Product Description
This comprehensive guide reveals the key elements of successful B2B integration and collaborative e-commerce, by highlighting business needs, technologies, and development strategies. It equips companies with practical guidelines for quickly implementing an effective B2Bi strategy, and prepares them for the next wave of B2B integration and collaborative e-commerce. It clarifies the intricate dependencies among all the components of B2Bi, including integration patterns, enterprise application integration (EAI), business process management (BPM), Internet security, XML, Web services, middleware technologies, and integration brokers. Included are future technologies that will have a significant impact on B2Bi architectures, such as intelligent software agents, wireless technologies, and peer-to-peer computing. This reference provides a suitable framework for the design, development, and implementation of B2B integration, along with several case studies.
About the Author
Gunjan Samtani is Divisional Vice President, Information Technology at UBS PaineWebber, one of the world's leading financial services firms. He has several years of experience in the management, design, architecture, and implementation of large-scale EAI and B2B integration projects. He is recognized internationally as an expert in Internet and e-business technologies. He has presented papers at several national and international conferences and is the author of more than 100 articles and research publications in fields of technology and finance. His email address is gunjan_samtani@yahoo.com.
