FUSION objectives
The FUSION project aims at the efficient business
collaboration and interconnection between SMEs by developing a framework and innovative
technologies for the semantic fusion of service-oriented businesses applications that are likely to exist
in the near future within an enterprise or in several collaborating companies, taking into consideration
the intercultural and regulatory aspects of the enlarged European countries. Thus the FUSION project
will have a three-fold focus that will be achieved through the following research and innovation related
activities:
- FUSION aims at the development of an innovative approach, methodology and integration
mechanism for the semantic integration of a heterogeneous set of business applications (ERP and
CRM applications from different technology providers), platforms and languages within SMEs.
- FUSION aims at the integration of research activities carried out in the Enlarged Europe in the areas
of Business Process Management, Semantic Web and Web Services.
- FUSION aims at the validation of research results by developing proof-of-concept pilots in
collaborative commerce across semantically-enriched supply chains and value networks across the
Enlarged Europe. In particular, the FUSION approach, methodology and integration mechanism will
facilitate three trans-national cases, each of which has operations spanning the Enlarged Europe.
FUSION expected results
The 30-month FUSION project will, finally, result, through the FUSION deliverables (both reports and
prototypes), in:
- An innovative FUSION approach for Semantic Service-oriented Business Application
integration
- The FUSION Methodology for Semantic Service-oriented Business Application Integration that
will facilitate the integration of business software applications
- The FUSION Ontology
- The FUSION integration mechanism that will allow the interconnection of heterogeneous
information systems, resource sharing and services provision
- Three FUSION cases that will prove the concepts and tools of the solution, concerning three different
“Enlarged Europe” use cases
- Wide-scale dissemination and exploitation of the project results
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