IESA 2010 scope

Enterprise Interoperability (EI) is the ability of an enterprise or more generally an organisation to work with other enterprises or organisations without special effort. The capability to interact and exchange information both internally and with external organisations (partners, suppliers, customers, citizens…) is a key issue in the economic and public sector. It is fundamental in order to produce goods and/or services quickly and at lower cost, while ensuring higher levels of quality, customisation, services and security.

Today, enterprises/organisations maximise flexibility and speed of response to changing external conditions. They develop knowledge of, and links with, other Enterprises/Organisations with which they can collaborate to provide the products and services that customers demand.  The issue of interoperability within the enterprise/organisations is therefore no longer limited to the interoperability between silos of systems within single companies, but has become one of interoperability throughout a network of enterprises/organisations.

It is now recognised that interoperability of systems and thus sharing of information is not sufficient to ensure common understanding between enterprises. Knowledge of information meaning and understanding of how is to be used must also be shared if decision makers distributed between those enterprises in the network want to act consistently and efficiently. Enterprise interoperability must therefore now embrace sharing of collaboration knowledge and core competencies as well as the administration of such shared knowledge – knowledge oriented collaboration.

Industry’s need for Enterprise Interoperability has been one of the significant drivers for research into the Internet of the Future. EI research will embrace and extend contributions from the Internet of Things and the Internet of Services, and will go on to drive the future needs for the Internets of People, Processes, and Knowledge.

I-ESA brings together the world’s leading researchers and practitioners in the area of Enterprise Interoperability and for the development of new Enterprise solutions based on the Internet of the Future.

Initiated in 2005 by two major European research projects of the 6th Framework R&D Programme of the European Commission, the ATHENA IP (Advanced Technologies for Interoperability of Heterogeneous Enterprise Networks and their Applications, Integrated Project) and the INTEROP NoE, (Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprise Applications and Software, Network of Excellence), the I-ESA conferences have been recognized as a tool to lead and generate an extensive research and industrial impact in the field of interoperability for enterprise software and applications.

I-ESA is a unique forum for stakeholders to exchange their visions, ideas, research results and industrial experiences and problems on business interoperability in their daily operations. Industry will be able to meet interoperability experts and learn from them about emerging new solutions and even establish relationships for further research and development and problem solving.