Realizing e-business with components / Paul Allen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The internet age: An era of change -- The challenge of change -- Technology soup -- The adaptive enterprise -- e-Business in brief -- e-Commerce versus e-business -- The internet spectrum -- The challenges of e-business -- Components in brief -- Component anatomy -- Separation of concerns -- Toward object maturity: How components help -- Business components -- Component-based development -- A word on modeling -- Meeting the challenges of e-business -- Top-down: Process and architecture -- Bottom-up: Integration -- Business-IT alignment -- e-Business process improvement -- The concept of e-business process improvement -- e-Business process improvement planning -- Business process modeling (BPM) -- The business case for CBD -- Identifying business drivers -- Assessing architecture -- Assessing process -- Assessing organization -- Balancing strategy and delivery -- Component architecture -- An interface-based approach -- The separation of interface and implementation -- Interface-based design -- Integrating business processes and components -- The service-oriented view -- The criticality of architecture -- Structuring the business process model -- Value-added versus commodity components -- Architecture and e-business -- Dimensions of component architecture -- Level of abstraction -- Project versus enterprise architectures -- Architecture as integration model -- Forms of a component -- Specification versus implementation -- Architecture layering -- The main sequence -- Process guidelines -- The CBD process framework.

"This book provides practical advice for planning, analysis and design of e-business systems using component-based development (CBD). It includes architectures, processes, modeling techniques, economic models and organizational guidelines, all of which are well placed to ease migration of large organizations to e-business." "The core of the book is an extensive example that tracks the experiences of a typical company, with a traditional set of business processes and supporting software systems, through various stages along the road to e-business."--Jacket.