Building Entreprise Information Architecture Reengineering: Reengineering Information Systems (Hewlett-Packard Professional Books) - Softcover

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.* Provides the easy to use Zachman Framework to develop the business views of an architecture. * Discusses Platos 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. 1. Historical Perspective. 2. Gaining Support for an Enterprise Information Architecture. 3. The Business Aproach to Enterprise Information Architecture Design. 4. The Ballpark View of Process. 5. The Ballpark View of Data. 6. The Business Owners View. 7. Enterprise to Data Models. 8. Warehousing Versus Operational Systems. 9. Making It Happen. 10. Architecture Dependancies. 11. Architecture Investments. 12. What the Future May Hold. 1996, 256 pp., paper (0-13-440256-1) (44025-5) BC0130

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.