Rule-based Partner Relationship Management (PRM) for Collaborative e-business

The key factor of the current e-business is collaboration. It is especially crucial to Partner Relationship Management (PRM) that manages the collaborative relationships between a company and its partners and controls available conflicts. Therefore, business processes supporting the dynamic nature are to be implemented on information systems. To achieve it, collaborative processes that respond to various changes flexibly and promptly are to be applied to PRM. This paper suggests rule-based PRM that support PRM’s collaborative processes by rules that reflect business policies and processes, and indicates the implementation of a prototype that presents how rules are embodied in rule-based PRM.