Information Integration Problem in B2B Relationships – A State-of-the-art

Abstract. In business-to-business (B2B) relationships, enterprises share heterogeneous and distributed information that is the result of decision-making activities involved in inter-enterprise and intra-enterprise processes. The problem of bringing together heterogeneous and distributed computer systems is known as interoperability problem. Interoperability has to be provided on a technical and on an information level. The focus of this paper is to present the backgroung of information interoperability problem in B2B relationships and to identify the challenges in this area