Once the application is e-ready, now is the time to take advantage of all the newly available technology created specifically for e-business. Step 1 and Step 2 have modernized the legacy application and prepared it to now utilize new technology.  It is as if you had rewritten or replaced the application from scratch, however, without much of the cost and risk of doing so.

B2B and A2A web servers can now be set up to 'front-end' the application, using XML data interchange. Products from vendors such as webMethods, Bluestone Software, DataChannel and Information Architects provide all the hardware and software that is required, from customer electronic marketplaces to web portals, to deploy the application to the Web.