Building Enterprise Information Architectures: Reengineering Information Systems (HP Professional Series)
by Melissa Cook
from Prentice Hall PTR
The manager's guide to building a business-oriented information systems architecture. Written for IS and corporate management, CIOs, and consultants. Provides a practical, easy-to-use framework for developing and implementing an enterprise information architecture aligned with business requirements. Learn to eliminate redundancy, control costs, and deploy new technology in an orderly way.
Reengineering Cobol With Objects: Step by Step to Sustainable Legacy Systems (Object Technology)
by Robert Levey
from Mcgraw-Hill (Tx)
Using COBOL as the programming language, this book explains how to change legacy systems into modern flexible platforms for growth and development. The computer departments of large organizations spend most of their time maintaining older systems. Most of these systems are written in COBOL. This book provides a step by step approach for eliminating the maintenance backlog by using the techniques of object oriented design. The first sections show how older methods of writing COBOL programs lead to logic that clogs programs with complexity and chokes off further development. By using objects, the book describes a complete methodology for taking these older systems and rebuilding them. In the process, the programmer gradually removes the older logic and replaces it with object oriented code. The result is systems that are adaptable to new technologies in COBOL, even though it is not an object oriented language. Along with an explanation of objects, the book presents a complete methodology for changing older systems with the new techniques.
Groupware, Workflow and Intranets : Reengineering the Enterprise with Collaborative Software
by Dave Chaffey
from Digital Press
This comprehensive guide for system developers, IT managers and consultants focuses on how intranets, groupware and work flow technologies can be used to improve the efficiency of their organizations. The focus is on how to use these tools to support organization transformation through business process reengineering, continuous improvement or TQM programs. It gives practical guidelines for evaluating where these tools can be best used, selecting the right tool and managing the stages of process analysis, design and implementation. These stages are illustrated by a case study of typical company applications.
This book goes beyond a description of the available groupware and workflow systems to explain how the development and deployment of these systems can be managed to make sure the potential is delivered.
Background: Groupware started as simple messaging applications such as email and conferencing and has evolved into more complex task and document management. Groupware and workflow tools are becomng widely available for use on intranets.
Gives integrated coverage of workflow, groupware, intranets and how they can be applied to solve business problems
Practical guide on how to build and implement collaborative systems
Describes how intranets can be used to implement workflow and groupware
Business Process Change : Reengineering Concepts, Methods and Technologies
by Varun Grover
from IGI Global
Object Oriented Reengineering Patterns (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming)
by Serge Demeyer
from Morgan Kaufmann
The documentation is missing or obsolete, and the original developers have departed. Your team has limited understanding of the system, and unit tests are missing for many, if not all, of the components. When you fix a bug in one place, another bug pops up somewhere else in the system. Long rebuild times make any change difficult. All of these are signs of software that is close to the breaking point.
Many systems can be upgraded or simply thrown away if they no longer serve their purpose. Legacy software, however, is crucial for operations and needs to be continually available and upgraded. How can you reduce the complexity of a legacy system sufficiently so that it can continue to be used and adapted at acceptable cost?
Based on the authors' industrial experiences, this book is a guide on how to reverse engineer legacy systems to understand their problems, and then reengineer those systems to meet new demands. Patterns are used to clarify and explain the process of understanding large code bases, hence transforming them to meet new requirements. The key insight is that the right design and organization of your system is not something that can be evident from the initial requirements alone, but rather as a consequence of understanding how these requirements evolve.
* Describes how to reverse engineer a monolithic system to understand how it really works and how to identify potential problems.
* Includes reengineering patterns that tackle well-known reengineering techniques often encountered in object-oriented programming, such as introducing polymorphism, factoring out common behavior, detecting duplicated code, and understanding design.
* Shows how to build a culture of continuous reengineering for achieving flexible and maintainable object-oriented systems.
Information Service Excellence Through Tqm: Building Partnerships for Business Process Reengineering and Continuous Improvement
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Information Systems Reengineering
by Joseph Fong
from Springer
Reengineering, in the context of this book, involves the redesign or transformation of existing Information Systems, while at the same time retaining as much of the original existing system as possible. This approach has obvious benefits when it involves systems that can be automated and/or supported by methods and tools. This book focuses on the practical approaches to Information Systems Reengineering. The two crucial technological areas covered include (1) the conversion of hierarchical or network database systems into relational database technology, or from relational to object-oriented databases, and (2) the integration of database systems and expert systems to produce management information systems (MIS) and executive information systems (EIS), where the concepts, the approach to be taken, and the benefits gained are summarized. The authors describe in detail database conversion techniques, reverse and forward engineering, and a reengineering methodology for information systems.
Reinventing Communication: A Guide fo Using Visual Language for Planning, Problem Solving, and Reengineering
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The Object Advantage: Business Process Reengineering With Object Technology (ACM Press)
by I. Jacobson
from Addison-Wesley Professional
Application Reengineering: Building Web-Based Applications and Dealing with Legacies
by Amjad Umar
from Prentice Hall PTR
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