At the center of this architecture is the e-business application,
which is responsible for three elements:
1.
The best-of-breed functionality required supporting a specific
business process, such as quoting, proposal generation, or planning
for a business activity;
2. Predefined access to resources (data, content, existing applications
and services) both inside and outside the enterprise firewall
that are associated with a specific business process;
3. Automatic aggregation of the most critical and/or frequently
used outside resources.
The
business context in turn defines the internal and external resources
accessed and aggregated by the portal application. Clearly, the
resources required for a procurement application are different
from those needed by a customer support solution. These external
resources fall into next classifications: Project Management,
Communication Services (eServices), Activity Management, Workflow
management, Information Services, eCommerce Services, Accounting
& Billing and future services like eContent and Data, or Existing
Enterprise Applications.
