Reflections on aspects of enterprise interoperability

Enterprise interoperability has been the subject of much work in recent years. This paper reports on a European research project VISP which investigated various aspects of enterprise interoperability between small ISPs doing business in a virtual cluster. It provides an overview of the work undertaken, discusses the points considered successful and what would be still required to ensure seamless and reliable interoperability between small ISPs undertaking business together in a cluster. A perspective relating the work in VISP to cloud computing concludes the paper.