On Baseline IT-Services to support Enterprise Collaboration

Abstract

Enterprise Collaboration (EC) is a widely discussed subject. Due to this fact a variety of different opinions can be formed mainly based on the scientific discipline behind it. From our understanding Enterprise Collaborations are based on inter-organisational relationships between network members. The analysis and support of those relationships was one of the main objectives of the COIN IP project. In the first year of the project the main objective for the Baseline Enterprise Collaboration (EC) Services team was to consolidate and harmonise results from previous RTD projects concerned with Enterprise Collaboration. As a scientific result EC Baselines Services are able to support most dynamic enterprise collaborations, like Business Ecosystems, by harmonisation of individuals and organisations profiles under the same model.