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The Vision e-Company Research Program investigates how information exchanges, out-sourcing and process cooperation will change professional links within and between businesses and determine the standards, which will become the norm in e-business. This paper gives an overview of the projects launched in the scope of this program and presents their main results concerning extended and virtual enterprises. It introduces in particular: a communication services infrastructures for collaborative processes that reduces the information overflow within horizontal enterprise organizations, several ways for sharing and integrating customer knowledge, a portal for building virtual enterprises through partnerships, a method for analyzing the impact of enterprises e-transformations, an infrastructure for hosting and managing business processes of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME).
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- Virtual Organization
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Bouron, T. (2004). Vision E-Company: The Network-Centric Enterprises. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds) Processes and Foundations for Virtual Organizations. PRO-VE 2003. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 134. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35704-1_6
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