Web service-enabled collaborative corporate environmental management information systems

In this chapter authors present the Web Service-enabled CCEMIS solution that is mainly relying on the idea of supplying Web Services from different CEMISs to handle corporate environmental issues. This solution reduces the efforts to achieve a legal compliance environmental management. It proposes an environmental collaboration between companies via summing up all the required information from different involved players in form of Web Services. In this solution, the companies will act as consumers and providers at the same time. They are both requesting and supplying environmental data. They maintain their identities by not revealing the information regarding their resource details. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011.