IBM e-business Technology, Solution, and Design Overview

IBM e-business Technology, Solution, and Design Overview

by Brian R. Smith, Charles Ackeifi, Thomas G. Bradford, Prabhakar Gopalan, Jennifer Maynard, Abdulamir Mryhij
Released August 2003
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 0738429368

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Book description

In a few short years, e-business has gone from a simple concept to an undeniable reality, and for good reason. It works for everyone: Consumers, businesses, and governments. The primary values of e-business, such as cost savings, revenue growth, and customer satisfaction, are proving to be only the tip of the iceberg. Having realized the benefit of Web-enabling individual business processes, many companies now seek further Return On Investment (ROI) by integrating new and existing e-business applications and technologies. The key to their success is to find a way to give customers what they want without the expense of traditional business operations.

This IBM Redbook explains the IBM approach to creating e-business solutions. This publication targets IT specialists and architects who want to learn about proven technologies, products, and solutions to build advanced e-business applications. This publication is also written for the technical professional who is planning to take IBM Certification Test 815, IBM e-business Solution Design. This is a revision of Test 811, Designing IBM e-business Solutions.

This publication, written by the same people who created Test 815, IBM e-business Solution Design, is a guide to the style and thinking that went into each and every test question. The information in this book is designed to help you prepare for IBM Test 815 and includes helpful tips for taking the test and sample questions.

Table of contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Preface
  3. What e-business is
    1. This publication as a guide to your understanding
    2. IBM Certified for e-business
  4. e-business concepts and technologies
    1. Patterns for e-business
    2. Technology options
  5. e-business infrastructure management
    1. Common Information Model (CIM)
    2. Infrastructure management
    3. Performance and availability management
    4. Performance management
    5. Availability management
    6. IBM Tivoli performance and availability solutions
    7. Configuration and operations management
    8. Storage Management
    9. Suggested further reading/references
  6. Security
    1. Security for e-business
    2. Cryptography principles
    3. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol
    4. Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol
    5. Techniques for securing the end-to-end model
    6. WebSphere Application Server security model
    7. Approaches for securing e-business solutions
  7. Design criteria and considerations for e-business solutions
    1. Understand current business policy
    2. Validate skills needed
    3. Design criteria
    4. Design considerations
  8. Designing e-business solutions
    1. The problem space
    2. e-business and objects
    3. Gather requirements
    4. Document and analyze current processes and infrastructure
    5. Create a functional level e-business solution design
    6. Validate the functional e-business solution design
    7. Identify and document the specific components of design
    8. Assist in proposing and justifying the solution
    9. Assist the project management team to ensure successful implementation
  9. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Referenced Web sites
    3. How to get IBM Redbooks
  10. Back cover
  11. Index

Product information

  • Title: IBM e-business Technology, Solution, and Design Overview
  • Author(s): Brian R. Smith, Charles Ackeifi, Thomas G. Bradford, Prabhakar Gopalan, Jennifer Maynard, Abdulamir Mryhij
  • Release date: August 2003
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 0738429368