Semantic Technologies for Managing Complex Product Information in Enterprise Systems

摘要

Today, business transactions, including business processes and data management, are almost entirely electronic in nature. With regards to product information, enterprises are faced with the challenge of how to handle more and more information about products. Also, products information is getting more complex as enterprises tend to produce and offer more customizable products. Information systems of enterprises need functions based on specific technologies to be able to reduce and interpret the complexity of product information. This paper pursues the question, how the state of the art in information systems can be improved by the use of semantic technologies. For this purpose, three use cases of product information systems to be improved are described and approaches based on semantic technologies are proposed. The selected use cases are data integration, data quality and workflow integration.