N-tier Architecture——A Step Forward to a Flexible,Secure, Scalable and Highly Available E-commerce Infrastructure
Chen Li · Modern Electronic Technique · 2004
Competitive pressures have made it absolutely necessary to connect islands of information, resources and people together into a cohesive whole With the Internet invent, electronic commerce, commonly known as Ecommerce has continued to be a driving force behind future business growth worldwide Ecommerce is about doing business electronically based on the electronic processing and transmission of data Leading companies are accelerating their business cycles by establishing Ecommerce connections across their entire chain of customers and suppliers The global marketplace has therefore become a business battleground as companies reach into all corners of the world to attract new customers The rapid increase in the velocity of business change has put business managers under intense pressure to develop a secure, manageable and highly available architecture In this paper, an N tier (multitier) architecture is proposed as a better step forward in developing a flexible, secure, scalable and highly available Ecommerce infrastructure