Patterns for E-Business A Strategy for Reuse
[Paperback & CD-ROM]

Description:

Get an inside look at how successful businesses build their e-business architectures. In this book, four IBM e-business experts capture years of experience into easy-to-follow guidelines. Deliberately focusing on Business patterns, Integration patterns, and Application patterns, the authors share with you proven architectural patterns that can help get you up and running quickly, while at the same time reducing your risks. Because today's economy demands that e-business initiatives emphasize profitability and return on investment, the authors also offer guidance on methods to minimize cost, yet ensure quality. Many e-business applications and initiatives fail because of the lack of a comprehensive look at e-business architectures. For example. the recent crashes of many e-business applications costing millions of dollars could have been avoided if all aspects of operational issues had been addressed properly. This book offers a blueprint for avoiding such mistakes and for achieving success in the new digital economy. It also includes case studies, examples, references, and pointers to other materials at the IBM Web site. This book presents a comprehensive framework for defining e-business architectures; provides CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs in charge of constructing expensive e-business systems an entry point for acquiring an understanding of the engineering possibilities and risks, thus enabling better decision making; extends the well-accepted concept of reuse through design patterns to a higher level of reuse; provides proven Business patterns, Integration patterns, and Application patterns that cover most e-business requirements; demonstrates how these Business patterns, Integrationpatterns, and Application patterns can be combined and customized to suit your specific requirements; demonstrates how to guide the development of flexible e-business architectures as well as implementation plans that maximize the reuse of existing patterns and related assets; provides two concrete case studies; and more.