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Overview
Seize the power of information across your company to compete and win! For years, executives and IS managers have sought to integrate multi-vendor hardware and software across an enterprise to drive critical business strategies. Now, as competitive stakes increase and the advantages from conventional automation diminish, successful companies must harness the power of its information resources by transforming existing computer data into a vital business asset. This pathfinding book gives you a bold, yet practical, approach for achieving this long sought-after goal. Written from both a managerial and a technical perspective, it shows the current state of the art, explains how enterprise information technologies work and how they relate to each other, and demonstrates how any company can use existing computer data to tame tough information problems, enhance key business processes, improve management control and decision-making, and liberate the potential of your firm's greatest asset - your employees. Enterprise Information Technologies explores break-through solutions to meet today's tough competitive pressures - and puts them in a realistic framework that allows you to build upon an expanding information infrastructure that improves with use. You'll find powerful ideas and practical solutions covering real-world prototypes and designs for performing insightful and precise information transformation supported by a general information infrastructure; detailed checklists and a conceptual framework to help you better appreciate the opportunities and risks of "automating information"; the most attractive opportunities for exploiting existing data to enhance critical programs, re-engineer procedures, boost tactical responsiveness, and increase management effectiveness; a comprehensive systems integration model, based on large-scale client server architecture, for creating a coherent processing environment; the most promising vendor visions that address information's tBook Details
Published
June 1, 1993
Publisher
New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1993.
Pages
255
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780442009557