Business interoperability interface

This description implies that the main objective of the BII is to describe to collaboration partners how they can interact with an organization.

In a similar vein it was argued, that previous interoperability definitions focused too much on technical aspects.

[5] The BII contents are not restricted to process descriptions: in order to enact a collaborative business process, the collaboration partners do not only need to know the sequence in which activities are executed but also require complementary information like organizational roles, specifics of individual activities or document types.

[6] The illustration summarizes the idea of this BII implementation: Organization A and B each has an internal/private view on its information system.

The BII described there tackles four enterprise dimensions: In the organization dimension, roles, units and other organization elements relevant for the collaboration are described and related to internal elements.