Enriching the Value Chain

• Strategic advice for mapping business drivers to a set of fundamental patterns and planning models.
• A way to organize e-Business infrastructure with your suppliers, trading partners, and customers.
• How to run e-Business infrastructure services for the long term with high quality.
• How to make applications become easier, more cost-effective, and quicker to integrate.

Author Bio:Bruce Robertson leads META Group's infrastructure development program, working with clients to plan their e-Business and enterprise systems from a pattern perspective. His areas of technical specialization include directory and security services, networking, middleware, and e-Business infrastructure. Previously, he was a senior technology editor at Network Computing Magazine, a director of consulting for a Los Angeles technology consulting firm, and manager of an online services marketing joint venture. Valentin Sribar is general manager of META Group's Infusion offerings, helping clients adapt their processes and organization to cope with any combination of dramatic business and technology changes. Previously, he was a senior consultant with the technology services practice of Ernst & Young, where he developed information technology architectures and networking designs.

How do forward-thinking IT professionals organize infrastructure and staff to meet the challenges of e-Business value chain initiatives head-on? Enriching the Value Chain gives you the answers:

• Strategic advice for mapping business drivers to a set of fundamental patterns and planning models.
• A way to organize e-Business infrastructure with your suppliers, trading partners, and customers.
• How to run e-Business infrastructure services for the long term with high quality.
• How to make applications become easier, more cost-effective, and quicker to integrate.

Author Bio:Bruce Robertson leads META Group's infrastructure development program, working with clients to plan their e-Business and enterprise systems from a pattern perspective. His areas of technical specialization include directory and security services, networking, middleware, and e-Business infrastructure. Previously, he was a senior technology editor at Network Computing Magazine, a director of consulting for a Los Angeles technology consulting firm, and manager of an online services marketing joint venture. Valentin Sribar is general manager of META Group's Infusion offerings, helping clients adapt their processes and organization to cope with any combination of dramatic business and technology changes. Previously, he was a senior consultant with the technology services practice of Ernst & Young, where he developed information technology architectures and networking designs.

Bruce Robertson leads META Group's infrastructure development structure transformation program, working with clients to plan their e-Business and enterprise infrastructure from a pattern perspective. The program's goal is complete repeatable end-to-end infrastructure designs or strategies. His areas of technical specialization include infrastructure impact assessment, directory and security, networking, middleware, and e-Business infrastructure. Before joining META Group in December 1995, he was senior technology editor at Network Computing Magazine, director of consulting for a Los Angeles technology consulting firm, and a manager of an online services marketing joint venture between BRS and WB Saunders. Mr. Robertson has a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University.

As a general manager of META Group's Infusion offerings, Valentin Sribar helps clients adapt their processes and organization when faced with a combination of dramatic business and technology change. Previously, he was the director of META Group's Global Networking Strategies service. Prior to joining META Group in December 1992, Mr. Sribar was senior consultant with the Technology Services Practice of Ernst & Young, where he developed information technology architectures and network designs. Mr. Sribar attended the Engineering School of Cornell University and received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering.