Federated Database Systems in Supply Chain Management

The article shows the possible ways of use of federated database technologies in data management in the logistic chains of companies. The architectures and components of software for creating the federated systems and some suggestions for the architecture of data management information systems for companies are presented in the text. The mentioned solution stands a proposal to resolve the difficult problem of cooperation between the computer information systems in companies, which refers to making the data of company available to the external users and managing data in the logistic chain. The authors included an overall review of commercial software, which can be used to build the software of data managing in the chains of cooperating companies.