Taking into account the big picture of the newly networked
enterprise environment, and due the fact that so far there
are not research that connect these fields finding a gap in
the literature, a research question emerges: Is it possible
to link the fields of enterprise collaboration, collaborative
networks, enterprise architectures, strategic alignment and
sensing enterprise in order to create new tools that allow
modelling CN to boost interoperability among enterprises?
For the purposes to answer this question, the current document
accomplishes a deep review of these fields and their
relationship with one another, providing the hypothesis of
the research question that also helps to fill the gap founded,
since those fields can be used together in a new and big concept
of Inter-Enterprise Architecture (IEA). In addition to
this, the document goes beyond the state of the art proposing
a first framework for sensing enterprise architecture and
its meta-model as a novel tool for modelling CN in sensing
environments.