E-business integration Flashcards
what is meant with BPR
the critical analysis and radical redesign of business processes to achieve breakthrough improverments in performance measures.
What are the reasons that business process redesign projects fail?
- lack of management
- unrealistic scopes and expectations
- badly handled resistance to change
characteristics of e-business integration model
- the e-business integration model interlinks operational behavior, disparate systems and the underlying data into new business processes.
- e-business integration reaches beyond the enterprise to provide the automated support needed to fulfill e-business.
- e-business integration is an application-to-application concept, always functioning near real time
- e-business integration uses the notion of re-use in addition to distribution of business processes and data between several linked enterprises
- the e-business integration model assumes that scalability and fast response time are requirements and not just a goal
- e-business integration must employ advanced security standards for moving information between enterprises, to prevent leaks
- e-business integration used the notion of common agreements between trading organiszations
- e-business integration model provides agility to rapidly respond to competitive business demands.
- e-business integration assumes that source and target systems cannot be altered to support inter-enterprise application integration.
e-business integration takes into account the differences between integrating applications within and between enterprises.
What is XML
Extensible Markup Language
how can XML be used in e-business applications
- extending the EDI functionality
- interoperate with java technologies
- defining industry-wide standards
What is the difference between EAI and e-business integration?
EAI deals with the integration of applications, business processes and data sources within an organization. e-business integration is the integration of systems between organizations for information sharing with trading partners.
on what two levels does the semantic interoperability problem need to be solved
- the data level
2. the business process level
What are the three business integration patterns
- integrated enterprise business pattern
- Brokered enterprise business pattern
- federated enterprise business pattern
explain integrated enterprise business pattern
ensuring that end-to-end business processes are managed and monitored in a complete fashion across and within all business units
explain brokered enterprise business pattern
about ensuring that processes are managed and monitored by means of a broker business unit to provide both infrastructure and business process management.
explain federated enterprise business pattern
it is more typically supported by e-business infrastructure and e-business process management support facilities.
four issues when introducing e-business solutions to the enterprise level
- application connectivity what links various internal applications to share and leverage information and processes
- information integration that leverages information across and beyond the enterprise
- leveraging legacy systems
- support for advanced security infrastructure
what are the three infrastructure design criteria of succesfull enterprises
- flexibility
- scalability
- reliability/availability
what are the six differences between EAI and e-business
- e-business interactions are likely to run over internet
- e-business transfers are more likely to use XML than are intra-enterprise transfers
- e-business transactions involve additional security measures
- non-repudiation is only applicable to e-business transactions
- e-business interactions are driven by business protocols and standards
- business process mangement differs between intra-enterprise and e-business applications
