E-Business and IS Solutions: An Architectural Approach to Business Problems and Opportunities
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (983 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0201708477 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Sound principles, successful approach and common sense This slim, 288-page book addresses architecture as a set of principles and a seven-step approach. It's filled with common sense, and will provide you with the big picture and high-level steps that will place architecture into a coherent context.First, the principles and approach really are aligned to e-business although they can also be applied to any system or enterprise application. Second, the book may appear to be basic, but the author manages to get you think out of the box every step of the way. Principles & models cut through complexity Linda Zarate This book is a light, high-level view of architecture. It doesn't pretend to be a comprehensive "how-to" or highly technical tome. Instead, it breaks down the complexities of developing an architecture into a set of guiding principles and seven discrete steps. Products are not mentioned and technology is subordinated to broad discussions instead of specifics.It starts with an extremely brief, but informational, description of the characteristics of e-business and some of the challenges and opportunit
provide a high-level introduction to, and understanding of, the architectural approach to building IT solutions. Characteristics of E-Business. We look at some approaches to narrowing the focus of the IS solution so as to raise confidence in its political and logistical feasibility. With the arrival of the e-business era, and its forcing of the pace of business innovation, we now have less discretion than ever before to be ineffective or inefficient in our deployment of empowering information systems. The sum of an enterprise's activities amounts to "how the enterprise w
Buffam reviews the core principles and practices associated with applying e-Business technology for competitive advantage, walks through each key activity needed to define an effective e-Business architecture, and presents powerful solutions for unique challenges of designing IT infrastructure for e-Business applications. As all business becomes e-Business, managers and IT professionals must implement IT architectures that are effective, flexible, resilient enough to handle relentless change, growth, and acceleration -- or risk becoming uncompetitive virtually overnight. The book demonstrates the benefits of an architecture-based approach to e-business, and shows managers how to design effective e-Business architectures and infrastructure for their organiz
He has spent thirty years in software development, much of that time as a manager and software architect at Unisys and its predecessor company Burroughs, where he was a key architect for the Burroughs Network Architecture (BNA). William J. 0201708477AB04062001 . Buffam is currently Director of the Unisys Architectural Center of Excellence, an organization that promotes the effective application of technology as business solutions