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What is Virtual Enterprise (VE)

Chapter 54
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
A VE is temporarily network of independent businesses that decide to join their efforts until certain objectives are accomplished.
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Developing B2B Virtual Enterprises
Ghazi Alkhatib (Applied Science University, Jordan) and Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University - Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch054
Abstract
Nowadays, Web services are emerging as a major technology for achieving automated interactions between distributed and heterogeneous applications (Benatallah, Sheng, & Dumas, 2003). Various technologies are behind this achievement including WSDL, UDDI, and SOAP1. (Curbera, Duftler, Khalaf et. al. 2002) These technologies aim at supporting the definition of services2, their advertisement, and their binding for triggering purposes. The advantages of Web services have already been demonstrated and highlight their capacity to be composed into high-level business process (Benatallah et al., 2003). Usually, composite services (CS) denote business processes and are meant to be offered to users who have needs to satisfy.
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Chapter 241
Enterprise Interoperability
A temporary alliance of BEs that come together to jointly fulfill common business goals.
Published in Chapter: Enterprise Interoperability; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 79
Towards Conflict-Free Virtual Enterprises
A temporary alliance of BEs that come together to jointly fulfill common business goals.
Published in Chapter: Towards Conflict-Free Virtual Enterprises; From: Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Development, Implementation, and Management
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The Applications of Building Information Modelling in Facilities Management
Virtual enterprise (VE) is a temporary telematic alliance between stakeholders in the development of building models to collaborate and share data, core competencies, and skills.
Published in Chapter: The Applications of Building Information Modelling in Facilities Management; From: Handbook of Research on Building Information Modeling and Construction Informatics: Concepts and Technologies
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Chapter 121
Market of Resources for Virtual Enterprise Integration
A dynamically reconfigurable global networked organization, networked enterprise, or network of enterprises, sharing information and/or knowledge, skills, core competencies, market, and other resources and processes, configured (or constituted) as a temporary alliance (or network) to meet a (fast changing) market window of opportunity, presenting as main characteristics agility, virtuality, distributivity, and integrability (see Putnik, 2000).
Published in Chapter: Market of Resources for Virtual Enterprise Integration; From: Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
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Chapter 66
Environments for VE Integration
A dynamically reconfigurable global networked organization, networked enterprise, or network of enterprises, sharing information and/or knowledge, skills, core competencies, market, and other resources and processes, configured (or constituted) as a temporary alliance (or network) to meet a (fast changing) market window of opportunity, presenting as main characteristics agility, virtuality, distributivity, and integrability (see Putnik, 2000).
Published in Chapter: Environments for VE Integration; From: Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
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