Art of Enterprise Information Architecture, The: A Systems-Based Approach for Unlocking Business Insight

Product Description

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

From the Back Cover

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

About the Author

Mario Godinez, Executive IT Architect and IBM Senior Certified IT Architect (SCITA) within IBM’s Worldwide Information On Demand Architecture team,