B2B e-commerce with WebSphere Commerce Business Edition V5.4 Patterns for e-business Series.

Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- 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.