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Standard creation and adoption for SME networks", in "Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications
Abstract
This paper presents the experience that is running in the Textile, Clothing and Footwear industry under the framework of the European project eBIZ-TCF as a case of
standardisation in industrial sectors that are characterised by the large presence of SMEs.
The activities are presented in connection with previous initiatives that constitute the
industrial and technological background of such initiative. In fact it is a long way that leaded the actors of the project to identify the requirements and remove the bottlenecks that hamper eBusiness adoption in a crucial part of the European manufacturing industry.
Data interoperability implies data exchanges among intra and inter enterprises collaborating with information systems (IS). The multiplicity of these exchanges and the increasing number of data exchanged generates complexity and brings out the needs for control to avoid dysfunctions with a negative impact on the overall performance of the systems. Indeed, actually, interoperability has become a necessary performance lever that thus requires particular attention. Being at a low level in the enterprise interoperability concerns, data interoperability is mainly automated, which leads us to question: Is it possible to evaluate data interoperability performance and security based on inspection and analysis of ongoing data exchanges? We therefore endeavored to answer this question by establishing monitoring and analysis systems. In this paper, we present a research work which addresses services provided by a messaging‐based communication system. In order to collect information on Information System interactions allowing one to assess their level of data interoperability, we propose a messaging metamodel that aggregates the collected information. It provides a single point of control and enables one to determine indicators of potential interoperability problems. The approach is validated on two case studies. An industrial case study of interactions among existing systems is presented to showcase the feasibility and interest of the approach. It is proposed on top of RabbitMQ and allows our partner to identify some issues in the studied information system. The second case study shows that the approach can integrate other protocols, by reading MQTT messages. The approach is implemented using Moose, a software analysis platform. In this article, we present a work on analysis of information transiting in an open information system. This information gives us information on the interactions of the subsystems, allowing one to assess their level of interoperability. We detail the global framework by explaining each of the stages, particularly that of versioning, which allows one to keep a history of the system's evolution. Then, we focus on the metamodel and show that it allows to work with different event‐driven architectures. We end the paper with some implementation details and two case studies: one industrial, the other based on data from a simulator to demonstrate the feasibility and interest of our approach.
This paper presents the experience that is running in the Textile, Clothing and Footwear industry under the framework of the European project eBIZ-TCF as a case of standardisation in industrial sectors that are characterised by the large presence of SMEs. The activities are presented in connection with previous initiatives that constitute the industrial and technological background of such initiative. In fact it is a long way that leaded the actors of the project to identify the requirements and remove the bottlenecks that hamper eBusiness adoption in a crucial part of the European manufacturing industry.
This paper presents the experience realised building up a sectorial collaboration framework addressed to the Textile/Clothing industry, Moda-ML. The experience of Moda-ML, started from the background of the EDI analysis but was developed looking to the ebXML specifications and with a great attention to the requirements arising from the industry. The requirements for an incremental approach and a vertical collaborative framework produced an original experience. The effectiveness of the approach is witnessed by the project contribution to the standardisation initiative CEN/ISSS TexSpin. One of the main challenge arose from the large presence of SMEs in this sector that did not allowed, in the past, the diffusion of EDI technologies and that, presently, hampers the diffusion of integration systems. On the other hand, there is a discussion about the capability of the standards, and of the standardisation processes, to effectiveness contribute to the development of the application level of the B2B integration.
The adoption of public applicative standards could improve eBusiness adoption, especially among networks of SMEs. Nevertheless
the adoption of such specifications encounters obstacles and hampering factors. This paper analyses some of such factors and
the experience of promoting the adoption of standards for eBusiness in sectors dominated by SME’s presence and outlines some
of the actions that can be pursued through the adoption of use profiles. The paper also present an approach for the management
of use profiles, that appear as a way to overcome some of the major problems arising from the nature of the standardised specifications
and to reduce the efforts necessary to achieve true interoperability between systems.
The authors, try to redefine the requirements and the logical architecture for a dictionary that supports a vertical collaboration framework in a standardisation perspective; to this aim the analysis of important vertical and horizontal standardisation initiatives (like EDIFACT and the most recent UBL) as well as the difficulties in setting B2B standards, is a key starting point. The paper aims to put in evidence how the requirements deriving from an industrial sector, characterised by the large presence of SMEs, leaded to an advanced and flexible approach; it maintains relationships with the world of B2B standards but differs from the philosophy that animates B2B frameworks, influenced by the EDIFACT experience. The dictionary and the related tools were experienced in the Moda-ML initiative that contributed to set the CEN/ISSS TexSpin and TexWeave specifications for the textile clothing industry.