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"Globalization is a fact. You can't stop it; it has already happened; it is here to stay. And we are moving into a new global stage.
A radically new world is taking shape from the ashes of yesterday's nation-based economic world. To succeed, you must act on the global stage, leveraging radically new drivers of economic power and growth. Legendary business strategist Kenichi Ohmae¿who in The Borderless World, published in 1990, predicted the rise and success of globalization, coining the very word¿synthesizes today's emerging trends into the first coherent view of tomorrow's global economy¿and its implications for politics, business, and personal success.
Ohmae explores the dynamics of the new ""region state,"" tomorrow's most potent economic institution, and demonstrates how China is rapidly becoming the exemplar of this new economic paradigm. The Next Global Stage offers a practical blueprint for businesses, governments, and individuals who intend to thrive in this new environment. Ohmae concludes with a detailed look at strategy in an era where it's tougher to define competitors, companies, and customers than ever before.
As important as Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations, as fascinating as Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree, this book doesn't just explain what's already happened: It offers a roadmap for action in the world that's beginning to emerge.
- New economics for a borderless world: Why Keynes' and Milton Friedman's economics are history¿and what might replace them
- Leveraging today's most powerful platforms for growth: From Windows to English to your global brand
- Technology: driving business death¿and rebirth: Anticipating technological obsolescence¿and jumping ahead of it
- Government in the post-national era: What government can do when nation-states don't matter
- Leadership and strategy on the global stage: Honing your global vision and global leadership skills
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Customer Reviews:
Provides both businesses and governments with a game plan for handling new challenges........2007-01-07
Both business and political science college-level readers seeking to understand the new opportunities and challenges of a closely-knit global community will find THE NEXT GLOBAL STAGE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN OUR BORDERLESS WORLD outlines a radical new worldview evolving from the nation-based economic picture of the past. Kenichi Ohmae is a business strategist who published THE BORDERLESS WORLD in 1990, which predicted the rise of globalization: here he explores the new players of this world stage, and provides both businesses and governments with a game plan for handling new challenges.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Good Analysis of Intl Trade by Regions.......2006-06-04
This is a well-written analysis of international trade. The title would be more accurate if changed from "Next" to "Present" Global Stage. Ohmae brings today's trade into clear focus, and (like a geographic economist) helps us understand that "global" trade is indeed limited by regional characteristics such as location, infrastructure, etc. Although nothing dramatically new is found, I would recommend it to students of business or economics to help understand global trade and economics as they "really" occur.
But the actual "Next" global stage will probably not resemble Ohmae's suggestions for less government and more freedom of international exchange rates. It will more likely include such characteristics as John Maynard Keynes' 1944 call for the establishment of a central world bank and a universal currency, the Bancor. Ohmae's suggestion that we adapt English as a universal language is really nothing new either. And his proposed causal relationship between "less government" and . . . "prosperity" in successful regions of the world grossly missed the fact that more powerful "world" governance structures and international compacts and trade agreements in fact have dramatically helped buttress trade and commerce in these very same regions.
But do read it ... it is worth your time and very informative.
Visionary Views of the Evolving Region-State Consistent with Friedman's Flattened World.......2006-06-03
Although globalization is a rich topic worthy of several volumes, it's a bit of a shame that corporate strategist Kenichi Ohmae's book duplicates much of the same thesis of New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman's huge best seller, "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century", a book I admired last year. Both authors deal with the phenomenon of a flattened world, a macro-level regrouping of economic forces which occur periodically on a global basis. Friedman explains that the burgeoning global fiber-optic network has transcended national borders and corporate entities to the point of starting a new structure for the economy, specifically the outsourcing of the U.S. economy's service and information-technology work to India and other developing nations. Based in Asia, Ohmae is obviously not as keen on outsourcing but more on the factors that have made outsourcing so attractive to the U.S., i.e., why has such hubs of cost-effective productivity sprouted in Asia. This is how his orientation differs from Friedman's.
The author's personal observations come from his work with individual companies in India, China, and Japan. From this perspective, he believes strongly that one of the most important developments for the future is the emergence of "region-states". The antiquated concept of "nation-states", along with the accompanying protectionism related to such political sovereignty, is being rendered obsolete in the global economic marketplace. As borderless centers of economic activity, "region-states" have all the practical building blocks for growth, such as a sizable population and an efficient transportation infrastructure. Ohmae points out that such entities can be seen forming in the Shuto-ken (Greater Tokyo) metropolitan area of Japan and Guangzhou (Canton) in China. They exhibit viable socio-economical units that create what Ohmae calls a "virtuous circle", i.e., an openness to outside ideas and people with various backgrounds and skills. This is the cultural characteristic the author considers vital in order for companies to thrive.
On a broader plain, there are a number of defining features to "region-states", chief among them the expeditious flow of communications and capital, which obviously attracts corporations and consumers. What Ohmae does well is paint a picture of the global economy not only driven by new technologies but also where knowledge has become the new currency. He is particularly insightful into how the future may look if the transference to the "region-state" fully occurs. Corporate leaders will need to be visionaries rather than just bottom-line-oriented consensus-builders, and strategy has to be mapped out to make greater sense of the chaotic new world. The author rather idealistically states that what will have greater value for leaders is sharpening their predictive skills in ascertaining upcoming trends, innovating quickly without all the data normally expected, and creating an environment where the norm is changing circumstances and extracting relevant information out of the clutter. I think Ohmae would have somewhat more credence if he could have given more practical advice on how to do this other than encouraging them to walk into the light. Nonetheless, his book makes for stimulating reading on the dynamic transformation in progress.
read 'the world is flat' instead.......2006-05-24
this book is very similar in scope and theme with the world is flat, you may almost think one copied from the other, but this book's info and presentation are much inferior, the world is flat is a much more enjoyable and informative read
The Next Stage Is Here Now.......2006-04-30
Yes, this is a borderless world in many respects and these boundaries will continue to thin. Author Keniche Ohmae has
been around, writing "The Borderless World" in 1990, among
other books. He's studied and researched economic global interdependence and its ramifications for many years, having written his first piece of work in the early 1970s. Some of
his point from his book "The Next Global Stage" are:
Concept of the Region State:
This trend had been in the making for a long time. Author
Ohmae has devoted a sizeable portion of "The Next Global Stage" to this topic. Economic interests of a region have been, are now, and will continue to supersede governmental nation-state interests. Mr. Ohmae listed several regions (cities and geographical areas) that are currently experience and will continue to see tremendous growth and prosperity. This growth is happening literally right in front of us. Everyday I see
the changes. I live in one of these cities noted by Ohmae and see the physical, attitudinal, and economic changes, first-hand. It's an education to observe and experience this
rapidity of transformation.
Although I do believe in a rising tide lifting all the boats, this rapidly expanding pie isn't all-inclusive, as it can't realistically be in the real world. I personally see major outsourcing, 100% Foreign and Joint Venture investing, Capital Flight, and FDI to build infrastructure and provide training
for local employees and feed a local tax base. I do believe this is a win-win situation for most. Not every case is however, win-win. Currently in Vietnam for example, certain foreign companies negotiated with the government to build factories and pay local workers below minimum wage. Two governments were competing for these companies, and the
cheapest labor costs attracted them to come. The result: strikes because of bare-subsistence wages and long working
hours to the point of exhaustion. This book, like most,
focuses on only certain portions of the pie.
The Post National Era:
The diminishing significance of national governments and the lessening role of the nation-state has become abundantly clear as of 2006. This phenomenon is still evolving from its incipient stages. As global economic interdependence and international economics and trade become the primary issues
and concerns in the relationship between two or more countries (nation-states), one question to consider is: what will be the role of the political governments?
It's not a simple question, but the answers are practical. Governments will facilitate trade relations, protect the
general interests of the nation-state with issues such as currency valuations, protect its population (workers) and *certain* industries. This is the role of a Fiduciary. Governments will increasingly utilize economic policy and
trade more and more as leverage, when necessary. And much moreso than in the past.
We should ask, as the world flattens, "Whose interests are
being served?" Industries and corporations? Or individuals? The answers should be both, and the symbiotic ratio should be scrutinized. Is the individual a participant, or a voyeur?
Are these two mutually exclusive? No.
There are many positives to the next global stage we are entering. One benefit, is mobility. Fortunate in some circumstances are the industries that are much more mobile
and have the ability to relocate and operate, produce, and manage, elsewhere. An example noted by Ohmae was the current U.S. administration's stance on stem cell research. Stem cell research is highly restricted to placate the far-right-wing Christian conservative base. However, the U.S. is not the
only option for these companies, and some have relocated
outside of the U.S. to do R & D. These domestic as well as
other foreign companies are making gains in their research. Pacifying a domestic political base had not only local and domestic consequences, but also allowed for a global
alternative and consequences. Decades ago, it wouldn't
have been so easy. There is choice, with more transparent borders. Ohmae discusses what we are latently aware of, and
the beauty of this book is that he gets deeper into the mechanics, and more importantly to where we are headed in the near and long-term future. Ending agricultural subsidies
seems prudent. Many still resist in this. In the future,
they may or may not. A good point the author reminded us of
was the the fear of Japan by the U.S., not so long ago. "Look out. The Japanese are buying everything." Not so, today.
The world has changed, and nations and industries that adapt will survive and prosper. Those that don't constantly adapt, will die out. Now, after years of dismal circumstances, Japan is on the rebound, according to most. What is the number one reason: Japan changed. They had to. We all have to. The
Post National Era = Less Influence of Keynesian Economic Policy. As the world has evolved this makes sense. "The
Next Global Stage" is a highly recommended, informative,
great read.
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"Customers are the heart of any business. But we can't succeed if we develop only one talk addressed to the 'average customer.' Instead we must know each customer and build our individual engagements with that knowledge. If Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is going to work, it calls for skills in Customer Data Integration (CDI). This is the best book that I have seen on the subject. Jill Dyché is to be complimented for her thoroughness in interviewing executives and presenting CDI."
-Philip Kotler, S. C. Johnson
Distinguished Professor of International Marketing Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
"In this world of killer competition, hanging on to existing customers is critical to survival. Jill Dyché's new book makes that job a lot easier than it has been."
-Jack Trout, author, Differentiate or Die
"Jill and Evan have not only written the definitive work on Customer Data Integration, they've made the business case for it. This book offers sound advice to business people in search of innovative ways to bring data together about customers-their most important asset-while at the same time giving IT some practical tips for implementing CDI and MDM the right way."
-Wayne Eckerson, The Data Warehousing Institute author of Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business
Whatever business you're in, you're ultimately in the customer business. No matter what your product, customers pay the bills. But the strategic importance of customer relationships hasn't brought companies much closer to a single, authoritative view of their customers. Written from both business and technicalperspectives, Customer Data Integration shows companies how to deliver an accurate, holistic, and long-term understanding of their customers through CDI.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent CDI Resource.......2007-03-15
As with her past books, Jill once again takes a "hot" subject - in this case, customer data integration - and addresses the questions "Why do I need to care?" and "How does this impact my business?" The book is for anyone (functional and technical) who wants a practical understanding of CDI, i.e., its relation to other data management issues and what it looks like and how it plays out in the "real world." As can be expected from Jill, the book includes plenty of case studies and examples so that readers can learn how others are succeeding (or not) in this arena.
The book is easy and enjoyable to read - it's like having Jill and Evan sitting right beside you having a discussion on a topic they are very passionate about. The book is complete with diagrams, assessment questions and manager do's and don't's lists at the end of each chapter. These tools are extremely helpful for folks like me. As a software vendor who needs to understand the implications of data integration, this is a must-have book in my business library.
Great "how-to" for novices!.......2007-03-13
One of the strengths of this book is the author's ability to tie new
technology issues to real world examples. Dyche and Levy deliver a clear
and straight forward description of master data management and customer data
integration without getting caught up with esoteric terminology or the
academics of technology. They focus on providing me with details that can
help me (and others) understand the complexities and benefits of CDI in
business.
Like the case studies!.......2007-03-13
This book is perfect for the person that wants to learn the practical aspects of customer data integration. It's clear from the book's numerous case studies (more than 10) that the authors have spent the time and energy researching what companies REALLY do when it comes to implementing master data management in the customer data integration space. There are many places to read about an academic approach to this topic -- this book provides a refreshing, real world perspective of how CDI works and how real companies use this new technology.
Good book to read and learn.......2007-03-12
I got this book from my account rep, who told me to read the chapter on Data Governance ("Who Owns the Data, Anyway?") While my company is still trying to figure out how to tackle the problem of "harmonizing" our consumer data, I was particularly interested in the chapters that explained why, with MDM and CDI, the formalized management of the data has got to be tackled now!
The book provides great tips for putting data governance in place. It also makes the point that execution capabilities for implementing data governance policies and rules are key-an important lesson for me and my staff.
I also liked the "What Managers Should Know" sections at the end of every chapter-the book did a good job of "cherry picking" the important points for executives like me who need quick value summaries. And, as the other reviewers have mentioned, the dozen or so case studies really paint a picture of how this stuff is really employed by successful companies.
Incredibly informative and helpful.......2007-03-11
I enjoyed reading this book. It provides a great background on why, though we have been trying to solve these problems for a long time through data modeling, CDI and MDM solutions are new and different from other technologies we have in-house.
Chapter 5 discusses an implementation metholology very specific to CDI, and Chapter 9 explains the team structure necessary to develop a CDI solution. It combines exactly the right level of management discussion with practitioner advice.
We are currently evaluating MDM vendors and my boss gave me this book to help me, as the book says, "make the internal pitch" for CDI. I work for a health care products company and we need to understand and match our vendors/customers/distributors. Customer Data Integration will help me and my team make the right business case!
Book Description
Is there room for improvement in the way your network SOA enables applications to communicate and perform services for one another? Then you'll want to take a serious look at Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA), which is fast becoming the leading SOA technology. With ESA, monolithic enterprise applications are broken apart into layers and offered as components that make extensive use of web services. With these components, companies gain the flexibility to craft the optimal IT infrastructure, eliminating bottlenecks and reducing the cost of implementation.
Our new guide, Enterprise Services Architecture: Designing IT for Business Innovation, demonstrates how your enterprise can transform current solutions into technology that will better serve the needs of your customers. Commissioned by the German software development company SAP, this definitive book is ideal for architects, developers and other IT professionals who want to understand ESA in a detailed way-especially those of you who want to move on the technology now, rather than in the next year or two.
Each chapter in the book is organized as a set of theoretical and practical questions with answers and examples that offer a clear story. To partition ESA into digestible portions, the authors boiled everything down into five concepts:
- "Conceiving a Vision for ESA" - This section delves deep into the technical aspects of ESA.
- "Consuming Services"-Using services to solve IT problems within the organization: This business-focused material shows you how services can be consumed immediately to configure standard software to solve a much larger set of problems.
- "Composing with Services"-Assembling new applications and services from existing services: This section demonstrates how services can extend standard software by building on existing functionality as much as possible.
- "Creating Services"-Creating new web services from scratch: How new services are created is described to provide technologists a deeper understanding of the tools and processes involved.
- "Controlling Services" -discusses new forms of governance based on services as well as lifecycle management, operations, security, and standards.
ESA is already changing the way vendors build applications and the way companies use them. Enterprise Services Architecture: Designing IT for Business Innovation presents a forward-looking approach that you can use to meet future development challenges with ease and agility.
Customer Reviews:
Very Helpful Book on SOA.......2006-07-11
This is a very helpful book on SOA because it provides the business case for SOA, an excellent technical overview, and real-life examples of how to use it.
While it is written from an SAP perspective, any IT group that is investigating SOA will find value in this book -- as it describes how SOA impacts different layers of the IT stack (from persistence to business objects, to process orchestration, and uesr interfaces). It also provides actual case studies.
SOA - reality today!.......2006-07-02
Being a student of business and information management, I had heard about SOA before, both from a technical perspective (XML, Web services) and from a business standpoint (shiny visions of flexible processes). This book is like the missing link between the two areas! It does not only tell you that SOA will change organizations but it also shows *how* exactly this is going to happen. The authors describe all relevenat aspects, starting from organizational change down to the SAP tools that can be used to model processes and to create your own service-oriented applications.
What surprised me most was that ESA - SAP's flavour of SOA - is business-ready today! This is illustrated with numerous real-world examples from a wide range of corporations. The case studies give a good idea of useful ESA applications and show how the transition to a service-oriented infrastructure could take place.
"Enterprise SOA" is suited for everybody interested in information management, even without any previous knowledge in the SOA field. After reading through the book, you'll finally know how SOA is changing the business environment and how SAP is bringing the concepts to life based on open standards. Although you won't know every technical detail, you'll have learned enough to plan your organization's future in a service-oriented world.
Customer Reviews:
Extremely disappointing.......2004-08-29
I found this book to be very short on any kind of meat or details. I'm very tempted to ask for my money back. There is no insight here - the book could have been compiled from a series of press releases. I think the standard of the book is typified by the 'bibliography' which seems to list every single article the author has ever written, including in magazines like Computer Shopper a decade ago. How that is supposed to be any help to anybody I cannot see. Do yourself a favor and skip this one.
Text for Technology & Project Managers.......2004-02-25
Linthicum writes a comprehensive text for technology managers. The 500-page book describes the world of EAI in detail with an emphasis on web services. It covers the benefits and limitations of web services, provides examples of where to use and not use them, and introduces standards with an emphasis on XML. The book encourages IT to make the much-needed shift from an information to a service-orientation. As such, a considerable part of the book dedicated to emerging EAI styles, such as SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), which requires IT to think in business terms and promises to speed development and decrease integration time when correctly implemented. Coders and those looking for technical information on standards should look elsewhere. The book contains many diagrams that are crude but effective. The writing style is unrefined and repetitive. This can be overlooked if you're willing to skim through them.
Good overview of EAI.......2004-02-19
Linthicum gives a good overview of integration approaches and middleware technologies. Makes sense of all the options out there.
OK as a nontechnical overview, although with flaws.......2004-01-17
An OK overview, not too much hype. However, the explanations are often so brief that the more complex standards (BPEL4WS being a particular case) would be impossible to understand if I hadn't read the official documents. The figures are plentiful and often awful. Many have little connection to the text that references them (13.2, 15.1, 15.2 being good examples). Entities in the figures are not explained in the text, and the text uses terms that do not show up in the figures. Also, anyone who includes a six-page listing of XML syntax without any kind of structuring, enhancement, or occasional word of explanation (e.g., listing 12.1) should be pilloried. Despite the fact that this has become some sort of sport, XML syntax was not designed to be read by humans in great quantities.
The style was a bit too chummy for my taste but perhaps that is what makes the books acceptable to nontechnical people? And the author should really find another favorite verb instead of "leverage". He employs it instead of "use", "implement", "incorporate", "include", and some more words, all of which would be either shorter or more clear (I thought I even spotted a couple of cases where "provide" seemed intended). By page 200 it gets to be a major irritation.
Current, and To the Point.......2003-11-26
I really enjoyed this book; it seemed to answer all of the questions I had about application integration. I also enjoyed the way this book is organized, it gets right to the point, gives you the skinny, and moves on to other topics.
However, you should know that this is a strategic book; there is not much here for hardcore developers. However, I be a manager.
Book Description
Organizations that are able to integrate their applications and data sources have a distinct competitive advantage: strategic utilization of company data and technology for greater efficiency and profit. But IT managers attempting integration face daunting challenges--disparate legacy systems; a hodgepodge of hardware, operating systems, and networking technology; proprietary packaged applications; and more.
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) offers a solution to this increasingly urgent business need. It encompasses technologies that enable business processes and data to speak to one another across applications, integrating many individual systems into a seamless whole.
Enterprise Application Integration provides a comprehensive examination of EAI. You will find an overview of EAI goals and approaches, a review of the technologies that support it, and a roadmap to implementing an EAI solution. You will also find an in-depth explanation of the four major types of EAI: data-level, application interface-level, method-level, and user interface-level. The book describes in detail the middleware models and technologies that support these different approaches, including:
* Application servers, including the use of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and ActiveX * Message-oriented middleware (MOM) and remote procedure calls (RPCs) * Distributed objects, looking at CORBA and COM * Database-oriented middleware and standards, including ODBC, JDBC, and OLE DB * Java middleware standards * Message brokers * New process automation and workflow technology
This practical guide to implementing an EAI solution leads you through all the major steps, including identifying sources of data, building the enterprise metadata model, process integration, identifying application interfaces, mapping information movement, selecting and applying the technologies, testing, and maintenance. Other key topics include integrating packaged applications such as SAP R/3 and PeopleSoft, integrating the supply chain using EAI, the role of XML, and process automation. Comprehensive, practical, and clearly written, this essential resource will help anyone involved in this important business area understand the nature of EAI, its tools and techniques, and how to apply it for a significant business advantage.
Amazon.com
Getting very different computer systems from multiple vendors--whether on desktops, servers, or mainframes--to share data and processing power is one goal of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). David Linthicum's Enterprise Application Integration tours the technologies needed to master EAI. For any IS manager or system architect who needs to see what EAI offers, this title will definitely fit the bill.
The text offers a wide-ranging perspective on the challenges facing EAI, as well as the strategies and technologies that can help it succeed. The author makes a compelling case for getting various "stovepipe" systems (like inventory and financial applications) to share information and processing power. (While data warehousing combines databases, EAI goes further and integrates everything--data, methods, and objects.) This text details strategies for effective EAI using a variety of middleware products (like message servers, CORBA, and COM).
A standout here is the attention to mainframe topics like "packaged" applications (especially SAP R/3) that don't lend themselves to integration easily, as well as "data scraping" (which lets legacy terminal applications communicate with newer systems). There is coverage here of tools and solutions from all major vendors, including IBM, SAP, Sun, and Microsoft. Later in the book, Linthicum argues for the strengths of Java for EAI, whether for remote processing or enterprise components like EJBs. He also looks at XML for data exchange in business-to-business e-commerce.
Few authors demonstrate such a wide knowledge of tools and technologies from so many vendors. This is precisely the perspective that EAI practitioners will undoubtedly need. Enterprise Application Integration delivers a thorough roadmap to the future of this emerging area of computing. It's a great place to start for any IS manager or software engineer seeking to understand the advantages of EAI for streamlining systems in an ever more connected world. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) overview, types of legacy systems, EAI and e-business, data-level EAI, application interface-level EAI, method warehousing and method-level EAI, user interface-level EAI, data scraping, guide to the EAI process, middleware models, transactional middleware, XA and X/Open basics, RPCs, messaging (Microsoft MSMQ and IBM MQSeries), distributed objects, CORBA and COM, database APIs for middleware (ODBC and JDBC), Java middleware, integrating SAP R/3 and PeopleSoft packaged applications, supply chain integration and business-to-business e-commerce, XML basics, message brokers, process automation, and the future of EAI.
Customer Reviews:
Good survey of pre-web services EAI.......2005-10-06
Linthicum has an easy-to-read writing style and explains each technology he covers at the introductory to moderate level of depth. The descriptions are ample for any manager and useful for technologists needing a concise reference to get the big picture of the technology they are beginning to work with. There are lots and lots of clear diagrams. You can learn a lot fast from this book, especially if you are new to EAI. I have quite a bit of integration experience yet I found many sections quite helpful (typically in areas where I had not already done a project).
Since Amazon has the table of contents on line I won't rehash everything the book covers. Suffice it to say it addresses every significant EAI technology for distributed architectures from client, middleware or database tiers, except for web services. There is also some coverage of centralized architectures (mainframe, midrange) and how they can interact with the distributed world. The book also addresses some famous (infamous?) applications such as SAP and integration approaches for them. The author is careful to not to sell his software though his company sells EAI tools. You get an expert without the pitch.
I think it is most useful to note the book was published around 2000 when web-services were hardly on anyone's radar. XML was on the scene and the book talks about it plenty. Currently though you can't discuss EAI without discussing web services. They are very useful, but my experience at the time of this review is all but the wealthiest customers are being slow to deeply adopt due to technical skills transfer in their staffs, etc. Further, the web services community is splintering into complex standards versus grass roots movements (AJAX, RSS, etc.). That means this book still covers a lot of technologies customers really use every day and will for a long time with or without web services. I do not fault the author for not covering what didn't exist when he wrote the book, just consider these things before making your purchase decision.
Another area of the book that is lacking is security coverage. I literally only found one paragraph that really discussed security and it mostly said that it is an issue. Again, the industry is not working in the author's favor. Security in integration is nothing but a problem in virtually every technology you hear about (including web services). So don't buy the book for its practical approach to security issues because they are well beyond its scope (hard to find anywhere).
If you can live without web services and security info yet need to learn about practically every other aspect of multi-tier EAI, this is a good book.
A book only for entry-level students.......2005-06-01
As an experienced EAI architect, I felt very disappointed at this book. The book aim either at high-level managers to give them an introduction of what EAI is or at students who don't know anything about EAI. It is full of lot of abstract concepts without any implementation plan or idea. Most of tech described are out of date.
I think a good book talking about EAI at least should have a chapter to compare all possible integration ways and should give readers their pros and cons. Also a good should talk about EAI vendors, such as IBM, Vitria, WebMethod, etc. What they really did, how they did, what we should concern today. Of course, a case study is necessary.
If you, an experienced EAI developer or architect, would like to know or get more details about how to do it, you don't need this book.
Great Book for the New Guy.......2003-11-16
Just getting going in this world and this book was my Bible. The book does a great job explaining this complex stuff from the very basics to the more sophisticated topics. I found the book to be exactly what I needed, albeit a bit pricy.
I'm writing this review for you, the buyer - not me!.......2003-09-09
For me to take the time to write a review, I must feel quite passionate (positively or negatively) about an issue. I'm trying to save you money and, even more so, your valuable time in not reading this weak book!
I SO DISLIKE THIS BOOK! I liken it to an HTML book that I bought in 1995 (that is now deep under some land fill). Like the HTML book, almost ALL of this EAI book's verbage is spent on extremely high level concepts and yields little in the way of concrete 'actionable information' that you can actually use. It spends time on the development of the author's own taxonomy of different types of EAI (data-level, app-level, UI-level... ad nauseum). If I saw any useful approaches or code in this book I certainly do not remember it.
IMO, if you want to architect, design, and !DO! EAI do not burn your time on this book. Find another source.
On the other hand, if you are of the type (prevalent in our industry today) who smile a lot, wear the right clothes, and speak with passion and authority on things you know nothing about, you will read this book, learn new buzz words, and write back with your own five-star review. Not me! I need to get things done without flapping my arms.
Great EAI Primer!.......2003-06-06
I recently completed an EAI project and read this book to get a greater insight into this evolving field. David Linthicum gives a great overview of EAI and the various components that are involved.
It is a fast and easy read with lots of cool illustrations. I did not get bogged down at all and came away with a good high level view of EAI. For a book written over 3 years ago, my hat is off to David for writing a book that is still so current.
Good insight into the 4 main types of EAI, Message Brokers, Java, XML/XSLT, Distributed Objects, Integrating ERP's (ie. SAP, PeopleSoft), and other topics too.
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Over the past decade or so, systems integration has become a key factor in the operations, strategy and competitive advantage of major corporations in a wide variety of sectors (e.g. computing, automotive, telecommunications, military systems and aerospace). Systems integration is a strategic task that pervades business management not only at the technical level but also at the management and strategic levels. This book shows how and why this new kind of systems integration has evolved into an emerging model of industrial organization whereby firms, and groups of firms, join together different types of knowledge, skill and activity, as well as hardware, software, and human resources to produce new products for the marketplace. This book is the first to systematically explore systems integration from a business and innovation perspective. Contributors delve deeply into the nature, dimensions and dynamics of the new systems integration, deploying research and analytical techniques from a wide variety of disciplines including, the theory of the firm, the history of technology, industrial organization, regional studies, strategic management, and innovation studies. This wealth of research capability provides deep insights into the new model of systems integration and supports this with an abundance of empirical evidence. The book is organized in three main parts. The first part focuses on the history of systems integration. Contributors trace the early history of systems integration using different industrial examples. The second part presents theoretical and analytical aspects of systems integration. Contributions concentrate on the regulatory and cognitive features of systems integration, the relationships between systems integration and regional competitive advantage, and the way in which systems integration supports the competitive advantage of firms. The third part takes industry and firm-level approaches. Contributions focus on different sectors and highlight the specificity of systems integration in various industrial domains, stressing its importance for systems integration in the case of complex capital goods, such as aircraft and telecommunications equipment, as well as consumer goods, such as personal computers and automobiles.
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Transform your business into a customer-centric enterprise
Gain a complete and timely understanding of your customers using MDM-CDI and the real-world information contained in this comprehensive volume.
Master Data Management and Customer Data Integration for a Global Enterprise explains how to grow revenue, reduce administrative costs, and improve client retention by adopting a customer-focused business framework.
Learn to build and use customer hubs and associated technologies, secure and protect confidential corporate and customer information, provide personalized services, and set up an effective data governance team. You'll also get full details on regulatory compliance and the latest pre-packaged MDM-CDI software solutions.
Customer Reviews:
The book any CIO should read to dive into MDM .......2007-07-13
This book is a great compendium of current technology and business issues around MDM and CDI, with a foreword from Aaron Zornes. It provides an expert view on business drivers, architectural approaches and implementation issues. It is worth mentioning the chapter on Vendors Landscape where the authors review current market players competitive advantages. Easy to read for both business and IT managers and it has very interesting appendixes with glossary included! The book any CIO and Business Executive should read to be aware of whats going on in the MDM field.
Carme Artigas - CEO Synergic Partners
The Bible on MDM and CDI.......2007-05-31
Plenty of companies are making money despite doing a subpar job at managing/accessing their data. But a new threat is compounding the negative effects of poor data management: Out of control volume!
According to IDC estimates, in 2007 for the first time, we'll see the amount of digital information generated surpass the storage capacity available. It's a huge wake-up call for businesses. It's no longer a nice extra to invest in technology that will help turn data into information assets, but a true business imperative.
Thanks to this book you have the bible on master data management (MDM) and customer data management (CDI) solutions. Done well, they have the potential to tap previously unrealized revenue streams and create a framework that can improve information accuracy, consistency and security to stem the rising tide on out of control data.
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The Definitive Guide to SOA: BEA AquaLogic Service Bus targets professional software developers and architects who know enterprise development, but are new to enterprise service buses (ESBs) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) development. This is the first book to cover a practical approach to SOA using the BEA AquaLogic Service Bus tool. And it's written from the "source"--BEA Systems AquaLogic product lead Jeff Davies.
This book provides hands-on information to developing SOA-driven applications with ESBs as central components. It also gives strategic guidance on SOA planning, web service life-cycle management, administration of an ESB, and security considerations. Author Jeff Davies is careful to cut through theory and get straight to demonstrating successful use of the product where SOA really counts.
Customer Reviews:
Great book.......2007-09-08
What I like the most about this book is that the book explains more about HOW to use ALSB to create and manage web services than just how to use ALSB which you can learn by reading the documentation.
I had played around with ALSB a few weeks before getting this book but had difficulty understanding some of the concepts and best practices. This book does a great job of explaining both the high-level concepts such as how to map your web services to your internal services/applications and low-level concepts like when to use a pipeline pair instead of a route. It also explains best practices for some issues which I have not been able to find anywhere else.
Expensive guide to unavailable BEA software.......2007-08-19
It may be the definitive guide to Aqualogic but since BEA is having a problem making the software available I wouldn't know. So I didn't get past chapter 1 which reads like marketing literature for BEA's software.
Personally, I think having "SOA:" in the title is misleading.
Explore SOA with AquaLogic Service Bus.......2007-07-08
An ESB is in the core of most enterprise SOA implementations and AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB) is one of the leading ESB. This book covers all the features expected from a moderen ESB using realistic use cases and samples that run on ALSB. Once you downloaded the samples you will have a library of solutions that may be applied to your own projects or may be used to explore ALSB features. In addition the book covers the service design, specially the design of composite and orchestrated services deployed on the bus. Although the book is written particularly for ALSB, the topics covered in it will give you very good idea on any modern ESB. I found this book very useful for my projects; applied many of the solutions included in this book. I recommend it for new beginners as well as experienced service developers, SOA architects, and managers overseeing SOA projects.
Excellent Book.......2007-06-08
I have read other SOA books. The Definitive Guide to SOA was a pleasant read. It was well worth for the price of the book. The book not only explains the concepts of SOA, but also shows how to practice SOA using BEA AquaLogic Service Bus. I have been using AquaLogic Service Bus for a while and have some familiarity. I found some new SOA techniques from this book that I was unaware of and are not available in the product documentation.
Folks who are evaluating an ESB or using ALSB, should get a lot of value out of the book. Even for the folks who are new to SOA and want to learn the SOA concepts, this book is very useful. The best part is that you can download a copy of AquaLogic Service Bus from BEA's website and practice SOA applications as you read the chapters.
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The Turn analyzes the research of information seeking and retrieval (IS&R) and proposes a new direction of integrating research in these two areas: the fields should turn off their separate and narrow paths and construct a new avenue of research. An essential direction for this avenue is context as given in the subtitle Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context. Other essential themes in the book include:
IS&R research models, frameworks and theories; search and works tasks and situations in context; interaction between humans and machines; information acquisition, relevance and information use; research design and methodology based on a structured set of explicit variables - all set into the holistic cognitive approach. The present monograph invites the reader into a construction project - there is much research to do for a contextual understanding of IS&R.
The Turn represents a wide-ranging perspective of IS&R by providing a novel unique research framework, covering both individual and social aspects of information behavior, including the generation, searching, retrieval and use of information. Regarding traditional laboratory information retrieval research, the monograph proposes the extension of research toward actors, search and work tasks, IR interaction and utility of information. Regarding traditional information seeking research, it proposes the extension toward information access technology and work task contexts.
The Turn is the first synthesis of research in the broad area of IS&R ranging from systems oriented laboratory IR research to social science oriented information seeking studies.
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Today's leading visionaries discuss the future of information technology
How will E-commerce and E-consumers interact in 2020? What will the relationship between man and machine, man and information, and information and machine mean for future generations? The Invisible Future assembles an elite group of 17 business and academic leaders to answer these and many other fascinating, strategically critical questions. The original essays they provide are as provocative and as powerful as the topics they discuss.
This wide-ranging collection offers tactical insights into the future of technology and computing. Essential reading for executives engaged in strategic planning, and anyone interested in the future of technology, The Invisible Future includes never-before published essays by:
- Rodney Brooks
- John Seely Brown
- Rita Colwell
- Michael Dertouzos
- Alan Kay
- Ray Kurzweil
- Bob Metcalfe
- And more
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How will E-commerce and E-consumers interact in 2020? What will the relationship between man and machine, man and information, and information and machine mean for future generations? The Invisible Future assembles an elite group of 17 business and academic leaders to answer these and many other fascinating, strategically critical questions.
Customer Reviews:
I received Wedding Workout!!!.......2004-01-23
I ordered this book a week ago. But I received a book tiltiled
"The Wedding Workout". Do you think if the sender is responsible
for what he did????????????????????
Thought-provoking perspectives from IT cognoscenti.......2003-03-27
This is a collection of eighteen essays that came out of a 2001 ACM conference. The subjects centered around the future of computers in our lives, but some discussed robotics, bioscience, astrophysics and oceanography. Several focused on ubiquity or "ambient intelligence" as one author called it. Written by some leading minds in science, information technology and others, the essays discuss future challenges and possible scenarios in their respective fields.
While a few of the papers leaned to the pretentious or the superficial in their commentary, overall I found the essays to be informative and well written. The learned cast of writers included the likes of Michael Dertouzos (Director of the MIT Computer Science Lab), Alan Kay (a founder of Xerox PARC), Bob Metcalfe (co-inventor of Ethernet, WYSIWYG interface), John Seely Brown (Chief Scientist of Xerox), Rodney Brooks (Director of the AI Lab at MIT), Vint Cerf and Ray Kurzweil,. Most papers had a good list of references for further reading.
Highly Recommended!.......2002-03-23
The gates to the human genome have fallen, nano-technology is redefining life itself, and Moore's law continues to work its magic. But is there a dark side to the technology juggernaut? The answer provided by the contributors to this cutting-edge tome is a definite, "maybe." If technology cannot be made more human-centric - designed to respond to human wants and needs - its promise could indeed be thwarted. We from getAbstract strongly recommend this book to anyone whose work helps to hone technology's cutting edge, and for those who just hope to stay on the safe side of the blade.
Information Age crystal ball.......2001-11-22
If you are looking for some sound clues about the future being shaped by information technology, this book is for you. It's informative and insightful about what's coming down the information highway. It's also a good read, even for those of us who are not technocrats, but want to know how technology will affect our lives in the coming years.
A "Must-Read" for Futurists.......2001-11-08
As co-editor of NewsScan Daily, the Internet publication focused on the social aspects of information technology, I consider "The Invisible Future" a "Must-Read" because it offers so many thought-provoking essays for people interested in computers, in the future, or the future of computers. Peter Denning has brilliantly edited the book to focus on what 's really important about computers -- both now and in the future, both as they are and as they really ought to be (and will be).
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