Electronic commerce and multi-enterprise supply/value/business chains

As we create new on-line businesses with the speed of lightning their affiliated supply, finance and business communities - which are involved in more and more tightly connected, open trading - we find that we need to deal with hundreds of business partners, millions of buyers and sellers while we have to face incompatible IT systems. Challenges of linking multi-enterprise data and processes cost effectively, reliably and securely in real time remains an open area in e-commerce. This challenge we shall describe as the problem of synchronization of multiple enterprise supply (production related)/value (finance related)/business (operations related) chains with chains and chains of chains. Triada brings a new e-commerce infrastructure into this challenge: by extracting and tracking information, new trends in the events of processes, the problem is reduced to sharing a sub-compact set of associations instead of sharing data. The mathematical properties of the association space, such as sub-compactness, and asymptotic stability enables us to share the information instantaneously within multi-enterprise chains and chains of chains. Triada technology is an inflection point in the attempt to solve this problem by advocating "start sharing information/knowledge (information in action)/wisdom (knowledge in action)" within your chains and chains of chains. It is an information integration (II) e-commerce tool. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.