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Discussion of diverse enterprise concepts around the present Society of the information (supposedly, of the New economy). The introduction of the information technologies (ICT) has modified the structure of the companies and the ways they make businesses. The article analyzes two subjects: a) If these modifications have generated a "new economy" or only a temp growth of the productivity that, nevertheless, stays in the tracks of the classic economy. b) If the definitions of company-network, company-in-the-network, and alike, are applied correctly, or it is necessary to consider a new structure of companies like a new ontological category. Two examples of this new definition with Amazon and VISA are given. The concepts discussed have an immediate repercussion in the corresponding information systems of the new enterprenurial structures.

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Interoperability in logistics is a prerequisite for realizing data pipelines and the Physical Internet. Forecasting data, real time data, and actual positions of shipments, containers, and transport means shared via events have to be harmonized and are expected to improve all types of processes, support synchromodal planning, and improve risk analysis from a compliance and resilience perspective. Technically, several solutions are implemented by organizations and innovations have been validated in so-called Living Labs or demonstrators in various projects. These solutions do not yet provide open systems required for a (global) data pipeline. A federation of solutions is required to construct data pipelines and to support sustainable development of applications on smart devices allowing Small and Medium sized Enterprises to collaborate. This paper proposes a set of platform services and so-called platform protocols to allow interoperability of different platforms for constructing a data pipeline. The proposed services and protocols further extend existing interoperability solutions and services for supply and logistics. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2015. Document type: Part of book or chapter of book