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.

Table of Contents:
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