processes, outsourcing services require a rich flow of information between the service-providing and service-requesting organizations. Using the Virtual Enterprise Coordinator (VEC) and the Internet, organizations can outsource projects to external partners in a controlled way, while retaining the freedom to change the internal process definitions and document structures
Keywords :
Internet; business communication; business data processing; document handling; groupware; internetworking; outsourcing; CSCW; Internet; VEC; Virtual Enterprise Coordinator; cross-organizational document flow; document structures; external partners; gateways; information flow; interconnected business processes; internal process definitions; outsourcing services; service-providing organizations; service-requesting organizations; Application software; Business; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Enterprise resource planning; Environmental management; Information retrieval; Personnel; Quality management; Resource management;
Journal_Title :
MultiMedia, IEEE
