An Architecture for Cross-organization Business Process Integration

In the age of global economy, the cooperation among enterprises is becoming more and more frequent and important. Although many enterprises have constructed their own information systems to help intro-enterprise management, challenges of integrating multi-organization data and processes cost effectively, reliably and securely in the real time and maintaining clear paths of communication and collaboration throughout the complex network remains an open area in e-manufacturing. In this paper after a survey into the cross-organization cooperat ion scene, the atomic cooperation process pattern and their execution mode, and an analysis of the limitation of the prevailing “business service” model, a new architecture for cross-organization business process is proposed to meet this end. And one of it s important parts, the novel agreement model is also addressed. This architecture is already used as a guideline of IPP-SYS, a national 985 project.