Abstract: Virtual restructuring methods according to the present invention provide a mechanism for a diversified company or a joint business enterprise encompassing a plurality of business units having a degree of autonomy over their business operations, and having their own business methods and legacy information systems, to nevertheless reach customers as a virtual intergraded entity, through a common portal and a single user interface.

Abstract: Virtual restructuring methods according to the present invention provide a mechanism for a diversified company or a joint business enterprise encompassing a plurality of business units having a degree of autonomy over their business operations, and having their own business methods and legacy information systems, to nevertheless reach customers as a virtual intergraded entity, through a common portal and a single user interface.

Abstract: Virtual restructuring methods according to the present invention provide a mechanism for a diversified company or a joint business enterprise encompassing a plurality of business units having a degree of autonomy over their business operations, and having their own business methods and legacy information systems, to nevertheless reach customers as a virtual intergraded entity, through a common portal and a single user interface.

Abstract: A system for virtual restructuring of a diversified company, or of a joint business enterprise, allows a plurality of disparate, autonomous business units within the diversified or joint entity that each may have its own business methods and information systems to nevertheless collectively reach, and market to, customers as if they were an integrated business entity. The system provides a common portal and single user interface that, in an illustrated embodiment, are supported by a presentation layer, a legacy applications layer that communicates with the information systems of the disparate business units, and an applications layer that intermediates between the presentation and legacy application layers.

Abstract: An on-line catalog system provides a customer with access, over a communications network, to the offerings of disparate business units of a diversified company or a joint business enterprise. Although the information systems of the business units will, in general, differ from one another, the provision of a common portal and a mechanism for allowing the common portal to access the content of the potentially disparate information systems of the business units enables an on-line catalog system through which a customer can access product or service data originating from the differing information systems of the plurality of business units in a unified fashion as though dealing with a single business entity.

Abstract: A system for virtual restructuring of a diversified company, or of a joint business enterprise, allows a plurality of disparate, autonomous business units within the diversified or joint entity that each may have its own business methods and information systems to nevertheless collectively reach, and market to, customers as if they were an integrated business entity. The system provides a common portal and single user interface that, in an illustrated embodiment, are supported by a presentation layer, a legacy applications layer that communicates with the information systems of the disparate business units, and an applications layer that intermediates between the presentation and legacy application layers.

Abstract: Virtual restructuring methods according to the present invention provide a mechanism for a diversified company or a joint business enterprise encompassing a plurality of business units having a degree of autonomy over their business operations, and having their own business methods and legacy information systems, to nevertheless reach customers as a virtual intergraded entity, through a common portal and a single user interface.