Service Oriented Organization for Cross-Enterprise Processes and Distributed Transactions

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are rapidly growing areas that are gaining substantial attention in the cross-enterprises collaborations. The emerging techniques of CIT open the way for enterprise to achieve their common business goals by using the facilities of the web as an infrastructure. This chapter proposes three-layer architecture to enact a common Business Process by means of Web Services. It particularly develops a distributed transactional management support to orchestrate loosely coupled services into cohesive units of work and guarantee consistent and reliable execution. Thus, the necessary definitions and algorithms that can consistently maintain shared data are provided offering potentially spanning multiple autonomous information systems and local workflows of the collaborative enterprises. The Three levels architecture allows the different partners to adjust their own private processes without impacting the global process. © 2006