Model-based architecture for the Intranet

We propose a system called CEE (Cooperative Environment for Enterprise-computing) which is based on a new architecture for the Intranet. CEE works based on the enterprise model which consists of the organization, business function/process conforming to IDEFO, and resources such as persons and documents. CEE integrates enterprise information and applications based on the enterprise model and enable the following functions on the WWW. 1) CEE automatically generates and maintains WWW pages and links according to business objects in the enterprise model. 2) CEE manages documents linked to the enterprise model and provides check-in/out and version control functions. 3) CEE promotes concurrent engineering by providing notification on the creation or modification of the output document of a process to the succeeding processes. 4) CEE provides document-based project management on the IDEFO chart in addition to traditional time-based project management on the Gantt chart.