BUSINESS RULE
The business rule for smart data would say something like the following: Make data exchangeable enterprise wide by requiring members to map data from their unique environment to a neutral mechanism for exchange. If a member is already employing the neutral exchange mechanism, then it would not be required to do anything. If a member has a proprietary or different application standard, then it would map data one time to the neutral exchange after which exchange would be automatic.
Since members of the community are likely to have some of the same proprietary or other application formats, when one enterprise member performs the mapping, with agreement, others may leverage it. Under a smart data strategy, enterprise participants collaborate to address such diversity from which participants would accelerate resolution and achievement of automated exchange. Efficiency is a logical outcome. The intent is to greatly reduce the amount of labor intensity required to support data exchange, while greatly increasing actionable information for executive use.
The neutral exchange translator affords robust utility for enterprise participants, for which various options regarding deployment exit, ranging from dispersed exchange servers to centralized services and combinations thereof depending on the unique needs of member participants and their respective enterprises. Participation in supply chains has provided the organizing force for similar challenges, and that may serve application ...
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