- ISBN13: 9780134402567
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Product 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…. More >>
Building Enterprise Information Architectures: Reengineering Information Systems
Tags: Architectures, Building, Enterprise, Information, reengineering, Systems
#1 by Anonymous on March 11, 2010 - 8:22 am
This book provides solid presentation of the Zachman Framework and how it enables enterprise architectural development. I think it could be more concise.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on March 11, 2010 - 10:52 am
The author’s writing style and ability to explain concepts is outstanding! I would love to see her author a more current edition of the book, including additions/modifications made to the Zachman model since this edition. Would also like to see more discussion/explanation about the technology views of the model. The book is excellent reading .. would recommend it for executives, managers, and technical folks alike.
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on March 11, 2010 - 12:50 pm
I’m a finance director at a privately owned manufacturing firm. By reading this book, I was able to work with our CIO in developing the most cost efficient enterprise system for our firm. Although it may be a little too general for the techies, the book is great for managers needing guidance on their system needs.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Anonymous on March 11, 2010 - 2:52 pm
Melissa’s book, although “ancient” in web-time (1996), is bang up to date, stressing the importance of good management-led architectural design. In the current (summer 2000) snowball of interest in everything surrounding XML, her book deserves to be read by anyone interested in serious XML deployment, as it covers the “upstream” issues notoriously overlooked or sidestepped in the rush to early technology deployment. She rightly laments the lack of central authorities taking a lead hand in IT design and project management but offers a way forward using the Zackman Framework and some clearly mapped out targets and milestones. Having been hooked by the strength of her arguments for “why?”, I felt a little shortchanged on the “how?” but sufficiently keyed up to look further afield, largely thanks to a very comprehensive bibliography.
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Hermann J. Stern on March 11, 2010 - 5:21 pm
I have a business background an work in business development for a large Swiss ISP. We have a lot of development going on inhouse and furhtermore, need to integrate standard software.
The book help me tremendously builing an understanding of what needs to be done to get order into our (creative) chaos. As a nice side effect I developed the glossary to communicate with the developers.
Rating: 5 / 5