3.6. Summary

Today's rapidly changing business environment requires innovative software solutions to help organizations be more competitive, achieve higher levels of service, and expand into new markets. Web-based technologies provide the platform on which these systems can be developed and delivered. The architectures of these systems will be N-tiered and require new approaches to design and deployment to take advantage of these infrastructures and their services.

However, many organizations are struggling to take advantage of these technologies. They are discovering that making effective use of web-based technologies requires appropriate methods and tools for describing new business practices, architecting solutions from a variety of existing ...

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