Table Of ContentContents
Cover
e-Business: organizational and technical foundations
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Title Page
Copyright
About the Authors
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1: The World of e-Business
1.1 What is e-Business?
1.2 Characteristics of e-Business
1.3 Elements of an e-Business solution
1.4 e-Business roles and their challenges
1.5 e-Business requirements
1.6 Impacts of e-Business
1.7 Inhibitors of e-Business
1.8 Chapter summary
Chapter 2: e-Business Strategy
2.1 What is e-Business strategy?
2.2 Strategic positioning
2.3 Levels of e-Business strategy
2.4 The changing competitive agenda: business and
technology drivers
2.5 The strategic planning process
2.6 Strategic alignment
2.7 The consequences of e-Business: theoretical
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foundations
2.8 Success factors for implementation of e-Business
strategies
2.9 Chapter summary
Chapter 3: Business Models
3.1 Pressures forcing business changes
3.2 Business models – definitions
3.3 Classifications of business models
3.4 Towards networked business models
3.5 Chapter summary
Chapter 4: e-Business Relationships
4.1 Modeling interdependent business activities: the
value chain
4.2 Business processes and their management
4.3 Types and characteristics of e-Business relationships
4.4 Electronic links and the value chain
4.5 Chapter summary
Chapter 5: Governance Structures
5.1 Markets vs. hierarchies: theoretical contributions
5.2 Networks
5.3 A supply chain perspective: value-adding
partnerships
5.4 The effects of information technology on governance
5.5 Chapter summary
Chapter 6: e-Business Technological Infrastructure
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6.1 Technical e-Business challenges
6.2 Basic infrastructure: client/server technology
6.3 Web technologies and applications
6.4 Collaborative technologies
6.5 The role of enterprise information systems in e-
Business
6.6 Chapter summary
Chapter 7: XML the Enabling Technology for e-Business
7.1 Brief overview of XML
7.2 Characteristics of XML documents
7.3 Defining structure in XML documents
7.4 Document presentation and transformation
7.5 Processing XML documents
7.6 XML, EDI and e-Business
7.7 Chapter summary
Chapter 8: e-Markets
8.1 Electronic markets defined
8.2 The functions of electronic markets
8.3 How do electronic markets differ from traditional
markets?
8.4 What are the effects of electronic markets?
8.5 Electronic market success factors
8.6 e-Market technology solutions
8.7 Chapter summary
Chapter 9: e-Procurement
9.1 Introduction
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9.2 The purchasing process
9.3 Developments in purchasing
9.4 IT and purchasing
9.5 e-Procurement
9.6 Auctions
9.7 e-Procurement solutions
9.8 Chapter summary
Chapter 10: e-Business Networks
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Network organizations
10.3 Interorganizational information systems and
network organizations
10.4 Supply chains
10.5 Integrated supply chains
10.6 Concluding remarks
10.7 Chapter summary
Chapter 11: Intermediaries in the Value Systems
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Definition and classification of intermediaries
11.3 Dynamics in the value system
11.4 Chapter summary
Chapter 12: e-Business Modeling
12.1 Business modeling
12.2 Business processes and collaborations
12.3 Business modeling with UML
12.4 Business process modeling methodologies
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12.5 The Supply-Chain Operations Reference (SCOR)
model
12.6 Business process modeling notation
12.7 Comparing BPMN with UML
12.8 The Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
12.9 Chapter summary
Chapter 13: Security and Reliability for e-Business
13.1 Reliability and quality considerations
13.2 Quality requirements
13.3 Trust
13.4 e-Business risks
13.5 e-Business security
13.6 Realizing a secure e-Business infrastructure
13.7 Chapter summary
Chapter 14: Approaches to Middleware
14.1 What is middleware?
14.2 Messaging
14.3 Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs)
14.4 Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
14.5 Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM)
14.6 Data-access middleware
14.7 Transaction-oriented middleware
14.8 Distributed-object middleware
14.9 Newer generation frameworks
14.10 Chapter summary
Chapter 15: Component-based Development
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15.1 What are components?
15.2 Interfaces and contracts
15.3 Business components and entities
15.4 Component models and compositions
15.5 Component frameworks and patterns
15.6 Business
15.7 Business component-based design and development
15.8 Advantages and limitations of component-based
development
15.9 Chapter summary
Chapter 16: Leveraging Legacy Applications
16.1 Enterprise information systems and legacy
enterprise assets
16.2 Strategies for modernizing legacy systems
16.3 Non-invasive approaches
16.4 Invasive approaches
16.5 Legacy modernization techniques
16.6 Chapter summary
Chapter 17: Enterprise Application Integration
17.1 The application integration imperative
17.2 Operational and financial drivers
17.3 What is Enterprise Application Integration?
17.4 Typical topologies for enterprise application
integration
17.5 Types of application integration: passive vs. active
17.6 Layers of EAI integration
17.7 Workflow, EAI, and BPM technologies: A
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comparison
17.8 When to use synchronous or asynchronous
communication
17.9 Elements of the application integration architecture
17.10 Implementing business process-level EAI
17.11 Summary of application integration infrastructure
functions
17.12 Chapter summary
Chapter 18: e-Business Integration
18.1 Business processes and e-Business integration
18.2 Business process redesign
18.3 e-Processes
18.4 Overview of e-Business integration
18.5 Topologies for e-Business integration
18.6 Workflow, BPM, EAI and e-Business
18.7 Integration challenges: the semantic interoperability
problem
18.8 Business integration patterns and their implications
18.9 e-Business integration requirements revisited
18.10 Wrapping up: the real differences between e-
Business and EAI
18.11 Chapter summary
Chapter 19: Loosely Coupled e-Business Solutions
19.1 Introduction
19.2 The concept of software as a service
19.3 What Web services are
19.4 Web services: types and characteristics
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19.5 The service-oriented architecture
19.6 The web services technology stack
19.7 Web services standards
19.8 Web services orchestration
19.9 Web services transactions
19.10 Web services security and policy considerations
19.11 EAI and Web services
19.12 Chapter summary
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Chapter 20: Business Protocols
20.1 Introduction
20.2 Why are business standards and protocols needed?
20.3 XML technology stack for e-Business integration
20.4 RosettaNet
20.5 Electronic business XML
20.6 Convergence between Rosetta, ebXML and Web
services
20.7 Chapter summary
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