Multi-level ontology integration model for business collaboration

According to the current situation of the enterprise informatization, a large number of legacy systems (databases, programs, etc.) need to be integrated, different application systems (PDM, ERP, SCM, CRM, etc.) need to interact, and enterprise business needs close collaboration. This paper build an architecture to integrate heterogeneous systems for enterprise business collaboration. It proposed product ontology model, software component ontology model and business process ontology model for heterogeneous system integration, to solve the problem of product knowledge heterogeneous, software components heterogeneous, and business process heterogeneous in collaborative business processes. Based on this, a prototype of platform is given. The research of this paper is of important theoretical significance and provides a new architecture and implementation method for the integration of heterogeneous systems based on business collaboration. © 2016, Springer-Verlag London.