Fundamentals of Information Systems Interoperability

Stefanie Rinderle-Ma is Full Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and head of the Chair of Information Systems and Business Process Management. Her research focuses on distributed and flexible process technology, enterprise application integration, and business intelligence. Stefanie has more than 300 publications with over 11000 citations, developed and taught a master course on interoperability at several universities, and co-authored the Springer book on Fundamentals of Business Intelligence (with W. Grossmann) which was published in 2015.  Stefanie has also led several industry projects with strong interoperability challenges, e.g., in the manufacturing and health care domain. Jürgen Mangler holds a PhD in Business Informatics from the University of Vienna and works as senior postdoc at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is chief developer of the open-source process execution engine CPEE. Juergen has gained deep insightsinto interoperability concepts and their realizations during several research projects such as the EU FP7 project ADVENTURE and the Austrian Center of Digital Production. The latter dealt with challenges in the vertical and horizontal integration of data, machines, systems, and humans. Juergen has taught various software engineering related topics since 2004.Daniel Ritter holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Vienna and works as central database architect at SAP SE for SAP HANA Cloud and OrientDB. He is a postdoctoral researcher in the SAP HANA Research Campus and from 2021 to 2022, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Potsdam, where he led the Autonomous Data Managament group at the Hasso Plattner Institute. He has 20+ years of experience in large-scale software development projects and was a central architect of SAP's Cloud Integration solution.

• Preface.- Introduction. - From Databases to Exchange Formats.-  Transformation and Integration of Exchange Formats.- Service Interoperability.- Process Orchestration: Conceptual Design.- Process Orchestration: Execution Design.- Integration Patterns and Processes.- Process Choreography.- Conclusion and Further Interoperability Aspects.- References. - Index.