COMBINE (COMponent-Based INteroperable Enterprise system development) is a Research Project, part funded by the European Commission (under the Fifth Framework programme) that aims to support model-driven development of enterprise systems - using Components.

The project began in December 2000 and was formally completed at the end of January 2003 with a final review coupled to a major demonstration of the project's successes.

The results of the various COMBINE Work Packages are now being consolidated into a single COMBINE Component Centre Web.

The project developed methods, infrastructures and tools as well as business solutions for modelling, designing, deploying, testing and running components successfully in an enterprise-wide scale. COMBINE provides:

1. Modelling of components for the enterprise,
2. Tools that aid the design and implementation of these components,
3. A development method that employs the concepts of a Component Centre (see “Business Component Factory” concepts, by Oliver Sims) to maximise development team productivity and minimise time to market;
4. Tools that aid the deployment and running of these components in the enterprise,
5. Infrastructure support that provides flexibility of service, information handling and presentation, and
6. An analysis of the techniques and methodologies necessary to successfully verify the implementation and conformance to standards of these components.

Open-IT Ltd. was one of seven Partners collaborating in this project. The others were:

Adaptive (UK)
INESC (Instituto de Engharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Portugal)
SINTEF (Norway)
Softeam (France)
The Open Group (Belgium)
WesternGeco A/S (Norway)

For further information please take a look at the COMBINE site.