256 Enterprise Business Portals II with IBM Tivoli Access Manager
6.1 Business requirements
Today, ITSO Mart as a retailer has the responsibility of presenting its business
via the Web to the wholesalers. This requires a continued work effort on
maintaining the various Web sites. The CEO wants to reduce their expenses for
maintaining their business with the wholesalers by offering them the ability to use
Web Services provided by the company. As outlined in 5.2, “Current architecture”
on page 174, ITSO Mart works with a sophisticated stock keeping Web-based
application named Sales Tool, helping them to better track and calculate sales
and operations planning. ITSO Mart wants to make this application available to
their major wholesalers who can ...