AN ANALYSIS OF B2B CATALOGUE INTEGRATION PROBLEMS: Content and Document Integration

摘要

Recent development of the Web opens new possibilities for business-to-business electronic commerce, and enterprise application integration. To employ these possibilities a new transformation technology able to perform content and document integration need to emerge. The enterprises use thousands of different ways to classify their products and to specify business documents, and a number of standards were developed to organize this information, as discussed in the paper. The marketplaces must be able to transform the information presented according to these standards. The large number of standards and their significant complexity make the integration problems non-trivial and require development of special integration architecture. In the present paper we discuss the tasks and the problems, which occur during the content and document integration, and survey possible solutions and available techniques.