Web 3.0 Approach to Corporate Information Systems Evolution

Abstract

The new "Web 3.0" technology has not well matured enough yet, but there are many efforts to implement it for the needs of Corporate Information Systems (CIS). The CIS generally serve to support corporate business and encompass modules dedicated to maintaining the core corporate activities, such as banking transactions (for banking CIS), the management of the production lines (for industrial CIS), supply-chain management (for Logistic CIS), etc. The CIS have evolved over the years and their components are based on non-Web technologies and Web 1.0 or Web 2.0 technologies. With the new era of Web 3.0 technology, the CIS have to be transformed (re-engineered) so as to work with Web 3.0 principles. This transformation can be made along a few lines: converting Web 3.0 to Web 1.0 or Web 2.0 technologies (with missing functionalities); separating the Web 3.0 elements from the other CIS and providing special integration features; converting the non-Web technologies, Web 1.0 or Web 2.0 technologies into Web 3.0 principles of operation and achieving an integrated CIS working with Web 3.0 principles. The purpose of the current paper is to present a new approach for the re-engineering of the existing (legacy) CIS, integrating Web 3.0 elements and working with the Web 3.0 principles.