There is a serious backwardness in awareness, acceptance and wide use of the Enterprise Modelling (EM) technology in industry because enterprises cannot capitalise from previous modelling efforts. This situation hinders true enterprise integration, interoperability, and enterprise knowledge sharing. A Unified Enterprise Modelling Language, based on meta-modelling of existing EM Languages, would serve as an Interlingua between EM tools providing the business community with a common visual, template based language to be used on top of most commercial enterprise modelling and workflow software tools.
Nowadays, the need for systems interoperability in or across enterprises has become more and more ubiquitous. Many research works have been carried out in the fields of information exchange, transformation, discovery and reuse. One of the main challenges in these researches is to overcome the semantic heterogeneity between enterprise applications along the life cycle of a product. As a possible solution to assist the semantic interoperability, the semantic annotation has gained many attentions and widely used in different domains. We collect a number of literature that applied semantic annotations on different objects, and classify them according to the subject being described in an enterprise architecture framework. In this paper, a detailed survey, especially from the formalization perspective, is presented to identify the existing drawbacks and to point out the possible research directions.
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