Publisher's Synopsis
Fast-moving advances in information technology can easily put you at a competitive disadvantage should you fail to keep up with them. It is a subtle and often costly art to integrate technology with business practices. And today, integrated systems form the backbone of virtually every successful, profitable, high-performance organization.
Featuring critical technology tips, strategies and assessments from some of the most highly respected consultants and developers in the field, Enterprise Systems Integration is a one-of-a-kind resource. The result of many thousands of hours of actual hands-on work in the field, it gives you a rich blend of researched knowledge and practical experience. It delivers proven, successful, economical solutions to real-world problems associated with the host of systems integration technologies and methodologies. It brings you coverage of those issues that plague you most:
· Enabling technologies, such as middleware, CORBA, COM, and Enterprise Java
· Integrated databases of all types-legacy, relational, and object
· Data warehousing, including Web-enabled data warehouses
· Enterprise resource packages
· Networking
· Electronic messaging
· The Internet and the Web, including e-commerce
Save your organization hundreds of hours in expensive trial-and-error by taking lessons from the experience of others as recounted in the thorough, no-nonsense chapters of Enterprise Systems Integration. The expert contributors give you detailed accounts of:
Enterprise Systems Integration brings together crucial information and insight for making the best possible decisions about today's most important information technologies.
