It can make use of Web-based tools to enhance data exchange, and when used with proper security, open systems for greater efficiency. Interoperating Interoperable systems are able to link enterprises into Communities of Commerce. This allows multiple businesses to operate together in a single virtual enterprise. Related functions, although residing on many individual systems, appear as a single system for a common goal. The central system of the virtual enterprise becomes the linking point for all the interoperating systems.
Individual systems perform individual functions.
Data and processes can be exchanged among all parts of the overall system without going through the central ASP system.