Realizing E-business with Components

Realizing E-business with Components
Author: Paul Allen
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

We are all well aware of the growth e-business initiatives. What you may not realize is the growth in components use: According to Gartner Group "By 2003, at least 70 percent of the total number of new applications will be built primarily from building blocks" ("Component based development - the Next Wave, Research Note, Jan 1999). This book is designed to give practical help by showing how a company can evolve its e-business capability using a step by step component-based approach, providing innovation while leveraging investments in existing systems and software packages. Components provide an ideal underlying fabric for the new world of e-Business. They offer flexible services that can be reused across organizational and geographical boundaries, in different combinations which reflects the open, fluid nature of Internet business.

Realizing E-business with Application Service Providers

Realizing E-business with Application Service Providers
Author: Louis Columbus
Publisher: LWC Research
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780672320538

This book focuses on the market dynamics in business today that are driving the development of the ASP Model. It defines the core concepts and building blocks of e-business, leading the reader to a comprehensive understanding of the opportunities in this area. Market needs in all sizes and classes of business are driving the adoption of the ASP model by more businesses than was originally forecasted. Now, the largest software and technology companies of the world are actively pursuing the ASP model as a strong business approach. This book will define the key market drivers behind every aspect of the ASP model, including case studies to illustrate each major component. There will also be case studies of the companies that are market and industry leaders that describe their participation in this market. This book will also explore Microsoft's Office Online initiative, Oracle's Business Online stores, and the focus of AT & T's and SoftBank's role in this market. Dell Computer is actively looking into the ASP Model via investments in Interliant and Agillion. This book will delve into the collaborative tools aspect of the ASP model, which is crucial for the long-term success of this marketplace.

Developing E-business Systems & Architectures

Developing E-business Systems & Architectures
Author: Paul Harmon
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781558606654

E-business is much more than e-commerce. Companies can spend millions of pounds developing online retail outlets without altering their organization or procedures. This text introduces managers to the nature and scope of this change.

E-Business and Distributed Systems Handbook

E-Business and Distributed Systems Handbook
Author: Amjad Umar
Publisher: nge solutions, inc
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780972741422

This module of the handbook presents e-Business Models and Applications. Topics include e-Business evolution into Next Generation Real-time Enterprises, strategic issues, the role of eMarkets, ERPs, CRMs, ASPs, eProcurement, supply chains, portals, mobile applications, data warehouses and data mining to address strategic issues, and a planning methodology.

Realizing Teracomputing

Realizing Teracomputing
Author: Walter Zwieflhofer
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2003
Genre: Science
ISBN: 981238376X

Geosciences and in particular numerical weather prediction are demanding the highest levels of available computer power. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, with its experience in using supercomputers in this field, organizes every other year a workshop bringing together manufacturers, computer scientists, researchers and operational users to share their experiences and to learn about the latest developments. This book provides an excellent overview of the latest achievements in and plans for the use of new parallel techniques in meteorology, climatology and oceanography.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: ? Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

E-Business Applications

E-Business Applications
Author: Jorge Gasos
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642557929

E-Business has become a fact for almost all companies. But what are the key technologies for economically successful e-commerce? In this book readers will find all concepts that will coin tomorrow’s e-business: virtual sales assistants (shopbots), personalized web pages, electronic market places, vendor managed inventory, virtual organizations, supply chain management. Both technical and economic issues of these concepts are discussed in detail. Leading-edge real world applications are presented that will shape e-business mid-term. This book is a must-read for managers or technical consultants as well as researchers needing in-depth information for strategic business decisions.

UML Distilled

UML Distilled
Author: Martin Fowler
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2018-08-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 013486512X

More than 300,000 developers have benefited from past editions of UML Distilled . This third edition is the best resource for quick, no-nonsense insights into understanding and using UML 2.0 and prior versions of the UML. Some readers will want to quickly get up to speed with the UML 2.0 and learn the essentials of the UML. Others will use this book as a handy, quick reference to the most common parts of the UML. The author delivers on both of these promises in a short, concise, and focused presentation. This book describes all the major UML diagram types, what they're used for, and the basic notation involved in creating and deciphering them. These diagrams include class, sequence, object, package, deployment, use case, state machine, activity, communication, composite structure, component, interaction overview, and timing diagrams. The examples are clear and the explanations cut to the fundamental design logic. Includes a quick reference to the most useful parts of the UML notation and a useful summary of diagram types that were added to the UML 2.0. If you are like most developers, you don't have time to keep up with all the new innovations in software engineering. This new edition of Fowler's classic work gets you acquainted with some of the best thinking about efficient object-oriented software design using the UML--in a convenient format that will be essential to anyone who designs software professionally.

Testing Object-oriented Systems

Testing Object-oriented Systems
Author: Robert Binder
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Total Pages: 1256
Release: 2000
Genre: Computer software
ISBN: 9780201809381

More than ever, mission-critical and business-critical applications depend on object-oriented (OO) software. Testing techniques tailored to the unique challenges of OO technology are necessary to achieve high reliability and quality. "Testing Object-Oriented Systems: Models, Patterns, and Tools" is an authoritative guide to designing and automating test suites for OO applications. This comprehensive book explains why testing must be model-based and provides in-depth coverage of techniques to develop testable models from state machines, combinational logic, and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). It introduces the test design pattern and presents 37 patterns that explain how to design responsibility-based test suites, how to tailor integration and regression testing for OO code, how to test reusable components and frameworks, and how to develop highly effective test suites from use cases. Effective testing must be automated and must leverage object technology. The author describes how to design and code specification-based assertions to offset testability losses due to inheritance and polymorphism. Fifteen micro-patterns present oracle strategies--practical solutions for one of the hardest problems in test design. Seventeen design patterns explain how to automate your test suites with a coherent OO test harness framework. The author provides thorough coverage of testing issues such as: The bug hazards of OO programming and differences from testing procedural code How to design responsibility-based tests for classes, clusters, and subsystems using class invariants, interface data flow models, hierarchic state machines, class associations, and scenario analysis How to support reuse by effective testing of abstract classes, generic classes, components, and frameworks How to choose an integration strategy that supports iterative and incremental development How to achieve comprehensive system testing with testable use cases How to choose a regression test approach How to develop expected test results and evaluate the post-test state of an object How to automate testing with assertions, OO test drivers, stubs, and test frameworks Real-world experience, world-class best practices, and the latest research in object-oriented testing are included. Practical examples illustrate test design and test automation for Ada 95, C++, Eiffel, Java, Objective-C, and Smalltalk. The UML is used throughout, but the test design patterns apply to systems developed with any OO language or methodology. 0201809389B04062001

Achieving Business Value from Technology

Achieving Business Value from Technology
Author: Tony Murphy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2002-10-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0471273147

PRAISE FOR ACHIEVING BUSINESS VALUE FROM TECHNOLOGY "Clearly, IT investments have never before played such a critical part in business growth. The book addresses the weakness existing in most management systems involving the lack of a systematic process to realize the economic benefits of the IT investment and provides a clear A-Z methodology for business to bridge this gap. This book is clearly written for all levels and backgrounds in business management and is a must-do for those whose business involves IT, is considering IT, or would like to significantly tailor IT investments for their economic advantage." —Professor Richard P. Wool, University of Delaware, President and CEO, Cara Plastics Inc. "Tony Murphy addresses the difficult question of the value of IT investments head on. He translates an elegant theory into effective practice. The case studies in the book effectively reinforce his key messages." —Dr. Dermot Moynihan, Senior Vice President, World Wide Chemical Development, GlaxoSmithKline "This book is the answer to most CIOs' need for a well-structured, pragmatic, and easily implemented set of tools and practices designed to answer the universal problem of managing and measuring IT's contribution to the business. Tony Murphy's unique blend of practical experience, industry best practice, and excellent communication skills provides the reader with a valuable-and highly readable-guide on how best to achieve that elusive objective of reliably realizing the business benefits of IT investments." —Michael Rice, oup Director of IT, Kerry Group plc "At Oxfam we are one year into a three-year IT strategy based on the principles Tony Murphy lays out in this book, and there is a real, positive difference in how IT is perceived, and in its real strategic position within the organization. If you have ever wondered just how you can gain strategic alignment for your IT function, and then how to make the practical link to IT investment for the organization, Tony has provided a framework that joins them both." —Simon Jennings, Head of Information Systems, Oxfam GB

Component-based Development

Component-based Development
Author: Katharine Whitehead
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2002
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

This book aims to introduce the key principles of CBD that need to be understood in order to adopt a component-based model of software systems development, and to explain the benefits of adopting such an approach for an organization.