Enterprises interoperability is the emerging need in Europe for joint projects and business facing new marketing challenges. In multi-partners projects and business, aimed at developing innovative joint products, Large Enterprises suffer from a lack of synergy and cohesion with the Small-Medium and Micro Enterprises, due to the missing sharing of project information, knowledge, workflows, etc. 

A novel level of integration is expected, while guaranteeing the intellectual property rights and preserving the already existing company management processes fixed in years of past activity. The VENIS project is aimed at providing  a new level of interoperability between Large and Small Enterprises, according to "Virtual Enterprise" paradigm:

The VENIS results will be disseminated on the Web and in International Conferences. Boosted by VENIS results, the involved Enterprises expect to improve their competitive edge in joint projects, by receiving a significant advantage in their business, measurable in 20-30% increase.

 

The introduction of a service-based interaction, with the benefit to interoperate with the existing IT infrastructure and procedures:

An easy-to-use approach, using existing legacy email interfaces to manage smarter and faster huge amount of information and to create interactive knowledge pools;
 

The joint business approach, where the flow of the joint activities are assisted by an interactive environment where all the related information are available, coming from different enterprises duly networked;

The modular approach offered by VENIS, with the possibility to adopt different functional layers, able to smooth the transition between the current way of working and the future collaborative environments.