Overview

Building a complex and secure e-commerce application is a challenge. Fortunately Service Oriented Architecture enables online businesses to incorporate capabilities of external web-services owned by other entities into their own applications. On-demand / SaaS business-model is yet another step on this path – the Service Providers implementing ‘On-demand’ business-model are offering complete business-services that may be integrated into complex business-processes of servicing customers as building blocks with predictable and manageable capabilities. The important part of this arrangement is, that business-services are manageable for the company - consumer, it retains full control over the parameters of particular business-process implemented by Service Provider and corresponding data; any business using external On-demand service is simply outsourcing the technical task of building and maintaining a hardware and software infrastructure meeting particular business-needs to external Service Provider.

The company subscribing to our service operates a separate instance of business-services described below, which means that: consumer (company) has a separate sub-set of end-user accounts demominated in a separate ‘currency’ of consumer; every end-user has in his possession a unique cryptographic material, associated with the account; consumer (company) manages the trust relationship with his client/end-user itself through web-interfaces or web-service interfaces.