6.5. Create a functional level e-business solution design

This is the lifeblood of the e-business solution design. At a high-level this work includes:

  • Describing how IBM strategies (for example, e-business on demand, Software Strategy for e-business) form the basis for the functional e-business solution design

  • Identifying the type of architecture (for example, two-tier, three-tier, n-tier, client-side versus server-side processing) that best meets the e-business requirements

  • Identifying the functional components of the e-business architecture (for example, types of clients - wireless or wired, types of servers, and back-end systems)

  • Identifying the critical design issues and devising potential trade-offs (for example, hardware and technology limitations) ...

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