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Architecture for the Intelligent Enterprise: Powerful New Ways to Maximize the Real-time Value of Information

Tomorrow’s winning “Intelligent Enterprises” will bring together far more diverse sources of data, analyze it in more powerful ways, and deliver immediate insight to decision-makers throughout the organization. Today, however, most companies fail to apply the information they already have, while struggling with the complexity and costs of their existing information environments.

In this book, a team of IBM’s leading information management experts guide you on a journey that will take you from where you are today toward becoming an “Intelligent Enterprise.”

Drawing on their extensive experience working with enterprise clients, the authors present a new, information-centric approach to architecture and powerful new models that will benefit any organization. Using these strategies and models, companies can systematically unlock the business value of information by delivering actionable, real-time information in context to enable better decision-making throughout the enterprise–from the “shop floor” to the “top floor.”

Coverage Includes

Highlighting the importance of Dynamic Warehousing
Defining your Enterprise Information Architecture from conceptual, logical, component, and operational views
Using information architecture principles to integrate and rationalize your IT investments, from Cloud Computing to Information Service Lifecycle Management
Applying enterprise Master Data Management (MDM) to bolster business functions, ranging from compliance and risk management to marketing and product management
Implementing more effective business intelligence and business performance optimization, governance, and security systems and processes
Understanding “Information as a Service” and “Info 2.0,” the information delivery side of Web 2.0

Customer Reviews & Comments
Leaving alone that the only so far existing review is pre-paid, the top star rating is an exaggeration. It the world of EA, where common vocabulary has just settled, this book acts as a "distractor" by introducing, what seems to be, an internal company's terminology, which, IMO, only hurts the profession, despite author's assurance that "The wide use of different lexicon needn't be a point of confusion or conflict". To substantiate the claim, please, take a look at the 1st item in the glossary: ABB (Architecture Building Block): Specifies the services required in an organization's specific system. , while a common definition is: reusable architecture assets. Author even comes with his own definition of EA in Ch 2. His journey starts with definition of EA developed by Kruchten and cemented in 1471. One thing the author does NOT mention, purposely or otherwise, is that 1471 is the standard describing architecture of a software-intensive system, also known as software architecture or system architecture, leaving alone the fact that 1471 has been replaced by 42010 almost 4 years ago. Also, take a look at references (closing every chapter): predominantly IBM sources. There are other points to argue, but this is hardly a place for heated discussions. PS.: Fighting an itch to rate it 2, but then will be labeled as miso-ibm. :)

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