Constructing Blueprints for Enterprise It Architectures

By Bernard H. Boar

"This book is the answer to hundreds of CIOs who have asked me how IT can be used to disrupt their market and change the rules of competition. If you live in a hypercompetitive world, CIOs will find this book an invaluable resource." -Richard A. D'Aveni, author of Hypercompetition "I wish Bernie Boar had written this book 20 years ago. And I wish every IT manager and architect had read it and placed his hand on it and sworn by it 20 years ago. Then we wouldn't be in the pickle we find ourselves in today!" -John A. Zachman Constructing Blueprints for Enterprise IT Architectures Recently deployed within a unit at AT&T, Enterprise IT Architecture Blueprinting (EAB) lets you blueprint your system designs with a degree of precision long taken for granted by engineers and architects. In fact, it's the first standardized methodology of its kind. In this book, expert Bernard Boar introduces you to the principles behind EAB and all of its features by walking through the entire design process for developing conceptual, functional, logical, and physical blueprints complete with useful icons, diagrams, and page templates. This valuable guide also defines: * Why blueprinting is an imperative strategy to cope with hypercompetitive business environments in the information age * An accessible vocabulary, rational rules, and clear-cut graphics standards * How to create a set of functional specifications and how they interrelate with diagrams * How to integrate multiple drawings * How to package the finished blueprint * How to design infrastructure and application architectures for extreme maneuverability and maximum flexibility * How to implement blueprinting within your environment and overcome potential obstacles The companion Web site located at www.wiley.com/compbooks/boar gives you: * Sample checklists and blueprint templates that you can customize and reuse

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471296201
• ISBN13: 9780471296201
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Considerable insight into developing IT architectures

Whilst I understand the comments from Mike Tarrani & the sheer frustration that I have found from irregularities within the book. This method is very much in the right direction. Clearly Bernie has developed a method that, when implemented within an organisation, can provide consistency in a field that has always been inconsistent. This work needs to be further defined, agreed, but I don't see a better method, and to that end we have recently invested considerable effort to define a CASE tool to support the use of EAB in our company.

How to illustrate complex relationships

Boar has mastered how to illustrate complex relationships, and provides specific examples and templates that can be used. Will be helpful for any information systems architect or planner.