Chapter 9. The Business Imperative: Moving Quickly into the Digital Age

In this book we have examined a number of the key underlying approaches, technologies, and standards that will fuel the current generation of enterprise solutions for the Internet age. These are centered on components and component-based design approaches. In this final part of the book we expand on these ideas and consider the elements likely to have a major impact on enterprise-scale solutions over the next few years. To do this, we consider the business drivers that form the basis of funding decisions, and the technological advances that will be fundamental to future solutions.

This part of the book is organized around two basic themes: