Size and location make little difference if your Web site is offline or your internal communication is interrupted. If your customers can’t communicate with you, you cannot communicate with your customers. In order to succeed, a company must manage its network – every node, every server, every connection - and the functions it is intended to perform must be clearly identified.
Once a corporation has committed to migrating their legacy SNA networks to IP, they are in a position to exploit the power, flexibility and benefits of their new network. They are able to leverage the growing value of their mainframes, as well as the data and business logic that resides within. As such, corporations large and small, are looking toward the Web and Web-to-host connectivity as a path toward e-business and e-commerce.