Using Web Services to Create the Collaborative Model for Enterprise Digital Content Portal

In the Knowledge Economy era, trying to promote the whole competition advantage, the electronic businesses utilize information technology and internet to integrate the various kinds of application systems, database, and platform. It becomes common practice to construct an Enterprise Digital Content Portal (EDCP). To vary from minute to minute, coming to the problem of business environment is so difficult to integrate the complicated and huge amount information. By the way of collaboration of EDCP and the information of trade partners, it can provide the customers the real-time information that appearing with dynamic various timing. Through the combine of the information and procedure that between the enterprise and it’s business partner, it can use the assisting of information technology, improve the enterprise’s internal and external operational procedures, raise the transparency of information in the value chain, achieve the purpose that sharing information with different platform and language. In order to combine the different kinds of platform’s information between the different enterprises, we use Java technologies for web services in the construction and development of EDCP, use the Extended Markup Language, and the Web-based communication protocol, it communicates with other software system [1], accomplish the framework of the knowledge service platform that the enterprise deliver and communicate the internal and external information. In this paper, we propose the construction structure of the EDCP that using Web Services, we implement it into one case and utilize WebBench to be the analyzed tool that testing the efficiency when many people connect to the line at the same time, and prove the feasibility of this framework of the module. And we probe into the relevant literatures of collaboration, and make up the deficiency of relevant literatures in the past. Conduct to be the reference of the research that the enterprise and organization establish the relation of collaboration using EDCP in the future.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Information Management, Da-Yeh University, 112 Shan-Jiau Rd., Da-Tusen, Chang-hua, 51505, Taiwan

   Ruey-Ming Chao & Chin-Wen Yang

Editors and Affiliations

1. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Block S1, Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

   Lipo Wang

2. Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany

   Yaochu Jin

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