Enterprise interoperability is the ability of an enterprise—a company or other large organization—to functionally link activities, such as product design, supply chains, manufacturing, in an efficient and competitive way.
The application of EA methodology feeds the enterprise repository reference frame with sets of building blocks used to compose the targeted system.
To preserve interoperability, several enterprise interoperability frameworks can be identified in the literature: The majority of these frameworks considers enterprise at several aspects, viewpoints or abstraction levels: business, process, knowledge, application, technology, data, technic, etc.
Setting up and applying guidelines and methodologies developed within these frameworks requires modeling efforts that identify and connect artifacts.
Interoperability efforts are still mainly expected among these levels: Dealing with business process definition, alignment, collaboration and interoperability, several international standards propose methodologies and guidelines in these perspectives: In addition, recent standards (BPMN, BPEL, etc.)