A Business-Context-Based Approach for Message Standards Use - A Validation Study

While necessary for a successful integration of enterprise services and business-to-business (B2B) applications, message standards can be difficult to use. This paper proposes an innovative, business-context approach and a software tool that we believe can overcome those difficulties. To accomplish both, the paper shows how the business-context approach and the new tool address difficult issues common to traditional approaches of using message standards. The paper also identifies research questions that need to be addressed to increase scalability of the new approach and tool.