E-Enterprise Business Models, Architecture and Components

How does a company succeed in the volatile world of e-commerce? The real challenge is to fully leverage the potential of the Internet as a means to building an agile enterprise. In e-Enterprise Faisal Hoque provides a business vision and a technological method for building an agile, electronically-based enterprise using reusable components. Aimed at CIOs, CEOs, and technologists alike, e-Enterprise explores the strategic challenges faced by companies as they embrace business in the networked economy of the future. It takes a step beyond the simple transaction-based e-commerce model and shows how a business can truly take advantage of rapidly evolving technology.

He is the founder and CEO of enamics, an e-Enterprise modeling company. enamics, an affiliate of META Group, offers objective tools and operating models to its customers to define, visualize, simulate, and to architect an evolving e-Enterprise. In 1997, Mr. Hoque founded EC Cubed and pioneered e-Commerce Application Components. In 1995, as a GE Capital divisional product head, he implemented for that company one of industry's first comprehensive B-to-B Net commerce initiatives. Over the last 12 years, Mr. Hoque has worked with corporate giants like Dun and Bradstreet, Pitney Bowes, General Electric, MasterCard, American Express, Transamerica, Chase, and CompUSA. Mr. Hoque is also a META Group Research Fellow. More information is available @ hoque.com and enamics.com.