FUSION Approach Overview
The FUSION solution will invoke the creation, administration and deployment of Web Services Instances
of the pre-selected features of the enterprise applications and their semantic description (Semantic Profile)
based on a business concept model – called FUSION ontology – that serves as a common reference
allowing the semantic integration of the business applications. The deployed Web Services Instances will
be published at a semantic-enriched UDDI service registry, while the created Semantic Profiles of Web
Services Instances will be registered in the FUSION semantically-enriched registry, which is part of the
FUSION Semantic Repository16, powering the system-integrated categorization and discovery services.
The way we envision business analysts to work with the FUSION solution is that they:
- define the concepts that exist inside the business application (e.g. product, contact, order, etc) and use
well-defined business ontologies / concept models that are independent from the technical architecture
of the business application
- associate the concepts and services with the business application repository / resources
- create and administrate Web Services Instances, create semantic profiles of Web Services Instances
and publish the profiles on the FUSION semantically-enriched registry, and
- orchestrate aggregate compositions of semantic web services based on FUSION-enabled descriptions
of various business applications
As mentioned above, the FUSION solution may be applied on either Intra-Organizational Enterprise
Application Integration or Inter-Organizational Enterprise Application Integration to support semantic
workflows and added-value supply chains.
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