IT Infrastructures and Standards for VE Integration Development

Abstract

In recent years, the new notion of virtual enterprises has sparkled, concentrating efforts to adapt existing technologies and realize this new paradigm. This chapter attempts to understand the needs of information technology (IT) in the virtual enterprises, and to research existing technologies that can help tackle the problem. Technologies such as Web services and software agents are examined that help business process management and thus offer the IT infrastructures to achieve integration. Also, the efforts toward standardization are considered along with the current situation in this area.