E-Business 5 Flashcards
What are the 5 critical elements of e-Business Integration?
- Integrated business processes
- Information-exchange infrastructure
- Syntax & Semantics
- Reliability
- Security
What are the 8 objectives of e-Business Integration?
- Integration of both processes and data
- Integration is non-intrusive
- Integration exploits the concept of reuse of existing apps & systems
- Functions in real-time, at the back-end, with little end-user influence or effort
- Allows end-users who understand very little about the details of the applications to integrate the applications
- Exploits common agreements between trading organizations
- Supports a uniform process and data model
- Takes advantage of advanced security standards
What are the two topologies for e-Business Integration?
- Integration Broker
2. Business process Integration Layer
What are the 4 characteristics of Integration Broker?
- Implements the middle in a 3-tier architecture
- Provides development and run-time platform for application development for the web
- Resides the business logic
- Coordinate the sequence of complex integration steps
What are the 3 criteria that enable integration and synchronization of business processes?
- Integration with external workflows, components and applications
- Provision of transaction management capabilities
- Management of a standard exchange vocabulary
What are the 3 BPI patterns?
- Integrated enterprise
- Brokered enterprise
- Federated enterprise
What are the 4 characteristics of Integrated Enterprise?
- Ensures that end-to-end business processes are managed and monitored in a complete fashion across and within all business units
- Driven by management recognition
- Most suitable for small enterprises and larger where a common standard integration toolset is imposed
- Supported by EAI integration brokering and workflow infrastructure
Name the advantage and disadvantage of Integrated Enterprise?
Adv: Provides enterprise-wide process management
Dis: Requires implementing business process management across the entire organization
What are the 4 characteristics of Brokered Enterprise?
- 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
- Driven by management recognition
- 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
- Supported by EAI integration brokering and workflow infrastructure
Name the advantage and disadvantage of Brokered Enterprise?
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
What are the 5 characteristics of Federated Enterprise?
- Keeping the business units autonomous with common message standards provided for cooperating business units
- Driven by expectation that business units are completely autonomous
- Applicable to organizations where the individual organization units want to maintain autonomous but benefit from the advantages of cooperating with other business units
- Supported by EAI integration brokering and workflow infrastructure
- Applicable standards include UDDI framework and XML
Name the advantage and disadvantage of Federated Enterprise?
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