The SPIKE project: Secure Process-oriented Integrative Service Infrastructure for Networked Enterprises

Abstract. The SPIKE project, described in this paper, is an EU FP7 ICT project aimed at development of a software service platform for easy and fast start-up of virtual business alliances. Employing the business process modelling meth-ods and semantic technologies, the envisioned system will simplify collabora-tion between networked enterprises through both dynamically created and pre-defined business processes and workflows. Besides the basic facts and objec-tives of the project, the paper presents an initial architecture design, surveying main system components and data elements together with a brief functional de-scription. 1 Project Description The business networking based on interoperable services provided and consumed within a dynamic and cooperative environment was identified by the European Com-mission in the 7th Framework Programme as a promising answer to the challenges of global market pressures [3]. The emerging technologies such as semantically en-hanced Web services in connection with business process modelling frameworks giv