Prooner

Prooner is a hypothetical open standard and reference platform intended to facilitate end-to-end automation and optimization across diverse IT and industrial domains. It defines a common data model, communication protocols, and extension mechanisms to enable interoperable workflows between enterprise applications, industrial control systems, cloud services, and IoT devices.

The core of Prooner is a modular engine that coordinates tasks, enforces policies, and maintains provenance. It exposes a set of APIs and a pluggable adapter system that connects to ERP, MES, CRM, PLCs, and event streams. Security and governance are central, with built-in authentication, authorization, auditing, and tamper-evident logging.

Key features include workflow orchestration with event-driven triggers, data integration and transformation, real-time monitoring and observability, fault-tolerant execution with rollback, and versioned deployment of workflows and plugins.

Development and stewardship: Prooner originated in research and industry collaboration aimed at simplifying heterogeneous integration. It is maintained as an open framework with reference implementations available under permissive licenses. Adoption remains experimental in most organizations, with pilot projects in manufacturing, logistics, and software integration.

As an evolving concept, Prooner continues to influence approaches to interoperability in automation and software orchestration.