Digital Business. First Iternational ICST Conference, DigiBiz 2009, London, UK, June 17-19, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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Analysing Requirements for Virtual Business Alliances – The Case of SPIKE

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11532-5_5,
        author={Christian Broser and Christoph Fritsch and Oliver Gmelch and G\'{y}nther Pernul and Rolf Schillinger and Sandra Wiesbeck},
        title={Analysing Requirements for Virtual Business Alliances -- The Case of SPIKE},
        proceedings={Digital Business. First Iternational ICST Conference, DigiBiz 2009, London, UK, June 17-19, 2009, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={DIGIBIZ},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={Collaboration networked enterprise virtual alliance collecting and engineering requirements},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11532-5_5}
    }
    
  • Christian Broser
    Christoph Fritsch
    Oliver Gmelch
    Günther Pernul
    Rolf Schillinger
    Sandra Wiesbeck
    Year: 2012
    Analysing Requirements for Virtual Business Alliances – The Case of SPIKE
    DIGIBIZ
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11532-5_5
Christian Broser1,*, Christoph Fritsch1,*, Oliver Gmelch1,*, Günther Pernul1,*, Rolf Schillinger1,*, Sandra Wiesbeck2,*
  • 1: University of Regensburg
  • 2: IT-Inkubator Ostbayern GmbH
*Contact email: christian.broser@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de, christoph.fritsch@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de, oliver.gmelch@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de, guenther.pernul@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de, rolf.schillinger@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de, sandra.wiesbeck@it-speicher.de

Abstract

More and more companies are realising that business is best carried out in project-based virtual alliances and are intensively networking and collaborating with partner companies. This requires convergent, adaptive, and interoperable IT environments ready to support flexible, loosely coupled networked enterprises, anywhere, anytime - regardless of heterogeneous systems and applications in use. In this paper, a methodology for gathering and analysing user requirements is applied which is specifically tailored for incorporating multi-party views such as necessary for the development of collaboration platforms to support virtual alliances and to prove its significance in a real-world case study. The work presented is performed within the SPIKE project, focusing on the technical, methodological and organisational support of short-term and project-based business alliances between organisations of all types and sizes.