The SEEM vision is towards an Internet-based structured marketplace where companies can collaborate without geographical and technological restraints, thus overcoming the limits of the hundreds of vertical portals each adopting its own specific model. It implies, among other aspects:

• Creating a self-organising network of eRegistries/Repositories (RRs) where companies can classify their own profiles, offers and features so as to gain public visibility to potential customers and partners.
  
• Providing advanced, semantically-based search & find services to discover candidate partners by selecting them from the RRs on the basis of their profiles, qualification and offer.
  
• Establishing the conditions for confident and secure dynamic relations, negotiations and information exchanges with other companies based on agreed collaboration protocols and reciprocal trust.
  
• Offering compliant web applications to manage general-purpose and sector-specific distributed processes, and hide the SEEM infrastructure complexity under easy and tailored user interfaces.
  
• Ensuring the interoperability of legacy systems by facilitated information exchanges, to integrate internal enterprise processes with external collaborations.

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