GENESIS

Type

applied research project

Start Date

March 1, 2006

End Date

October 31, 2008

URI

http://www.genesis-ist.eu

Status

completed

Keywords

GENESIS

FP6

Description

GENESIS: Enterprise Application Interoperability - Integration for SMEs, Governmental Organizations and Intermediaries in the New European Union

The GENESIS project will develop a prototype system to enable the typical, usually small and medium, East-European enterprise to conduct its Business transactions over Internet, by interconnecting its main transactional software applications and systems with those of collaborating enterprises, banking/social insurance institutions and governmental bodies, with respect to the evolving legal and regulatory status.

A typical business case of GENESIS will include the following: The enterprise will produce business documents through its existing ERP application or via a web browser (if no application is available) in order to submit it to another collaborative enterprise. Through the GENESIS server the document will be stored and forwarded to the final recipient ensuring security and confidentiality of data. The recipient will retrieve the document and automatically incorporate it into its existing application (or web browser in case no application exists).

The project is coordinated by Singular Software SA and implemented by a consortium of 14 partners and a third party from Austria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and the United Kingdom representing more than 200,000 end-user installations of enterprise applications.

The duration of the GENESIS project is 30 months.

Member contributor(s)

Schroth, Christoph

Janner, Till

Bucherer, Eva

Hoyer, Volker

Funder

EU – 6th Framework Pr...

Topic(s)

Enterprise Application Interoperability

Method(s)

Analysis of the legal and statutory framework in EU

new EU member states and associated countries

Modelling of the typical business transactions of SMEs

Design and development of protocols and data formats for interoperation of enterprise applications

Development of the necessary central infrastructure and distributed interconnection components for enterprise applications

Pilot application following the GENESIS piloting methodology

Dissemination of the results towards Software Vendors

Governments

Universities and Enterprises

as well as towards local and international standardisation bodies.

Division(s)

MCM -Institute for Me...

Eprints ID

30483

Funding code

FP6-027867

Funding’s publication

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The Enterprise Interoperability Center - An Institutional Framework Facilitating Enterprise Interoperability
(Association for Information Systems, 2007-06-07)
Frenzel, Petra
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Schroth, Christoph
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Samsonova, Tatjana
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Österle, Hubert
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Schelp, Joachim
During the last years, electronic collaboration between enterprises has significantly increased. To seamlessly integrate applications across company boundaries, all stakeholders have to adhere to common standards. Currently, cross-organizational business relationships are setup based on a plethora of standards that involve different technical representations, semantics, process specifications and also vary with respect to scope and granularity. The resulting business standards dilemma prevents corporations from seamlessly cooperating with each other. State-of-the-art standards tackle parts of this interoperability issue by providing flexible and semantically more precise specifications, but have not yet been widely adopted. The abundance of different standards, but also the frequently divergent interests of stakeholders involved in the development and adoption of standards prevents enterprises from seamlessly interconnecting their applications. In this work, we leverage institutional economics to elaborate on a novel approach to facilitating enterprise interoperability. Not the creation of yet another standard, but the establishment and fostering of a proper institutional framework will significantly reduce the stakeholders' uncertainty in deciding for and adopting a standard and thus drive seamless cross-organizational interoperability. A key outcome of the ATHENA-project, the Enterprise Interoperability Center (EIC) is expected to provide such an institutional framework. This work is devoted to analyzing this center on the basis of institutional economics in order to derive essential recommendations for it to emerge as the prevailing reference point for e-Business standards and to thus accelerate the seamless and efficient electronic collaboration between enterprises. https://admin.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/webcontent/uuid/d0ab69b4-9037-2a10-989c-f496bd451695
Type:conference paper
URL:http://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2007/30/
URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/80574
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Service Composition Strategies for Loosely Coupled Information Chains
(2007-09-17)
Schroth, Christoph
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Janner, Till
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Hoyer, Volker
Web Services have experienced great interest during the last years as they are expected to act as enablers of seamless application-to-application integration both within company boundaries and on a global scale. Especially the automation of cross-organizational, information intensive business processes through the loose composition of standardized services is believed to significantly reduce costs and increase operational agility. In this work, we present three different strategies to supporting Web Service composition across corporate boundaries: A central service orchestration architecture, a hybrid orchestration approach with hub support and finally a fully decentralized orchestration solution without any central control entity. We evaluate and compare the three strategies on the basis of the eight criteria functional scope, monitoring capabilities, fault detection and removal, simultaneousness of process instance execution, scalability, security, seamless interoperability of the coupled applications as well as end-point complexity. The analysis shows that the hybrid approach represents the most promising solution as it unifies the advantages of centralized and decentralized strategies. www.sysedv.tu-berlin.de/SemSoc/ http://www.icsoc.org/
Type:conference paper
URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/80194
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Advancing Interoperability for Agile Cross-Organisational Collaborations: A Rule-Based Approach
(IGI-Global, 2010)
Gionis, George
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Schroth, Christoph
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Janner, Till
Gionis, Schroth and Janner present a comprehensive Model-Driven Architecture for enabling agile cross-organisational collaboration, in an international context, by integrating business and legal rules in private and collaborative processes, business documents and their resulting service orchestrations. The resulting framework, that was mostly developed and applied in the course of the EU-funded research project GENESIS, ranges from graphical process and data models and declarative rule structures to the technical specification of a hybrid software architecture for integrating rule with process and data models.
Type:book section
URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/97319
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Achieving Cross-Country Electronic Documents Interoperability with the help of a CCTS-based Modelling Framework
(www.eJeta.org, 2008-05-01)
Lampathaki, Fenareti
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Mouzakitis, Spiros
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Janner, Till
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Schroth, Christoph
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Askounis, Dimitris
The dawn of the XML era appears insufficient to guarantee a holistic approach in electronic transactions, as long as the semantics confusion, the lack of a common understanding of the underlying data and the business standards dilemma prevail and prevent data interoperability issues from being resolved. As various e-Government initiatives are being realized throughout the world, an imperative need for creating unified governmental data models that will facilitate the seamless exchange of information and the deployment of interoperable systems in Enterprises and Central, Regional and Municipal Government emerges. After attempting to identify relevant research that has been undertaken in the field of data modeling, the present paper analyzes the scope and the objectives of the business information modeling oriented towards governmental data. Based on UBL (Universal Business Language) and CCTS (Core Components Technical Specification), a component-based data modelling methodology enhancing business-to-government interoperability is proposed, creating the basis for a repository of governmental data models. The approach adopted may also serve as guidelines for creating and transitioning between "generic - harmonized" and "specific - contextualized" documents. A real world paradigm extracted from the Periodic VAT Statement document finally comes to prove the soundness of the proposed methodology. http://minbar.cs.dartmouth.edu/greecom/ejeta/specialMay08-issue.php http://minbar.cs.dartmouth.edu/greecom/ejeta/specialMay08-issue/ejeta-special-08may-4.pdf
Type:journal article
Journal:The electronic Journal for E-Commerce Tools & Applications (eJETA)
Volume:2
Issue:3
URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/78408
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Interoperability Enhancement in Business to Government: Extending the Scope of UBL
(Springer, 2006-11-30)
Janner, Till
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Lampathaki, Fenarethi
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Mouzakitis, S.
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Schroth, Christoph
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Scheper, Ulrich
Type:conference paper
URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/82260
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From EDI to UN/CEFACT: An Evolutionary Path Towards a Next Generation e-Business Framework
(2006-11-02)
Janner, Till
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Schmidt, Alexander
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Schroth, Christoph
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Stuhec, Gunther
Modern e-Business frameworks have evolved from traditional EDI technology. The evolutionary development towards current e-Business stacks like RosettaNet led to an increased degree of integration and operational efficiency. Nevertheless, significant shortcomings still exist. Especially on the semantic level of data and process engineering further improvements are expected to harmonize the diversity and redundancy of existing e-Business stacks. UN/CEFACT's standardization efforts are a promising solution towards next generation e-Business frameworks. The authors intend to provide a picture of the future of e-Commerce by evaluating three cornerstones of e-Business standard evolution: EDI, RosettaNet and a novel combination of specifications issued by UN/CEFACT.
Type:conference paper
URL:http://www.sit.kmutt.ac.th/nceb2006/index.php
URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/82329
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A Hybrid Architecture for Enabling Electronic Transactions Among Enterprises and Governmental Bodies
(Springer, 2006-11-29)
Schroth, Christoph
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Gionis, Giorgios
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Charalabidis, Yannis
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Janner, Till
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Koussouris, Sotirios
Today electronic transactions constitute a constantly growing business reality that promises advantages such as reduced transactional cost, seamless information flow, and better communication and collaboration with business partners. However, the creation of a system clearly oriented towards promoting interoperability of existing systems and facilitating electronic transactions between partners of diverse nature, like enterprises and governmental bodies, still faces significant drawbacks such as the high technical complexity of the proposed solutions or the need for intervention of third-party systems in the transactions. Such problems can largely be attributed to the adopted architectures - primarily peer to peer and server based - that impose specific preconditions in the design and implementation of the systems. The present work is an attempt to define and justify a hybrid architecture that shares common elements with peer to peer and server based architectures and relies on emerging technologies and standards in order to achieve application to application interconnection and seamless information flow directly among heterogeneous systems. The approach implies the establishment of a server based environment that will provide all the necessary requirements for enterprise applications to interoperate, execute dynamic workflows and exchange business documents of different formats with applications and systems of other enterprises and governmental bodies.
Type:conference paper
URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/82264
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Business Models for Enterprise Interoperability Platforms
(Centre for Concurrent Enterprises, 2008-06-23)
Bucherer, Eva
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Hoyer, Volker
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Thoben, Klaus-Dieter
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S. Pawar, Kulwant
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Gonçalves, Ricardo
Today value creation is highly dependent on information and communication technology but also on cooperation between companies. The traditional value chain has been replaced by dynamic value networks. To support this new form of business, solutions for Enterprise Interoperability (EI) are indispensible. One possible form of solution constitutes EI platforms. To market them successfully adequate business models have to be found. Based on a business model framework this work evaluates factors that have to be considered in business models for EI platform providers. Moreover this work gives a concrete example of how a business model could look like in the concrete case of such a platform which is subject of the EU-funded research project GENESIS. In addition, possible implications are discussed.
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URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/78187
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Small and Medium Enterprise's Benefits of Next Generation e-Business Platforms
(The American Academy of Business and ABI/ Proquest, 2006-12-13)
Hoyer, Volker
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Janner, Till
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Mayer, Peter
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Raus, Marta
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Schroth, Christoph
In this work, we propose a novel e-Business architecture that takes into account the specific needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The envisioned system supports collaborative and evolutionary modeling, semi-automatic negotiation and finally execution of business processes and ensures true interoperability through a common semantic repository. Potential business partners are enabled to easily retrieve each other and initiate business relations in an extremely intuitive manner. With the help of the Balanced Scorecard approach, we thoroughly investigate economic benefits SMEs will experience when participating at this system. The analysis highlights advantages regarding five different perspectives: SMEs may capitalize from reduced operating costs and improved gains (financial perspective), increased customer satisfaction and retention (customer perspective), faster and more efficient internal processes (internal working process perspective), improved supply chain integration (supply chain perspective), and technological advancements (system benefits).
Type:journal article
Journal:The Business Review, Cambridge
Volume:10
Issue:2
URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/82193
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Brave New Web: Emerging Design Principles and Technologies as Enablers of a Global SOA
(IEEE Computer Society, 2007-07-09)
Schroth, Christoph
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Christ, Oliver
Web Services have experienced great interest during the last years as they were expected to play a key role as enablers of seamless application-to-application integration both within company boundaries and on a global, cross-organizational scale. As a technical foundation for the realization of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), Web Services encapsulate complexity inherent to individual applications and allow for their loose coupling. However, a truly global mesh of such services has not yet become reality due to various reasons. Novel technologies and design principles are currently about to emerge which allow human users to use, customize, combine, interconnect and finally expose Web-based content or functionality as new resources which are often referred to as Mash-ups. In this article, we provide an overview of existing Mash-ups as well as tools and platforms that empower users to build them in a highly efficient and intuitive fashion. Statistical data and case studies are leveraged to examine new ways of resource provision and consumption and also the relevance of upcoming intermediaries. Finally, we investigate remaining research challenges on the path to a truly global SOA. The Conference: http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2007/ Services now account for more than half of the U.S. economy. Services Computing, as a new cross discipline, addresses how to enable IT technology to help people perform business services more efficiently and effectively. Building on its great success in 2004, 2005, and 2006, The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007) continues to bridge the gap between Services Computing and Business models with an emerging suite of ground-breaking technology that includes service-oriented architecture, business process integration and management, grid/utility/autonomic computing, and Web 2.0. The theme of SCC 2007 is "Services: Science, Technology, and Business". SCC 2007 will be co-located with the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007). Both ICWS 2007 and SCC 2007 are the flagship conferences in 2007 IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2007) to celebrate their third gathering along with other events to explore "Services" (Science and Technology), which was promoted by IEEE Computer Society in 2003! IEEE Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Summit, IEEE International Services Computing Contest, IEEE SOA Standards Symposium, IEEE Services Computing Workshops, IEEE Services Computing Ph.D. Student Symposium will be featured at this joint event. Services Computing, as a new cross discipline, addresses how to enable IT and computing technology to help people perform business processes, services, and applications more efficiently and effectively. At the core of a business model is a set of processes that jointly help yield a profit in an organization. As we can see, Services Computing currently shapes the thinking of business modeling, business consulting, solution creation, service delivery, and software architecture design, development and deployment. The global nature of Services Computing leads to many opportunities and few challenges and creates a new networked economic structure for supporting different business models. SCC 2007 has the following three major research tracks: Foundations of Services Computing, Services-Centric Business Models, and Business Process Integration and Management. SCC 2007 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing. SCC 2004 was held in Shanghai, China, September 15-18, 2004 . SCC 2005 was co-located with ICWS 2005 on July 11-15, 2005 in Orlando, Florida, USA. SCC 2006 was co-located with ICWS 2006 on September 18-22, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The SCC Proceedings has been included in EI Compendex. SCC 2007 will concentrate on the science and technology of Business/Application Services and the bridging technologies such as Business Strategy and Design, Business Process Integration and Management, Grid and Utility Computing, and SOA Services and Solutions; while ICWS 2007 will continue to put its focus on all aspects of Web services from Computer Science and Engineering perspectives. http://www.christoph-schroth.de/
Type:conference paper
DOI:10.1109/SCC.2007.32
URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/80436
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