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Business process interoperability (BPI) is a property referring to the ability of diverse business processes to work together, to so called "inter-operate".〔Christina Tsagkani (2005) "(Inter-Organisational Collaboration on the Process Layer )". ''Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM SIGAPP INTEROP-ESA conference, February 23–25, Geneva, Switzerland'', Springer Science publisher. Tsagkani states: :''Business process interoperability is characterised as the ability of business activities of one party to interact with those of another party, whether or not these business activities belong to different units of the same business or to different businesses''.〕 It is a state that exists when a business process can meet a specific objective automatically utilizing essential human labor only. Typically, BPI is present when a process conforms to standards that enable it to achieve its objective regardless of ownership, location, make, version or design of the computer systems used. == Overview == The main attraction of BPI is that a business process can start and finish at any point worldwide regardless of the types of hardware and software required to automate it. Because of its capacity to offload human "mind" labor, BPI is considered by many as the final stage in the evolution of business computing. BPI's twin criteria of ''specific objective'' and ''essential human labor'' are both subjective. The objectives of BPI vary, but tend to fall into the following categories: * Enable end-to-end straight-through processing ("STP") by interconnecting data and procedures trapped in information silos * Let systems and products work with other systems or products without special effort on the part of the customer * Increase productivity by automating human labor * Eliminate redundant business processes and data replications * Minimize errors inherent in manual processes * Introduce mainstream enterprise software-as-a-service * Give top managers a practical means of overseeing processes used to run business operations * Encourage development of innovative Internet-based business processes * Place emphasis on business processes rather than on the systems required to operate them * Strengthen security by eliminating gaps among proprietary software systems * Improve privacy by giving users complete control over their data * Enable realtime enterprise scenarios and forecasts Business process interoperability is limited to enterprise software systems in which functions are designed to work together, such as a payroll module and a general ledger module that are part of the same program suite, and in controlled software environments that use EDI. Interoperability is also present between incompatible systems where middleware has been applied. In each of these cases, however, the processes seldom meet the test of BPI because they are constrained by information silos and the systems' inability to freely communicate among each other. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Business process interoperability」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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