E-Business technological infrastructure

Question 1

what are drawbacks of the two-tier architecture

Answer 1

1. scalability problems
2. poor business logic sharing
3. client reliance on the database structure
4. limited interoperability
5. high-maintenance costs

Question 2

what are the different layers of the infrastructure for e-business

Answer 2

1. networking facilities (internet, tcp/ip)
2. basic infrastructure (client/server tiers)
3. web based technologies & applications (technologies that are required to develop web-based applications
4. collaborative technologies (EDI)

Question 3

What are limitations for the growth of EDI

Answer 3

1. fixed transaction costs
2. resilience to change
3. reliance on proprietary communication networks
4. encapsulation of business rules in transaction sets

Question 4

What are charactiristics of a workflow system

Answer 4

1. build time functions
2. runtime process control functions
3. runtime interactions

Question 5

what are the different types of workflow

Answer 5

1. production workflow
2. administrative workflow
3. ad-hoc workflow
4. collaborative workflow

Question 6

What are two key elemements in basic EDI

Answer 6

1. electronic documents replace the paper counterparts

2. the exchange of documents takes place in a standardized format