B2B e-commerce with WebSphere Commerce Business Edition V5.4 / [Bill Moore ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moore, Bill.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

Patterns for e-business series.

IBM redbooks.

Patterns for e-business series

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic commerce--Computer programs.

Electronic commerce.

WebSphere.

Physical Description:

xvi, 358 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Research Triangle Park, NC : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Comments welcome

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 Our objectives

1.2 Our focus

1.3 How to use this guide

Chapter 2. Applying patterns

2.1 Architectural enablement tools

2.1.1 Patterns for e-business

2.1.2 Use of patterns with a simple example

2.2 Pattern application for a B2B commerce site

2.3 Process and methods used in our redbook chapters

2.3.1 Our starting point

2.3.2 Pattern usage

2.3.3 Example proposal

2.3.4 We get the job

2.4 The Sell-Side Hub composite pattern

2.4.1 Introduction to e-Marketplaces

2.4.2 Fit for our imaginary business problem

2.4.3 More general fit for business problems

Chapter 3. Requirements

3.1 About requirements

3.1.1 Definition of key terms

3.1.2 The importance of requirements

3.1.3 How to gather requirements

3.2 The requirements of our customer

3.2.1 Assumptions about the customer situation

3.2.2 Short business profile

3.2.3 Business goals

3.2.4 Existing environment

3.2.5 Functional requirements

3.2.6 Non-functional requirements

3.2.7 Standards and policies

3.2.8 Operational preparedness

Chapter 4. Understanding the business problem

4.1 Determining the Business patterns

4.1.1 Introduction

4.2 High-level business description

4.3 Solution overview diagram

4.4 Choosing the appropriate Business patterns

4.4.1 The Self-Service business pattern

4.4.2 The Collaboration business pattern

4.4.3 The Information Aggregation business pattern

4.4.4 The Extended Enterprise business pattern

4.5 Choosing the Integration patterns

4.5.1 The Access Integration pattern

4.5.2 The Application Integration pattern

4.5.3 Extending the solution overview diagram.

4.6 Finding the appropriate Composite pattern

4.6.1 Sell-Side Hub composite pattern: a definition

Chapter 5. Proposing a solution

5.1 Our starting point

5.2 Business pattern selection

5.3 Architectural artifacts

5.4 Constructing a logical view of the architecture

5.4.1 Select Application and Runtime patterns

5.4.2 Self-Service business pattern for product configuration, product search and selection and o...

5.4.3 Find a match for the registration Self-Service business pattern

5.4.4 Collaboration business pattern for customer assistance

5.4.5 Collaboration business pattern for notification

5.4.6 Information Aggregation pattern for catalog population

5.4.7 Information aggregation for technical documentation repository population

5.4.8 Access Integration pattern for single sign-on

5.4.9 Application Integration patterns

5.5 Constructing the proposal

5.5.1 Setting the scene

5.5.2 High-level summary

5.5.3 Overview

5.5.4 Solution

5.5.5 Risks

5.5.6 Dependencies

5.5.7 Requirements

5.5.8 Out of scope

5.5.9 Product suite

5.5.10 Proposed project phases

5.6 Functional view of the architecture

5.6.1 Component list

5.6.2 Component relationships

5.6.3 Component interactions

Chapter 6. Operational overview

6.1 Introduction

6.2 General description of the components

6.2.1 Outside world

6.2.2 Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

6.2.3 Application zone

6.2.4 Back-end zone

6.3 Choosing the components

6.3.1 Network considerations

6.3.2 Hardware considerations

6.3.3 Software considerations

6.4 Performing the product mapping

6.4.1 Outside world

6.4.2 Demilitarized Zone

6.4.3 Application zone

6.4.4 Back-end zone

6.5 Conclusion

Chapter 7. Detailed design

7.1 Scenario

7.1.1 Shop navigation flow

7.1.2 Use case model

7.1.3 Storyboard.

7.1.4 Component interaction

7.1.5 Styleguide

7.1.6 Screens

7.1.7 Next steps

7.2 Samples

7.2.1 Shop navigation flow

7.2.2 Use case model

7.2.3 Storyboard

7.2.4 Styleguide

7.2.5 Screens

7.3 Summary

Chapter 8. Implementation guidelines

8.1 Introduction

8.2 WebSphere Commerce Business Edition runtime

8.2.1 Two-tier configuration

8.2.2 Hardware and software prerequisites

8.2.3 Installing a two-tier enterprise runtime environment

8.2.4 Application development

8.2.5 Development planning

8.2.6 Development tools

8.2.7 Development environment

8.3 Testing guidelines

8.3.1 Test phase and categories

8.3.2 Test environments

Chapter 9. Procurement integration

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Procurement integration architecture

9.2.1 Procurement integration modes

9.2.2 Business Edition procurement integration components

9.2.3 Procurement integration ordering flows

9.2.4 Access control for procurement systems

9.3 Procurement integration configuration

9.3.1 Configuring procurement protocol and system information

9.4 Procurement integration customizations

9.4.1 Member subsystem customizations

9.4.2 Catalog subsystem customizations

9.5 Procurement integration example

9.5.1 Requirements

9.5.2 Solution overview

9.5.3 Customizing BASE for procurement integration

9.6 More information

Chapter 10. Customer care

10.1 Positioning statement

10.1.1 BASE requirements for collaboration

10.1.2 Example workflows using customer care

10.1.3 Communication process

10.1.4 Customer care customization

10.2 Implementation

10.2.1 Installation steps

10.2.2 Prerequisites

10.2.3 Enabling customer care

10.2.4 Registering users

10.2.5 TCP/IP ports used by Lotus Sametime

Chapter 11. User identity integration

11.1 Business drivers.

11.1.1 Common customer view

11.1.2 Common employee view

11.1.3 Common customer registration process

11.1.4 Common employee registration process

11.1.5 Step-up registration

11.1.6 Single sign-on

11.2 Existing environment

11.2.1 Existing technologies

11.3 High-level technical solution

Appendix A. E-commerce business models

Model 1 - Business-to-consumer

Model characteristics

Business responsibilities

Key requirements

Model 2 - Business-to-consumer service provider

Model 3 - Business-to-Business (B2B) / Sell-side

Model 4 - B2B Sell-side private trading exchange/direct selling

Model 5 - Sell-side Private Trading Exchange/Indirect selling

Sub-model 5A - Shared commerce

Sub-model 5B - Commerce syndication

Sub-model 5C - Commerce collaboration

Sub-model 5D - Commerce brokerage

Sub-model 5E - Commerce delegation

Sub-model 5F - Partners cooperation

Business Model 6 - Business-to-Business (B2B)/Buy-side

Business Model 7 - B2B Buy-side Private Trading Exchange

Key requirements.

Business Model 8 - B2B Buy-side Service Provider

Business Model 9 - B2B Market Place

Business Model 10 - B2B Exchange

Abbreviations and acronyms

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other resources

Referenced Web sites

How to get IBM Redbooks

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Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"February 2003."

"SG24-6194-00."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-347) and index.

OCLC:

939263513