Collaboration between services using a B2B Platform in the retail environment

Álvaro Sánchez-Picot
+ and Diego Sánchez de Rivera
 

Department de Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
{alvaro.spicot, diego.sanchezderiveracordoba}@gmail.es

 

Abstract

Service collaboration is an efficient way to enable the interconnection between different business entities. General platforms are used to obtain a connection between the provision and consumption of data and this can place several actors in the same context taking advantage of the business architect figure, which is the one responsible of defining the business logic implemented in the business process. In this paper we describe a platform that manages the exchange of product information in a retail environment through business collaboration making use of a platform created for such specific task. The proposed tool uses B2B and is deployed in a cloud platform that provides support for the business logic and the collaboration between business partners. The system is validated implementing certain applications that allow partners in the food chain such as farmers, transportation companies or supermarkets, to share information between them.

 

Keywords: Future Internet, generic enabler, business process, business architect, capability

 

+: Corresponding author: Álvaro Sánchez-Picot
Department de Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Av.
Complutense 30, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Tel: +34 91 549 57 00 ext. 3016


IT Convergence Practice
 (INPRA), Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 36-45, June 2015 [pdf]