A Mashup Tool for Collaborative Engineering of Service-oriented Enterprise Documents

Enterprise documents combine the representation of organizational processes and rules with knowledge and data to support human communication in a visual appealing and possibly interactive way. These characteristics are not only beneficial for the support of highly structured and optimized business processes but can be also leveraged to drive ad hoc collaborative innovation processes. However, collaborative authoring requires content consolidation and coordination mechanisms and while IT-supported document engineering for structured and recurring collaboration processes is well established, engineering of documents that emerge and evolve instantaneously still lacks appropriate support. Subsequently we present the MoSaiC tool for collaborative document engineering: MoSaiC supports a new type of service-oriented enterprise documents that are represented as mashups of content creation, transformation and publication services. This ‘living’ format supports teams to rapidly regulate and control collaborative activities by mapping them to services provided by team members or enterprise systems and mashing them into document structure and rules in an interactive, intuitive and dynamic way.