e-business Globalization Solution Design Guide

• Verfasst von: Stearns, Buck [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Zhu, Xiao [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Cui, Ming [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Shu, Bei [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Xu, Yi [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Li, Xia [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Li, Ming [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Qu, Fei [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: e-business Globalization Solution Design Guide
• Titelzusatz: Getting Started
• Institutionen: Safari, an O’Reilly Media Company.
• Verf.angabe: Stearns, Buck
• Verlagsort: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar]
• Verlag: IBM Redbooks
• Jahr: 2002
• Umfang: 1 online resource (204 pages)
• Fussnoten: Online resource; Title from title page (viewed December 16, 2002)
• ComputerInfo: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Electronic books ; local
• K10plus-PPN: 1694868818
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  Universitätsbibliothek
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Abstract

The Internet transcends national boundaries and geographical barriers. Many e-business entities have sought help from IBM in extending their e-business worldwide. IBM’s own marketing messages have stressed the global aspect of e-business, and our customers therefore expect IBM to be able to provide the solutions. Take a simple e-commerce application, for example. A company wants to set up a Web site to sell to customers from all over the world. Studies also have shown that users are much more likely to purchase from a Web site in their own language. With the worldwide growth of e-business, globalization is not only an add-on value but a must for global e-business applications. In fact, globalization has become an architecture in the realm of e-business. The key to globalization architecture is the Single Executable, which is the proper design and execution of systems, software, services, and procedures so that one instance of software, executing on a single server or end-user machine, can process multilingual data and present culturally correct information (for example, collation, date, and number formats). This IBM Redbooks publication presents a globalization architecture, a working example, and an accompanying set of methodologies. It explains from the customer’s point of view how to plan and then design a multilingual solution with the IBM-recommended globalization application architecture, how it works throughout the application development cycle, and how the working example validates the soundness of this architecture.