Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Patterns for e-business and pattern approaches -- 1.1 Introduction to Patterns for e-business -- 1.2 The Patterns for e-business layered asset model...

Merely seventeen years old in the U.S. market, electronic commerce (e-commerce) sales continue to grow rapidly on an annual basis. At the macro level, U.S. e-commerce sales for 2010 totaled $166.5 billion. Although this total is impressive, it represents only 4.28 percent of the total of U.S....