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More and more companies are realising that business is best carried out in project-based virtual alliances and are intensively networking and collaborating with partner companies. This requires convergent, adaptive, and interoperable IT environments ready to support flexible, loosely coupled networked enterprises, anywhere, anytime - regardless of heterogeneous systems and applications in use. In this paper, a methodology for gathering and analysing user requirements is applied which is specifically tailored for incorporating multi-party views such as necessary for the development of collaboration platforms to support virtual alliances and to prove its significance in a real-world case study. The work presented is performed within the SPIKE project, focusing on the technical, methodological and organisational support of short-term and project-based business alliances between organisations of all types and sizes.
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Broser, C., Fritsch, C., Gmelch, O., Pernul, G., Schillinger, R., Wiesbeck, S. (2010). Analysing Requirements for Virtual Business Alliances – The Case of SPIKE. In: Telesca, L., Stanoevska-Slabeva, K., Rakocevic, V. (eds) Digital Business. DigiBiz 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11532-5_5
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