E-Business 5 Flashcards

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What are the 5 critical elements of e-Business Integration?

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  1. Integrated business processes
  2. Information-exchange infrastructure
  3. Syntax & Semantics
  4. Reliability
  5. Security
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What are the 8 objectives of e-Business Integration?

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  1. Integration of both processes and data
  2. Integration is non-intrusive
  3. Integration exploits the concept of reuse of existing apps & systems
  4. Functions in real-time, at the back-end, with little end-user influence or effort
  5. Allows end-users who understand very little about the details of the applications to integrate the applications
  6. Exploits common agreements between trading organizations
  7. Supports a uniform process and data model
  8. Takes advantage of advanced security standards
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What are the two topologies for e-Business Integration?

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  1. Integration Broker

2. Business process Integration Layer

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What are the 4 characteristics of Integration Broker?

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  1. Implements the middle in a 3-tier architecture
  2. Provides development and run-time platform for application development for the web
  3. Resides the business logic
  4. Coordinate the sequence of complex integration steps
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What are the 3 criteria that enable integration and synchronization of business processes?

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  1. Integration with external workflows, components and applications
  2. Provision of transaction management capabilities
  3. Management of a standard exchange vocabulary
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What are the 3 BPI patterns?

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  1. Integrated enterprise
  2. Brokered enterprise
  3. Federated enterprise
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What are the 4 characteristics of Integrated Enterprise?

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  1. Ensures that end-to-end business processes are managed and monitored in a complete fashion across and within all business units
  2. Driven by management recognition
  3. Most suitable for small enterprises and larger where a common standard integration toolset is imposed
  4. Supported by EAI integration brokering and workflow infrastructure
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Name the advantage and disadvantage of Integrated Enterprise?

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Adv: Provides enterprise-wide process management
Dis: Requires implementing business process management across the entire organization

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What are the 4 characteristics of Brokered Enterprise?

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  1. Ensuring that process are managed and monitored across all business units by means of a broker business unit to provide both infrastructure and business process management
  2. Driven by management recognition
  3. Applicable to organizations where the individual organization units want to maintain their autonomy but benefit from the advantages of a hub-style service management and common messaging infrastructure
  4. Supported by EAI integration brokering and workflow infrastructure
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Name the advantage and disadvantage of Brokered Enterprise?

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Adv: The number of relationships that need to be managed and coordinated between business units is reduced
Dis: Fragmented image when looking externally to the enterprise

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What are the 5 characteristics of Federated Enterprise?

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  1. Keeping the business units autonomous with common message standards provided for cooperating business units
  2. Driven by expectation that business units are completely autonomous
  3. Applicable to organizations where the individual organization units want to maintain autonomous but benefit from the advantages of cooperating with other business units
  4. Supported by EAI integration brokering and workflow infrastructure
  5. Applicable standards include UDDI framework and XML
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Name the advantage and disadvantage of Federated Enterprise?

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Adv: Each business unit is autonomous and free to publicize its own processes and services
Dis: Little support and accountability for process management and enterprise-wide process improvement and implementation

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