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Shows how to put business management back in charge of processes and information, explaining simple principles that can be used to integrate the enterprise with more flexible, less complex information systems. Covers communicating business process and information needs, improving data quality, and replacing complex legacy systems, and offers ballpark and business owners' views of process, data, and technology architectures. For executives, managers, and technical professionals. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.


Book Description
The manager's guide to building a business-oriented information systems architecture. Written for IS and corporate management, CIOs, and consultants. Provides a practical, easy-to-use framework for developing and implementing an enterprise information architecture aligned with business requirements. Learn to eliminate redundancy, control costs, and deploy new technology in an orderly way.


The publisher, Prentice-Hall ECS Professional
Less technical and detailed than other like texts, this book sets out to put Business Executives and Managers back in control of their Information Systems Architecture. The approach utilized in this book takes the mystery out of technology, and is based on information processing concepts and breakthroughs that have been largely ignored or buried in technical jargon. This worldwide approach is not limited to any language or cultural constraints.


From the Back Cover
The manager's guide to building a business-oriented information systems architecture. Written for IS and corporate management, CIOs, and consultants. Provides a practical, easy-to-use framework for developing and implementing an enterprise information architecture aligned with business requirements. Learn to eliminate redundancy, control costs, and deploy new technology in an orderly way.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In this book, noted expert Melissa A. Cook shows you how to put business management back in charge of processes and information, using easy-to-understand principles that have worked since antiquity. Whether you are an executive manager or a technical professional, you can use these principles to integrate the enterprise with information systems that are more flexible, less complex, less expensive, and fully supportive of your business process reengineering efforts. Building Enterprise Information Architecture is, in short, field guide for taking control of information technology and making it serve your bidding - instead of the other way round.

SYNOPSIS

Provides the easy to use Zachman Framework to develop the business views of an architecture.

Discusses Plato's Classification Theory as used for information processing.

Data to Process Affinity helps segment the architecture into components.

Describes how DBMS, Data Dictionaries and Distributed Computing were intended to be used to control the architecture in companies.

Shows that Data Modelling based on classification theory needs to be used by business people to understand their information needs.

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