Advances in e-Business collaboration: Semantic web services in SAP R/3 B2B integration

With growing number of electronic services in business, automated support for discovery of services, their composition and invocation is required. In this paper we show, how-semantic web services concepts and execution environment integrated with SAP R/3 could be used to promote e-business collaboration among business partners. We first introduce concepts for semantic web services and semantic web services execution environment known as WSMX. We describe SAP R/3 integration solutions and accordingly, show how WSMX could be integrated with SAP R/3 with respect to these solutions and latest integration technologies. Finally, we describe dynamic supply, chain scenario and illustrate interactions of a service requester with services providers using WSMX platform.