e Business or Practical Steps for Aligning Information Technology with Business Strategies

e-Business: Organizational and Technical Foundations

Author: Michael P Papazoglou

e-business inextricably aligns technological advances with business models, business repurposing efforts and organizational structures in order to support end-to-end business processes that span the boundaries of the extended enterprise value chain.

• Using lots of real-world examples, this incisive guide helps people understand the theory and practice of e-business today

• Offers a thorough examination of the relationship of e-business to business strategy, from business models, supply chains and integrated value chains to governance structures

• Covers key topics that businesses need to consider with designing an e-business strategy, from XML and business processes to electronic intermediaries and markets, e-procurement and e-business networks

• Provides a complete overview of the technical foundations of e-business, with discussions of security, middleware, component-based development, legacy applications, enterprise application integration, web services and business protocols

Table of Contents:

1	The world of e-business	1
2	E-business strategy	21
3	Business models	53
4	E-business relationships	75
5	Governance structures	107
6	E-business technological infrastructure	125
7	XML the enabling technology for e-business	165
8	E-markets	197
9	E-procurement	227
10	E-business networks	252
11	Intermediaries in the value systems	285
12	E-business modeling	305
13	Security and reliability for e-business	349
14	Approaches of middleware	391
15	Component-based development	431
16	Leveraging legacy applications	465
17	Enterprise application integration	495
18	E-business integration	543
19	Loosely coupled e-business solutions	579
20	Business protocols	627

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Practical Steps for Aligning Information Technology with Business Strategies: How to Achieve a Competitive Advantage

Author: Bernard H Boar

Information Technology

Cutting-edge techniques for equipping your IT organization to meet the challenges of today's business world

Today's leaner, meaner, total quality business organizations look to information technology to provide them with a sustainable competitive advantage. That's why the IT managers who are in greatest demand are those who are well versed in modern strategic planning techniques and capable of developing a dynamic IT organization ever alert to their companies' current and future business needs. Written by an author at the cutting edge of today's IT business strategy revolution, this book offers you a clear, easy-to-implement action plan for reengineering your business's IT organization with an eye to building, sustaining, and expanding a competitive advantage. You will find:

• Charts and templates that an IT staff can customize and use today
• Techniques for overcoming most architecture problems, including a diagramming technique for drawing exceptionally clear blueprints
• An in-depth discussion of business IT alignment
• How to design an internal IT business economy
• Tips on how to get the biggest bang for the buck while optimizing customer service
• Proven techniques that radically improve application development through object-oriented technologies, data servers, and prototyping