With VENIS cooperation among companies becomes easy, efficient, flexible and secure

The results of the European VENIS (Virtual Enterprises by Networked Interoperability Services) project were presented today to companies in the sector at an international event hosted in the prestigious Sophia Antipolis technology park in France.

The project, led by Engineering through the homonymous consortium of 7 partners from 5 European countries (Italy, France, Germany, Greece and Slovakia), was created with the goal of reducing the technological interoperability gap among small, medium and large companies in the context of e-business. In fact, in an increasingly demanding and constantly changing global market, cooperation among the companies is growing and becoming a point of strength.

In general, continuous exchange of documents on the web or via e-mail may involve certain risks, including uncertainty about the level of security with which the documents are exchanged, difficulty in managing authorisations and ensuring the right privacy, complexity in finding information (due to the lack of advanced search systems), and the problem of keeping track of the activities performed during cooperation.

'Companies that find themselves wishing to work together often use different technological instruments for sharing documents and information,' says project coordinator Marco Alessi of Engineering. 'Today, there are various useful instruments for sharing documents but companies do not always want to change the way they work and often are not willing to upload documents that are not directly under their control into the repository'.

To accommodate the needs expressed by small, medium and large companies, the VENIS consortium developed a technological solution which allows to create and manage flexible and efficient business collaborations, safely sharing documents and information. The VENIS platform also offers an effective semantic search engine, built on the entity recognition paradigm, which involves the search for entities connected by relations, placed in relationship through a shared logic. By simply 'hooking' VENIS to any management system, it is possible to continue using the instrument of choice for storing and exchanging documents, deciding who to share them with whom and with which authorisations. The recipient can thus use the VENIS dashboard to access shared documents, read them, possibly edit them and share them in turn. All of these activities are monitored on a daily basis through integrated management of workflow and a system of automatic signalling and start-up of processes.

For more information about the project: www.venis-project.eu

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