Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture: Strategies to Transform Information Systems in the Era of Big Data - Softcover

Luisi, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128002050 ISBN 13: 9780128002056

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2014

Synopsis

Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture is a practical hands-on instruction manual for enterprise architects. This book prepares you to better engage IT, management, and business users by equipping you with the tools and knowledge you need to address the most common enterprise architecture challenges. You will come away with a pragmatic understanding of and approach to enterprise architecture and actionable ideas to transform your enterprise. Experienced enterprise architect James V. Luisi generously shares life cycle architectures, transaction path analysis frameworks, and more so you can save time, energy, and resources on your next big project. As an enterprise architect, you must have relatable frameworks and excellent communication skills to do your job. You must actively engage and support a large enterprise involving a hundred architectural disciplines with a modest number of subject matter experts across business, information systems, control systems, and operations architecture. They must achieve their mission using the influence of ideas and business benefits expressed in simple terms so that any audience can understand what to do and why. Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture gives you the tools to accomplish your goals in less time with fewer resources.

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Review:

"...a balanced introduction to the field of EA. It will help business managers trying to achieve their strategic goals with the help of ICT systems in particular, and help them understand what EA can do to help." --Computing Reviews,  September 2014

About the Author:

James Luisi has over 30 years of experience within business and IT, where he has gained a unique perspective that contributes to the way business and IT collaborate to address the conditions that result from the cycles of acquisition and rapid expansion in ways that serve the customer, shareholder, and business and IT stakeholders. A family business owner, he is also insurance and series 7 and 24 licensed, with experience in dealer banking, brokerage, securities exchanges, commercial banking, retail banking, life insurance, property and casualty, and portfolio management. He has experience in the government sector, defense and intelligence, very large databases (VLDB), cloud computing, and several areas of artificial intelligence (AI), such as natural language processing (NLP). The foundation of Luisi's IT background rests upon large information systems, control systems, database technologies, artificial intelligence, operational workflow and most every discipline of enterprise architecture and infrastructure architecture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0128002050
• ISBN 13: 9780128002056
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372