Secure Process-oriented Infrastructure for Networked Enterprises

Abstract. The paper describes the FP7 ICT EU project SPIKE, aiming at the development of a software platform for secure, flexible, and project-oriented collaboration of business organisations within a temporary alliance. The project objectives, overall vision of the solution, and related research approaches are presented as a background for designing the system architecture. Functional components identified for the SPIKE platform are described together with the respective technology foundations. Focus is especially given to the integration of service-oriented architecture, business process modelling, and semantic technologies. The paper presents the system prototype as it was designed for the first trial of pilot applications