The book demonstrates how the World Wide Web can be utilized to build an enterprise-wide information system, allowing employees easy access to all relevant information resources. It precisely analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the World Wide Web in a business context. From this, a multi-layered architecture of corporate WWW information systems is derived, along with a procedural model for successfully executing WWW projects. The book answers many questions that IT departments face and serves as a guide for implementing specific WWW projects. Key topics include: the description of the architecture of corporate WWW applications, the integration of the WWW with databases and distributed systems, a procedural model for conducting WWW projects, and the presentation of methods for designing WWW systems.