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  title info:
    title: Building the agile enterprise
    sub title: with SOA, BPM and MBM
  name:
    name part: Cummins, Fred.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    place:
      place term: Amsterdam
    place:
      place term: Boston
    publisher: MK/OMG Press/Elsevier
    date issued: ©2009
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 306 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: In the last ten years IT has brought fundamental changes to the way the world works. Not only has it increased the speed of operations and communications, but it has also undermined basic assumptions of traditional business models and increased the number of variables. Today, the survival of major corporations is challenged by a world-wide marketplace, international operations, outsourcing, global communities, a changing workforce, security threats, business continuity, web visibility, and customer expectations. Enterprises must constantly adapt or they will be unable to compete. Fred Cummins, an EDS Fellow, presents IT as a key enabler of the agile enterprise. He demonstrates how the convergence of key technologies--including SOA, BPM and emerging enterprise and data models--can be harnessed to transform the enterprise. Cummins mines his 25 years experience to provide IT leaders, as well as enterprise architects and management consultants, with the critical information, skills, and insights they need to partner with management and redesign the enterprise for continuous change. No other book puts IT at the center of this transformation, nor integrates these technologies for this purpose. "Building the Agile Enterprise not only covers many corner stones of enterprise agility, it delivers an integrated view of how agility is enabled by policies and a business awareness supported by technology architecture/design patterns. Fred Cummins has hit the mark by aggregating the many tributaries of agility instead of picking one pattern and/or technology. This is a sophisticated and integrated atlas that is a challenge for IT professionals to implement, but a must for flourishing organizations." ~Jim Sinur, Vice President, Gartner "Never before has technology been so close to the business. In fact, technology is becoming more and more embedded in the business. This means that change has to go hand in hand on both at the business and the technology side, - or that technology ha…
  table of contents: Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Agile Enterprise -- Common business challenges -- The modern ecosystem -- A new way of thinking -- Agility enablers -- SOA Maturity Model -- CSFs on the journey to agility -- 2. Service Oriented Architecture -- Business services -- SOA infrastructure -- Defining services -- Enterprise transformation -- SOA Challenges -- 3. Business Processes in a SOA -- Process concepts -- Process modeling -- Operating modes -- Processes in SOA -- Choreography -- 4. Business Rules -- Types of Rules -- Implications of SOA -- Rules management -- 5. Enterprise Information Management -- Agile enterprise requirements -- Logical data model -- Data exchange -- Business intelligence services -- Master data management -- Knowledge management -- 6. SOA Security -- What makes SOA different? -- Encryption and signatures -- Identification and authentication -- Authorization -- Role-based access control (RBAC) -- XACML Policies -- Access control administration -- Federation of trust domains -- Accountability and non-repudiation -- Monitoring, logging, alerts and audits -- Vulnerability scanning and intrusion detection -- 7. The SOA Organization Structure -- How is SOA different? -- Service unit types -- Hierarchy design factors -- Organization specifications -- Organizational transformation -- 8. Event Driven Agility -- Event resolution business framework -- Origins of events -- Identification of events of interest -- Sources of Event notices -- Event notification infrastructure -- Event resolution processes -- 9. Governance -- Benefits -- SOA Governance Framework -- Strategic Planning -- Enterprise intelligence -- Business Architecture -- Audit and Risk Assessment -- Enterprise Transformation -- Standards and technology -- Information Technology services -- Finance & Accounting services -- Purchasing services -- Human resource management services -- Product Value Chains -- 10. Business Models -- Business modeling viewpoints -- Modeling tool standards -- Enhance…
  note: Fred A. Cummins.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-288) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Information resources management
  subject:
    topic: Management information systems
  subject:
    topic: Agile software development
  subject:
    topic: Information Management
  subject:
    topic: Management Information Systems
  subject:
    topic: Gestion de l'information
  subject:
    topic: Systèmes d'information de gestion
  subject:
    topic: Méthodes agiles (Développement de logiciels)
  subject:
    topic: COMPUTERS
    topic: Management Information Systems
  subject:
    topic: Agile software development
  subject:
    topic: Information resources management
  subject:
    topic: Management information systems
  classification: T58.64 .C84 2009eb
  classification: 658.4038011
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    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 090320
    record change date: 20260326161924.2
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng