E-Commerce Infrastructure Design
The recent wave of e-business failures has taught senior IT managers a lesson: The disconnect between technology and business inherent in brick-and-mortar businesses is not acceptable in e-business. Slowing the reaction time of technology with unclear directions and technologists uneducated in their company's business process can cripple and kill an emerging dot-com.
Senior IT managers need to investigate some form of BTM (business technology management), an emerging management discipline that seeks to bridge the gap between the strategic business side and the senior technology side. The process encompasses an e-business application audit and redesign process. The result will give the company not only a more efficient technology, but one geared toward specific competitive advantage to that enterprise.
Frontline network managers and IT workers must use the new information that BTM provides them to launch an end-to-end application redesign oriented toward intelligent sharing across all applications. Embodied by numerous application architecture processes (including those of Sun Microsystems and IBM), this concept can best be visualized as a 3-D application framework. Building it is a complex and initially time-consuming task involving the melding of business-process learning, management data analysis and product life-cycle requirements. The result will be a service-oriented application design that is able to shift and react to changing e-business needs as befits a frontline competitive weapon, which technology must represent in an e-business enterprise.
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