Value-added services enabling semantic web technologies for SMEs

The SEWASIE project (http://www.sewasie.org) focuses on the question how to assist networks of small and medium enterprises in enhancing their intra- and inter-organizational information management capabilities. While the project also includes novel techniques for semantic enrichment, query management, and presentation techniques in multi-lingual information acquisition from the web, this paper addresses the question how to further exploit the acquired information to support every day business processes; firstly, by linking it into more established decision support environments based on OLAP technologies; secondly, by using it as a basis to engage in negotiations concerning inter-organizational cooperation.