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Building an e-business foundation for a small-to-medium business

Extend a simple Web presence to enable commerce, real-time collaboration, and partner exchange

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No business, big or small, can ignore the Web these days. The decision to become an e-business can result from any number of challenges, such as needing to adopt new technologies imposed by large customers who drive the company's business. In increasing numbers, small- and medium-sized companies find that they must meet the IT requirements of the bigger companies they supply, or lose business to competitors who have already made the transition.

IBM offers many products that can be used to craft highly available solutions. But because you are not necessarily going to purchase the products together, you cannot assume all the other pieces are going to be readily available. This means you must configure each product out-of-the-box to run independently. The challenge is to build a ready-to-go solution that will meet the performance and scale requirements of enterprise-class organizations.

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