SME services in an open environment with demand on risk management

Large organisations tend to force suppliers to follow their rules in terms of IT and organisational solutions. Small and medium size enterprises (SME) have still no choice. Usually they have to follow the pressure and in a worst case to implement for each customer or supplier specific processes and IT solutions. Sometimes this results in additional cost and time consuming manual tasks. Therefore, SME require real and reliable, pluggable, cost and time-efficient solutions for the integration of their resources into network structures implying organizational, process, semantic and IT interoperability. Also, new cooperation challenges such as risk management compliance to European regulations need to be considered in the service provision. This requires a flexible configuration of services depending of the current business, legal and policy demands. The vision is the provision of the ability for enterprise interoperability by a flexible service invocation.