E-Partner: Partnership Match for an Extended Enterprise

Abstract

Companies are increasingly moving towards globalization due to advancement in ICT and communication technologies. However, a phobia still grips them about establishing a partnership that spans geographically distributed location. In this work, we reviewed the problems that companies confront while forging partnerships. Drawn upon the review, we select a set of attributes and construct an attribute ontology that provides a common platform for defining requirement which is machine process able. Architecture is presented for establishing partnership between small and medium sized enterprise, define similarity measure for finding match between partners. Also a proof of concept is discussed to demonstrate and validate the proposed architecture.