Summary

To be successful, e-businesses must have a continuous optimization business strategy, solid knowledge management practices, and integrated business process domains. No matter what the business, the e-business model processes are the same.

The e-business market affords organizations of all sizes and types the opportunity to leverage their existing assets, employees, technology infrastructure, and information to gain or maintain marketshare. However, the challenge for the organization is to turn the vision and the market opportunity into a sustainable e-business.

Finally, the need for an integrated value chain challenges the e-business to optimize its intellectual assets and its investments in core business systems in order to deliver its products and services to an unpredictable market. It is this unpredictable nature that challenges the IT organization to deliver the highly scalable and available infrastructure. Additional challenges include the unique nature of an e-business and the tight linking of the business operations to a technical infrastructure. A disciplined and architected approach based on an e-business model provides the framework needed to build complex business processes and technical infrastructures that the market is increasingly demanding.