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Business process integration through XML
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Business to Business (B2B) e-commerce is driving a new generation of
Internet applications that will use XML as a model for sharing documents and
information between organizations. Sophisticated B2B applications can dramatically
automate business transactions and processes between organizations only if
the business systems and data that drive the processes are integrated between
the trading partners. While XML can greatly alleviate incompatibility between
disparate applications, B2B applications can only automate business processes
if there is an ability to describe collaborative workflows across organizations
as well as providing data interoperability. This paper describes a system
which can use XML document standards with an associated workflow engine for
integrating business processes as well as applications and data via XML.