Explicit rela-tions between the two subjects could very much enhance the industry involvement on standardisation. An Enterprise Integration Capability Model has been proposed, to capture the integration potentials of an enterprise classified in levels of integration. One problem of integration is the insufficient information transfer between IT applications in hetero-geneous systems. Managing distributed control in the enterprise is one prerequisite to achieve a higher level of application integration. However, there is a distinct difference be-tween distributed systems and distributed enterprise control.
Enterprises contain humans and artefacts, rather than artefacts only.
The role of humans in distributed control will mainly define the behaviour of distributed enterprises. Knowledge and common understanding of material and information flow is well developed and modelling language constructs have been defined in the ENV 12204 pre standard. A language which would translate the mean-ing into an unambiguous representation through the use of ontologies and micro theories. Associated libraries would enable the use of special dialects for different users of enterprise models. The term 'teaming' has been selected for the process of establishing these relations between players in enterprise processes.