On‐Demand Business: Network Challenges in a Global Pervasive Ecosystem
Craig Fellenstein, Joshy Joseph, Dongwook Lim, J. Candice D'orsay · 2005
An on demand business is an enterprise whose business processes - integrated end-to-end across the company and its key partners, suppliers and customer - can respond with speed to any customer demand, market opportunity, or external threat. This chapter presents the on demand business network challenges in a global pervasive ecosystem. This discussion focuses on issues ranging from advanced forms of on demand business services architectures, on demand business operating environments, networking protocols in a pervasive computing ecosystem, business process modeling, service oriented computing, and security matters. This chapter presents the significance of multimodal devices integration in an on demand ecosystem, services enabled network integration of manager of managers interactions. This chapter also describes how to achieve a services access domain with integrated services across services providers and consumers through process workflows, service delivery models such as Software as a service, service domains with shareable utilities and complex business functions, loose coupling and mediated service protocol integration through enterprise service bus, and embedded software for the mobile platform. The chapter concludes with issues around network layering, intelligent networks, security considerations in a wired and wireless world, and a global network of pervasive ecosystem with sensors and mesh networks.