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The dissemination of e-Business solutions among small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is still very low due to various reasons. In the course of the GENESIS project, we aim at designing and deploying a novel e-Business platform that removes entry barriers for these SMEs. We present a living platform that grows over time and provides users with the possibility to seamlessly model and setup business relations with other users and execute these on the basis of a collaboratively designed standard. To achieve interoperability on both a business process and data level, we propose a novel, integrated modeling concept which is partly based on different existing standards such as the ISO 15000-5 CCTS specification (developed by UN/CEFACT). Our approach enables users to intuitively model and setup the unique processes and business documents they are willing to support while adhering to a common repository of data and process components. In this way, we ensurecross-organizational interoperability, facilitate reuse of existing components and leverage the emerging industry standard issued by UN/CEFACT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the last years, electronic enterprise collaboration has significantly increased. To seamlessly integrate applications across company boundaries, all stakeholders have to adhere to common standards. Currently, cross-organizational business relationships are being setup based on a wide variety of existing standards that involve different technical representations, semantics and process specifications. 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. In this work, we propose a novel approach towards the realization of enterprise application integration: Not the creation of yet another e-Business standard, but the joint agreement and implementation of an adequate standard among a critical mass of companies will foster enterprise interoperability. The Enterprise Interoperability Center (EIC) is envisioned to promote this approach and to provide users a platform to jointly create and agree upon reference business processes and to document that work as templates for the setup of cross-organizational business collaborations. In this work, we thoroughly elaborate on the EIC goals and paradigms, analyze the target market and present ways to successfully disseminate this newly established center. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]