Cost-Effective Strategies for Client/Server Systems

By Bernard H. Boar

This book is for the IT manager who is migrating to client/server or who would like to, but must first win the support of corporate management. Author Bernard H. Boar debunks the latest anti-client/server myths being propagated by the small number of gurus, pundits, and pedants he dubs the "Mainframe Preservation Society." Boar analyzes a broad range of IT reengineering issues--core competencies, internal economy, processes, human resource architecture, vendor relationships, IT architecture, and organizational structures. He clearly outlines client/server's myriad technical and strategic advantages for business organizations and offers tips for successfully presenting your recommendations to corporate management. He also provides far-reaching advice on a host of system design, planning, and implementation issues as he: Helps you evaluate the feasibility of client/server computing in your organization Shows how to maximize the value of moving to client/server computing Develops a model for making the most cost-effective database placement and partitioning decisions Provides a rigorous framework within which to plan, implement, and support a world-class client/server system Supplies cost/benefit templates guaranteed to persuade the most skeptical mainframer Describes a methodology for ongoing assessment of client/server's impact on your business Cost-Effective Strategies for Client/Server Systems is must reading for IT managers, CIOs, systems planners and administrators, and all those involved with the planning, design, and implementation of business information technology.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471128465
• ISBN13: 9780471128465
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.8" x 7.8"