A VP abstracts information from one or more PPs and thus enables companies to hide critical information from unauthorized partners. It is an interface to the outside world which extracts only that kind of information which is necessary for the interaction with one or more potential partners. Thus, a VP can be seen as general interaction description of one or more PPs from the perspective of one partner.
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Using View Process Models in Collaborative Business Processes
Jörg Ziemann (Institute for Information Systems at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany), Timo Kahl (Institute for Information Systems at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany), and Dirk Werth (Institute for Information Systems at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch229
Abstract
Increasing interconnection of organizations is a global trend. Independent organizational units or entire organizations build temporary or permanent collaborations, which pool resources, capabilities, and information to achieve a common objective (Sydow, 1993). New business models are emerging and existing ways of working are redesigned forming long running processes between various (external) partners—so called Cross- Organisational Business Processes (CBPs). In order to realize a collaborative scenario in an efficient and effective manner, it is necessary to design, manage, and optimize CBPs on a global level. This requires the externalization of internal information of every single partner in the network.