 
Pages: 170
ISBN: 1-56607-084-8
Published: April 2000
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About the report
CTR's new report, Reengineering Business for Success in the Internet Age: Business-to-Business E-commerce Strategies, discusses why enterprises have been reengineering their business models to accommodate the Internet. The report covers the various technologies, practices, methodologies, and standards that enable system designers to leverage Internet capabilities. Internet development and implementation issues are addressed as well.
The Emergence of the Internet
Unlike its early beginnings when information was available primarily to the administrative and technical elites, information technology (IT) now reaches a global audience via the Internet. The Internet is the great equalizer, providing the universal access mechanism to information sought by advocates of free enterprise. It is the enterprise that will exploit the limitless possibilities of the Internet to its fullest.
Why Should Organizations Reengineer?
Free market economies around the world are rushing to participate in the great explosion of e-commerce. Entire enterprises are reorganizing and reengineering to participate in this seismic shift in commercial practices. The Internet is not just about commerce, however; it alters daily lives around the globe. It is changing the cultural, governmental, economic, and social practices of entire societies.
Reengineering Business for Success in the Internet Age: Business-to-Business E-commerce Strategies explains the organizational and technological breakthroughs that enabled a universal Internet. A review of the Web's beginnings, its vital importance to the growth of the Internet, and its supporting technology is also included.
What Caused businesses to Shift to the Internet?
CTR's report examines the elements that drive the Internet phenomenon-from basic e-mail to directories to large messaging architectures-and addresses the multiple issues that accompany a transition to Internet enablement. These issues range from system design questions to technology decisions to staff training and related planning activities.
Reengineering Technology
CTR's report addresses technology issues associated with Internet application development. These include:
- Programming Languages
- Protocols
- Standards
- Network Infrastructure
- Web Site Design
- Software Tools
- Security
- Management Systems
- Legacy Integration
- Evolving Business Models
- Migration Planning
The most important question, however, is how an enterprise can most efficiently adopt the Internet model into its overall business cycle.
Conclusion
CTR's new report, Reengineering Business for Success in the Internet Age: Business-to-Business E-commerce Strategies, provides the information necessary for system designers and software and systems engineers to evaluate critical Internet implementation issues-and reengineer the enterprise.
The report also analyzes the explosive changes occurring in Internet techniques, practices, and procedures, including those from a software, hardware, and application environment perspective.
Report contents
Executive Summary
- Reengineering Retail
- Architectural Overview
- Internet Functionality
- Web Capabilities
- Security Parameters
- Making the Transition
- Reengineering Data
- Reengineering Components
- Transaction Processing (T/P) Models
- Reengineering for the Internet
Internet Progress
- Wide Area Networks (WANs) and Local Area Networks (LANs)
- Universal Protocols
- Limitations
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- Internet in Europe
- Commercial Explosion
Internet Architecture
- Functional Support
- Platform Choices
- The Java Impact
Internet Functions
- Directories
- Spam Control
- Messaging Architectures
The World Wide Web
- http://www.cls.com/hist.html
- Protocols
- Search Capabilities
Security Issues
- Protocols and Keys
- Electronic Signatures
- Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
- Firewalls
Migration Issues
- Architectures
- Pitfalls
- System Components
Standards
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Web Protocols
- XML Applications
Reengineering the System
- Reengineering Components
- Unified Modeling Language (UML)
- Reengineering Tools
Transaction Processor Systems
- Technology Issues
- Reliability Requirements
- Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) versus DCOM
- DCOM versus EJB
Reengineering for the Internet
- Exploiting Technology
- Web Enablement
- Training
- Technology Challenges
Future Trends
- Hardware
- Applications
- Computing Environment
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