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IntroductionThe Research Studio Public Private Interoperability (PPI) develops methods and tools targeting the inter-organizational integration of enterprises and organizations of the public sector. Service-oriented architectures and their implementation by Web Services are the current state-of-the-art technologies for this kind of integration problems. However, Web Services are agnostic toward the structure of the information / documents being exchanged. The studio PPI focuses on the exchanged business documents and considers a model-driven approach for the definition of the interfaces. The resulting method and a corresponding tool set have to provide a mix between re-usable document building blocks and business context specific adaptation of business documents. The method must not be limited to a single business document standard language or business document ontology. PPI delivers concepts for the platform-independent definition of business documents as well as for the transformation between different business document standards / ontologies. Evidently, PPI integrates existing, well accepted business document standards, like UBL 2.0, into its prototypical implementation of a tool set. The re-engineering of existing business document standards will reduce time and costs in the development of new business interoperability interfaces and will allow the platform-specific transformation between business document standards. Development
The VIENNA Add-In (Visualizing Inter ENterprise Network Architectures) is an extension to the UML modeling tool Enterprise Architect for modeling B2B collaborations. The development of the VIENNA Add-In is currently carried out in the Public Private Interoperability (PPI) project of the Research Studio Inter Organisational Systems (IOS). In the following video the benefits of using our Core Components approach are illustrated. OverviewUsing the two technologies a business process modeler can unambiguously define inter-organizational business processes and business documents on a technology independent level. The platform independent models may be used to derive platform specific artifacts for service oriented architectures e.g. BPEL, WSDL, XSD.
(Click on the image for a full-size image) The VIENNA Add-In supports UN/CEFACT's Modeling Methodology (UMM) and the UML Profile for Core Components (UPCC). More information on the UMM and UPCC standard can be found on the development site http://www.umm-dev.org DocumentationSee our Getting Started guide for instructions on how to use the VIENNA Add-In. We also provide a sample scenario, the Passport Modeling Example to demonstrate important features. If you are experienced with UML modeling but never used Enterprise Architect before have a look at our wiki. The VIENNA Add-In is Open Source! Developers are welcome to participate - information on the developement process is available at the Developer infos section in our wiki. PublicationsAn overview of current publications in the scope of our project is available here. These papers include further information on the development and basic principles of the VIENNA Add-In project. FundingThe work of Research Studios Austria is funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research. Furthermore, this work has been carried out under the research grant Public Private Interoperability (No. 818639) of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).
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