Patterns for e-Business: A Strategy for Reuse

From the Publisher: 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. Audience: Business executives who must determine which e-business solutions to implement and are conscious of the key drivers (such as time to market and cost to implement) that govern implementing these solutions CIOs and CTOs who are responsible for implementing e-business solutions and choosing the architecture that will provide the underpinnings of these solutions Technical professionals (including ISVs, Web integrators, system integrators, and solution architects) who need to translate complex business requirements into applications that can be implemented using specific technologies Academics who wish to understand the implementation approaches that practitioners use to implement e-business solutions Level: Introductory, Intermediate, Advanced CD-ROM includes: IBM Redbooks on Patterns for e-business Audio/video "demonstration," with links to the Web, to illustrate the concepts of the Patterns for e-business and the Pattern Development Kit Two reports by analyst firms that provide independent assessments of the Patterns for e-business Audio/video interviews with both an IBM customer and an IBM business partner who have had notable successes with the Patterns for e-business Written reports of the experiences of two customers and a business partner Links to useful IBM Web sites about the Patterns for e-business