eBusiness Process, Klagenfurt
24th-25th of October 2001
Klagenfurt. The conference eBusiness Process dedicated itself to eBusiness, business processes and to the topics of eSecurity. Also practice projects research beginnings were mentioned. Among other companies were represented such as BSI, TÜViT GmbH and Deutsche Post, the german main post office company. As European Union projects the projects INTELLECT and CAWICOMS were presented. L Ardisono of the University of Klagenfurt described the personal configurator, which the consortium developed constraint-based. The project has a run time of 28 months and does not pursues rule-based systems like today's configuring systems.
In addition there is the component of the personalisation, in order to address directly different users. Likewise different products and manufacturer are integrable. A first prototype is already finished, while a second prototype will be created within the project.
Whereas Kai-Oliver Detken presented the INTELLECT project. In this project a similar basic approach was pursued concerning the constraint based configuration. Both projects agreed that a rule-based implementation would be not manageable and supplies in today's solutions insufficient results.
However Detken spoke not exclusively about the modules, which are developed by the INTELLECT project and tested in different pilots. Furthermore he said that with the implementation of eBusiness processes a suitable communication platform should be structured.
This must meet the requirements of the today's request concerning Security, quality OF service (QoS) and Voice over IP (VoIPI). This is often ignored by software developers, which cannot deal with the network characteristics or they don't want to.
In the first place is the introduction of a security-platform. Subsequently, QoS mechanisms must be integrated on this platform, while finally real time services can be introduced such as VoIP.
Peter Tomczyk assumed itself a quite different topic on the second day. He presented an approach for the integration of product data on electronic market places. Today's market places would be coined by XML, whereby the integration of new/different products gets more simply. By further sub- and macrogroups in XML different product properties can be united further.
More general rudiments would be:
The predictability of legal decisions is absolutely necessary. An evidentiary document can only be developed if the operational sequences can be reconstructed lying behind of the data processing in all indexing steps! With adoption of the signature-set and the signature regulation it will be improved that the document is getting more sevure and unadulterated.
Today still the civil law book is applied to digital documents. That signature-set contains the digital signature, security by encoding and the comprehensibleness of the exhibitor. The general check of archiving is reconstructed by access protection, processes, test, coworker qualification, technical operation and description of the internal control system by the TüV.
Practical checks (audits) take place every 2 years, which usually monitor the qualification targets and system auditing and document check on voluntary base. The standardisation of the check lists and examination reports will be pushed further on.
S. Lorenz of the German post office Com GmbH presented the new product "eKurier", in order to enable thereby the safe, comprehensible and valid document dispatch over the Internet. The product offers safe eMail based communication, which contains the following characteristics:
There is still another safety problem: Macros may not be encoded no more, since they are not trustworthy! Co-operation projects with post offices of other countries are available today to initialize uniform standards. They will fail however according to the adviser or further will not even start, becuase the interests are too different!
T. Blecker of the University Klagenfurt presented IP based business processes in industrial enterprises. Today only web pages would be State of the art. Future fields of work for IP based services would be:
At the moment different beginnings are pursued. On the one hand existing field bus systems are coupled with the Intranet. On the other hand there are Ethernet application, in order to receive constant IP based systems. Today IP technologies have the following request: