Enterprise Systems Integration (Best Practices In series)

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:

Symptoms of a terminally ill systems integration project

Integrating package processes over multiple application platforms

Making the transition from legacy systems to strategic architectures

Integrating information systems methodologies into the horizontal organization

and much more

Enterprise Systems Integration brings together crucial information and insight for making the best possible decisions about today's most important information technologies.

Introduction
Section I Integration Drivers
Defining Systems Integration, Michael A. Mische
The IT Imperative in Business Transformations, Richard J. Murray and Dorothy E. Trefts
Aligning Strategies, Processes, and Information Technology: A Case Study, Rainer Feurer, Kazem Chaharbaghi, Michael Weber, and John Wargin
Section II Integrated Architectures
Architecture Frameworks for Client/Server and Netcentric Computing, Andersen Consulting
Information Services, Andersen Consulting
Communications Architectures, Andersen Consuling
An Information Architecture for the Global Manufacturing Enterprise, Robert L. Sloan and Hal H. Green
Server-Based Computing Architecture, Bosco Cheung
Section III Enabling Technologies
Using Middleware for Interoperable Systems, Raymond J. Posch
Evaluating Object Middleware: DCOM and CORBA, T.M. Rajkumar and Richard J. Lewis, Jr.
A Technical Primer for Getting Started with Java Beans, Charles Dow
Java Beans and Java Enterprise Server Platform, David Wadsworth
Distributed Objects and Object Wrapping, Hedy Alban
Integrating Package Processes over Multiple Application Platforms, Ido Gileadi
Section IV Development in an Integrated Environment
Developing New Applications in a Heterogeneous Environment, Raj Rajagopal
Component-Based Development, Nancy Stonelake
Programming Components: COM and CORBA, T.M. Rajkumar and David K. Holthaus
Managing Object Libraries, Polly Perryman Kuver
Java Application Development Including Database and Network Integration, Nathan J. Muller
Section V Integrated Databases
Distributed Database Design, Elizabeth N. Fong, Charles L. Sheppard, and Kathryn A. Harvill
Component Design for Relational Databases, Ashvin Iyengar
Using CORBA to Integrate Database Systems, Bhavani Thuraisingham and Daniel L. Spar
Middleware, Universal Data Servers and Object-Oriented Data Servers, James A. Larson and Carol L. Larson
Designing an Integrated Data Server, James A. Larson and Carol L. Larson
Migrating Data to an Integrated Database, James A. Larson and Carol L. Larson
Mobile Database Interoperability: Architecture and Functionality, Antonio Si
Integrating EDMS and DBMS, Charles Banyay
Interfacing Legacy Applications with RDBMS and Middleware, Dan Fobes
Section VI Data Warehousing
Developing a Corporate Data Warehousing Strategy, Manjit Sidhu
A Framework for Developing an Enterprise Data Warehousing Solution, Ali H. Murtaza
Web-Enabled Data Warehouses, Mary Ayala-Bush, John Jordan, and Walter Kuketz
Distributed Integration: An Alternative to Data Warehousing, Dan Adler
Section VII Enterprise Resource Packages
Choosing Your ERP Implementation Strategy, Marie Karakanian
Critical Issues Affecting an ERP Implementation, Prasad Bingi, Maneesh K. Sharma, and Jayanth K. Godla
Risk Management Skills Needed in a Packaged Environment, Janet Butler
Managing SAP Knowledge Transfer, Guy Couillard, Ralph Booth, and Andre Boudreau
Maximizing ROI by Leveraging the Second Wave of ERP, Judy Dinn
ERP Packages: What's Next? Conghua Li
Section VIII Networking
The Essentials of Enterprise Networking, Keith G. Knightson
Planning, Designing, and Optimization of Enterprise Networks, Roshan L. Sharma
Enterprise Network Monitoring and Analysis, Colin Wynd
Integrating Voice and LAN Infrastructures and Applications, David Curley
Section IX Electronic Messaging
Introduction to Client/Server Messaging, Bill Kilcullen
Messaging Gateways, Peter M. Beck
Enterprise Directory Services, Martin Schleiff
Enterprise Message Migration, David Nelson
Preparing Organizations for Lotus Notes/Domino Solutions, Michael Simonyi
Integrating Electronic Messaging Systems and Infrasctructures, Dale Cohen
Section X Internet and World Wide Web
Integrating the Web and Enterprise Business Systems, Chang-Yang Lin
Business-to-Business Integration to Using E-Commerce, Ido Gileadi
Developing a Trusted Infrastructure for Electronic Commerce, David Litwack
Knowledge Management on the Internet: The Web/Business Intelligence Solution, Jason Weir
Section XI Project and Systems Management
A Model for Project Management, Michael A. Mische
The Systems Integration Life Cycle, Michael A. Mische
Symptoms of the Terminally Ill Systems Integration Project, Michael A. Mische
Contracting for Systems Integration, Jagdish R. Dalal
Choosing a Systems Integrator, Michael A. Mische
Index