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Building Enterprise Information Architectures: Reengineering Information Systems View Larger Image | Melissa A. Cook
Prentice Hall, Paperback, Published January 1996, 193 pages, ISBN 0134402561 | List Price: $39.99
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"I have read a lot of books and articles about enterprise engineering, reengineering
and the like, but this is the first time I have read anything that tells how to
do it so the resultant enterprise will actually work. "
"...a great book because it can easily be read by someone who has no knowledge
of information or systems or computers or technology. That is, it is a book
for Enterprise Management."
"...Melissa has taken an arcane subject, 'Enterprise Modeling,' and made
it so clear and intuitively obvious that it is embarrassing to realize how primitive
our approaches have been for so many years. If that isn't embarrassing enough,
she observes that the basic concepts have been around since Aristotle!"
From the foreword by John Zachman,, leading expert on IS architecture
Designing complex information systems is just like designing complex buildings.
To do it right, the homeowners or business managers need to provide a nontechnical
architectural drawing to guide and control the contractors, in our case, the
information systems developers. We can no longer afford to toss technology into
the morass of information systems in the enterprise without a business-controlled
framework.
In this breakthrough 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. You'll
learn how to:
* Classify, organize and communicate your business process and information
needs
* Integrate information across your enterprise to build competitive advantage
* Reduce information system complexity
* Improve data quality
* Isolate and replace complex legacy systems
Building Enterprise Information Architectures is, in short, a field guide for
taking control of information technology and making it serve your bidding-instead
of the other way around. This is one of the most important books you'll read
this year!
Table of Contents
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 Owner's 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.
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