Harmonisation of standards for eenterprise integration - an urgent need
Abstract
Business globalisation requires fast and easy exchange of products, services and all related information. This can most easily be achieved through global standards. Unfortunately the area of standards is rather fragmented itself with national and interna-tional standardisation on one side and industry driven initiatives on the other side. Even within the international standardisation scene there are competing standards with large overlaps, ambiguous terminology and even contradicting contents. The paper demon-strates the needs for harmonisations of standards using a particular example from inter-national standardisation. Two standards developed in ISO and in IEC are compared and needs for harmonisations are identified.
