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collaboration capabilities of e-Businessare controlled, made visible, and shared(i) locating partners, capabilities,(ii) interacting with partners subsidiaries,elements, etc.) and non-XML artifactsas details (metadata) about the artifacts.database) that holds the information system that maintains themetadata for the registered objects is http://www.oasis-open.org OASIS. A standards body that is working e- B usiness issues at many levels and perspectives Enables collaborative development.Empowers users to be both customerto implementation (and status)Promotes unified understanding ofand interoperability between tradingpartners, and facilitates greater reuseAllows people and machines ofmultiple enterprises to exchangeindustry models, such as, UBL, PIPs,and prepares the Enterprise for new The Business-Centric Methodology (BCM)is a complementary approach to currentconstructing business-oriented services constraints while achieving semanticexperts as well as betweenEnterprise applications and theirExploits the dynamic nature of a top-down approach during newdevelopment effortsa bottom-up approach whendealing with legacy systems, andbuilding from the middle-out when layerunderstanding of the semantics byaligning the terminology of the businessand uncov

ers the real meaning of thebe extracted and interpolated to higher-level business aggregateslayer develops an understandingaccomplish and constrains them accordingpatterns. layer provides outreach formapping the Target Constructs to thebodies, and internal legacy systemImplementationlayer provides in-depthinformation in a business usage contextpatterns within the information anddomain experts and technologists byencapsulating: - motive & rules – timing & events – location – services & functions – stakeholders & roles[1] data appears to have the same sameschemes differ significantly (e.g.,synonyms and homonyms) the ConceptualLayer uses authoritative definitionsembedded in Community of Practicespecific Data Dictionaries, Lexicons,Taxonomies, Thesauri, Topic Maps and BCM is a comprehensive approach forreducing unneeded risk by providingAdditionally, the BCM focuses onincreasing value and reducingdevelopment time, integration resourcethrough reuse and coordination of efforts.agreements, semantics, and rules ofand partnership developmentcorporate data into context-specificBy separating the technical solutionfrom the business infrastructure andbridging the differences betweenand departments mike.lubash@dfas.mil Carl Mattocks CarlMattocks@checkmi.com