Business process interoperability

Business process interoperability (BPI) is a property referring to the ability of diverse business processes to work together, to so called "inter-operate".^[1] It is a state that exists when a business process can meet a specific objective automatically utilizing essential human labor only. Typically, BPI is present when a process conforms to standards that enable it to achieve its objective regardless of ownership, location, make, version or design of the computer systems used.

^ Christina Tsagkani (2005) "Inter-Organisational Collaboration on the Process Layer". Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM SIGAPP INTEROP-ESA conference, February 23–25, Geneva, Switzerland, Springer Science publisher. Tsagkani states:
Business process interoperability is characterised as the ability of business activities of one party to interact with those of another party, whether or not these business activities belong to different units of the same business or to different businesses.

[1] Christina Tsagkani (2005) "Inter-Organisational Collaboration on the Process Layer". Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM SIGAPP INTEROP-ESA conference, February 23–25, Geneva, Switzerland, Springer Science publisher. Tsagkani states:
Business process interoperability is characterised as the ability of business activities of one party to interact with those of another party, whether or not these business activities belong to different units of the same business or to different businesses.

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