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'Destined to be a classic work on the topic, Enterprise Security Architecture fills a real void in the knowledge base of our industry. In a comprehensive, detailed treatment, Sherwood, Clark and Lynas rightly emphasize the business approach and show how
Security is too important to be left in the hands of just one department or employee -- it's a concern of an entire enterprise. Enterprise Security Architecture shows that having a comprehensive plan requires more than the purchase of security software -- it requires a framework for developing and maintaining a system that is proactive.
Customer Reviews:
Step by step professional.......2007-01-15
It is amazing how different books can be. I read dozens of information security management related books, but this one is only I can use in my everyday job. If you are consultant or professional CISO, this book offers tips of how to do things right and how to be efficient. It is information security management bible. Buy hardcover version because you will use it every day.
Really helpful for enterprise securty. Not a techie cookbook........2006-02-21
This is a particularly interesting book in that it proposes an approach to developing security architectures that are aligned with Business Needs. Most of the other literature that I have seen in this field seems to throw itself into technical detail and try to be a "cookbook" for techies.
The book is in two distinct parts - this first outlines the philosophy and approach of SABSA (Sherwood Applied Security Architecture) and the second draws on the authors' considerable experience in using SABSA in real-life scenarios, giving a set of "standard" services and mechanisms that should be considered when building an Enterprise Security Architecture.
If you are looking just to do techie "black box" security engineering with routers and servers then this book is not really for you. This is a book for those with a responsibility for enterprises where security can be seen as enabling the business rather than fighting it.
Like others with whom I have spoken, I liked the "quick notes" in the left hand column of every page that let's you speed read each chapter. They made it really easy to set a good insight into the subject quickly and focus on the areas that I really wanted to know more about.
One hidden gem in this book is the approach to Measuring Return on investment in security - it opened my eyes to using security as a business enabler.
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The latest edition of Curt White's top-selling text maintains a balanced approach between the technical and the practical aspects of data communications, providing a solid understanding not only of how things work, but how they can be applied to create business solutions. Updated to reflect new technologies, this text covers current concepts such as voice over wireless LAN, convergence, MPLS, and PPP, while maintaining the pedagogical elements that have been successful for students in the past.
Customer Reviews:
Great deal!.......2007-08-27
Great deal! Fast shipping! This item was in better than expected condition! Will buy from again!
Great book that provides all I need.......2006-12-23
I used this textbook for TDC course at DePaul.
It was really helpful and useful especially for newbie.
Plus the details are not too general.
I actually learned something..........2006-11-14
This book laid out as much information as possible without cluttering the pages with filler. There were several real-world examples, and the helpful diagrams really put the words into action. Now, there's any humor in this book, so don't expect to be entertained. And there's a lot of information in this book. I mean a lot. But if you actually want to learn something about networking and data communications, you won't be disappointed.
Integrating Technology and Management.......2003-10-06
I have been using this book for two years to teach a senior level management class how technology is used in today's business. As most of instructors would agree, it is sometimes (or always) difficult to draw management students' interest in technical issues. If you use this book, that wouldn't be a problem at all. Supporting the topics in the book by some case studies from contemporary business would even make your course indispensable.
Dr. Yasin Ozcelik
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Easy to read and understand.......2003-02-06
I used this book for an internet class so i ended up reading the entire book from chapter one to the end. It was a little boring at times, but it made it easy to understand the material and the diagrams were great. The only annoying thing was how in the first few chapters it kept saying what was beyond the scope of the book and what chapter you will be studying what and when. Stick to the material.
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Succeed in accounting with ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS: A BUSINESS APPROACH! Problem-solving aids, core cases, and a comprehensive case at the end of the text are just a few of the many tools that make learning and studying easy. Organized and presented in a way that is relevant to you and the role you'll play in your future career as a designer, user, and evaluator of information systems, this AIS textbook provides a strong conceptual foundation in accounting systems and control and helps you develop skills in documenting and analyzing transaction cycles and AIS data, identifying risks and controls, and using accounting applications.
Customer Reviews:
Good overview of how systems work.......2004-05-23
I was looking for a book that described in depth how the various cycles (e.g., Revenue Cycle) worked in conjunction with the various tables. Does an outstanding job with in-depth details where you not only learn the steps, but how the system is updated at each stage. Good material on controls, especially application controls that need to be built into the system. Normally I never look at case studies and assignments, but in this book, they were useful.
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Enterprise Information Systems: A Pattern Based Approach, 3e, by Dunn/Cherrington/Hollander presents a pattern-based approach to designing enterprise information systems with a particular emphasis on the enterprise-wide database. This edition is built on the idea that a separation between accounting information systems and management information systems should not exist. We believe patterns help people see the "big picture" of enterprises more clearly and therefore help design better systems. We believe you cannot identify anything that we need to account for that we do not also need to manage; nor can we identify anything we need to manage that we do not also need to account for. In this edition, we will show how a well-designed REA-based Accounting Information System is the Enterprise Information System.
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Worst_book.......2006-06-06
This book starts off with naive examples to illustrate the point. The illustrations were so childy that make it so rudiculous to read and understand it. Later in the book, the explanations get complicated and vague which confuses readers. Some chapters are more than 50 pages long and after you have read it, you will be more confuse than ever.I am a student and need to read a lot of books. This is by far the worst book I have ever read.
Confusing Content.......2006-01-23
This book is not well organized, the content is confusing and messed up, for a student the book talked too much on virtual and vague concept with out well explained , on the other hand the verbose description some times make you thinking, : " WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"
Neither fish nor fowl.......2005-01-05
I was a student in a college course that used this textbook. I'm happy that I earned the credits for it but not much else. This is a dismal textbook, plain and simple. It starts in chapter 1 where the authors engage in a lofty praise of reengineering. The fact that many reengineering projects did not accomplish the desired results does not even get mentioned by the authors. So much for their research! The rest of the book chiefly focuses on the description of a database based upon the various business processes. The examples show a very complex database. However, the information provided in the book would not be sufficient to design a similar one from scratch. Overall, this book focuses way too much on an academic view of business with little relation to the real world.
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The Advanced Planner and Optimiser (APO) is the software from SAP dedicated to supply chain management. This book provides an overview about the supported SCM processes and explains how to implement APO in a company. It is written from a long years' experience in implementation projects and provides project managers and team members with the necessary know-how for a successful implementation project. The focus of the book is on introducing modelling approaches and explaining the structure and interdependencies of systems, modules and entities of APO based on the release mySAP SCM 4.1. Another concern is the integration with R/3, both technically and from a process point of view. Since APO projects differ significantly from other SAP projects, some key issues and common mistakes concerning project management are mentioned as well.
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APO Concepts.......2007-01-25
It's the best book about APO I've ever read. For people that already have an idea of APO principles, it's a mix of technical and practical concepts. I recommend.
Good Overview of APO.......2006-08-24
Very useful information on APO. I have been an APO consultant for several years, and its a good source of information. Lots of information that is not readily available or known without searching for it. Recommended.
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Written from the manager's perspective, this new Third Edition prepares readers to improve the management of information using the latest information systems and technologies. The book shows how to analyze a situation, evaluate existing systems for managing information, design the features of new systems, and consider the issues associated with implementing them.
Customer Reviews:
Need More Information.......2000-01-31
The title of book seems pretty interesting. However, overall is not great. There should be more content especially the E-commerce topic.
Book Description
Easy-to-follow and understand, The Systems Thinking Approach to Strategic Planning and Management presents the first practical application of "systems thinking", a concept first introduced by Peter Senge in the Fifth Discipline as a new, better and elegantly simple A-B-C approach to strategic management, planning, and change. It provides a unique Systems Thinking ApproachÔ that places equal emphasis on planning, strategies, and change management processes in support of customer satisfaction.
Customer Reviews:
Systematic approach.......2004-01-06
As a person who is responsible for corporate planning for my company, I found this book extremely helpful in putting ideas and thoughts into structure, and thus able to approach strategic planning and management in a more systematic manner. Planning framework designed by using this Systems Thinking approach can be easily communicated to parties involved in the planning process, and be understood, accepted.
For independent consultants whom are looking for an approach to carry out their practises in this areas, this book is helpful too.
However, if you are looking for concise strategic planning implementation process, this book is somehow lacking. For that, I would like to recommend you to "Team-based strategic planning: A complete guide to structuring, facilitating, and implementing the process" by C. Davis Fogg.
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"Electronic Legal Research" is an excellent resource for anyone conducting legal research. The author proposes that all legal research is the same and presents skills that can be applied to any electronic database, including Westlaw, Lexis, the Internet and other research sources. "Electronic Legal Research" contains helpful information for the reader who may be a novice at electronic legal research and provides useful tools such as a web companion with state-specific links for legal research.
Customer Reviews:
An Excellent Resource for the Internet-savvy Public.......2002-12-08
I found this book to be helpful in conducting Internet searches in general, although it is written primarily for those in the legal profession. It is well-written, concise, and it appears the author went out of her way to put as much valuable information as possible into a small package.
Great Research Tool!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2001-09-25
I loved the format and ease of use.
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Today, companies capture and store tremendous amounts of information about every aspect of their business: their customers, partners, vendors, markets, and more. But with the rise in the quantity of information has come a corresponding decrease in its quality--a problem businesses recognize and are working feverishly to solve.
Enterprise Knowledge Management: The Data Quality Approach presents an easily adaptable methodology for defining, measuring, and improving data quality. Author David Loshin begins by presenting an economic framework for understanding the value of data quality, then proceeds to outline data quality rules and domain-and mapping-based approaches to consolidating enterprise knowledge. Written for both a managerial and a technical audience, this book will be indispensable to the growing number of companies committed to wresting every possible advantage from their vast stores of business information.
Key Features
* Expert advice from a highly successful data quality consultant
* The only book on data quality offering the business acumen to appeal to managers and the technical expertise to appeal to IT professionals
* Details the high costs of bad data and the options available to companies that want to transform mere data into true enterprise knowledge
* Presents conceptual and practical information complementing companies' interest in data warehousing, data mining, and knowledge discovery
Customer Reviews:
Excellent practise book in data quality.......2006-05-29
David has written an excellent data quality book. He focuses on a real works around data quality. He presents a practical approaches how to solve a different types of quality defects and also pointed out main quality principles. But reader must think how to apply mentioned principles and approaches in reader's organization.
Simply, good reading with application on a real cases.
David Loshin's book and quality improvement of New Zealand National Health Information.......2005-09-21
At the time the book was published I worked as a data quality manager at the New Zealand Ministry of Health focusing on the implementation of the Data Quality Strategy for National Health Databases. It was a great help for us. We've implemented many of David Loshin's principles. Most importantly it helped us to understand that the majority of our DQ problems were not due to the poor data management processes, but because of the inadequate system's design or poor data model, which was either conceptually or contextually incorrect, incomplete or inaccurate.
Its all in the Details.......2003-09-14
Most of the literature on Data Quality focuses on the challenges of creating and maintaining a data warehouse. Thankfully, for those of us trying to improve the integrity of the information in our OLTP databases, this book presents a methodology which is not specific to any one data environment.
This book is packed with lists of cases to consider for each step of the methodology. Each case is nicely documented. Actually, much of the book is taken filled with the documentation for each case, which may cause a person to lose sight of the methodology that is being presented.
I am person who prefers to learn concepts. I am not as interested in memorizing details. Hence, I would read this book, skipping most of the documentation in the lists, instead focusing on understanding the methodology. Thereafter, I would use this book as a reference when needing information on a particular step of the methodology.
Data Quality in the Real World.......2003-02-06
As a data warehouse practitioner for over 12 years, I was recently challenged at my current employer to help assemble a global data quality team and process. Having done much of the work before on a piecemeal basis, we made steady progress.
When I received my copy of "Enterprise Knowledge Management," I found two important things:
1. We were definitely on the right track, and
2. There were some things we had missed.
David Loshin has put together an excellent field guide to all aspects of data quality. It is very easy to understand, and contains practical, effective suggestions. Most importantly, it is a true "soup to nuts" guide to data quality. There is very little that you might need to improve your company's "knowledge quotient" that you will not find here.
I have heartily recommended this book to a number of people when asked about data warehousing and data quality. You'll not find a better handbook anywhere.
Management review.......2002-02-26
While I am not a technical person, this booked helped me enormously to understand the management issues that surround data quality. In today's world, I am shocked that more companies are not using this approach to save massive sums of money. This book has given me the tools to do so within my company. I highly recommend it!
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Keeping cool in the demanding e-development world.......2006-10-24
If you're about to start a new software development project, it's worth reading this book first. It will help you make some sense of today's demands on you that software development should be fast and iterative while meeting ever-changing requirements. James Highsmith offers and explains concepts like "adaptive" and "emergent" and explains what to do with them in real life.
It's not a complete how-to book, though. While it has a lot of detail, be prepared to read it and discuss with your co-workers to figure out what part of the ideas you may be able to apply on your upcoming project.
"Rock climbing, Joel ! Rock climbing !".......2003-05-02
The quote is from Mystery Science Theater 3000, and is used to identify a movie scene so repetitious that it seems like torture. But it could also apply to this book. I've lost count of how many times Highsmith has padded his text with rock climbing metaphors. It's annoying and distracting and it adds only fluff. I've developed the practice of skipping the paragraph whenever Highsmith starts another inane mountaineering passage.
There is some meat in this book, but you've got to nibble around a whole lot of loess to get it.
Leadership and collaboration.......2003-03-31
"Adaptive Software Development" is a light, human-powered methodology for development of complex software systems. Unlike Extreme Programming, Adaptive Software Development is less disciplined and does not mandate individual techniques like On-Site Customer, Pair Programming or Automated Tests. It rather encourages adaptation, which depends on leadership and collaboration.
One of the vital components of Adaptive Software Development is clearly articulated Project Mission, Shared Vision and Clear Focus, and it is the responsibility of the whole team to create the mission and use it on a day-to-day basis as an alignment tool to keep the common direction.
I would also highly recommend "Agile Software Development" by Alistair Cockburn in addition to this book.
MustRead.......2003-03-16
Compelling case for Adaptive Software Development (ASD), an approach enabling successful completion of complex software development projects. Draws on the theory of complex adaptive systems (CAS). Explains using judicious analogies with mountain climbing. Assembles ideas from the author's own extensive experience and readings. Describes in some detail the ideas of other authors that have influenced ASD. Excellent annotated bibliography allows the reader to pursue further study in any of a number of different directions.
It's hard to express just how good this book is. I can't recommend it highly enough. If you're interested in the currents of thought on software development variously labeled "extreme" or "agile," then I believe you will find Adaptive Software Development to be very near to their sources.
The author distinguishes a "complex" project from one that is merely "complicated." As one might well imagine, he would classify a project to develop the avionics software for the NASA space shuttle as complicated--but not complex: its goal is well defined and attainable by applying the stable laws of Newtonian physics. Development of an internet-based product for the consumer marketplace on the other hand is complex because one might expect almost anything to change during the course of such a project: target technology, competitive offerings, financing, marketing strategy, etc.
Complexity arises from moving fast in a continually changing environment.
Adaptive Software Development comprises
(1) Adaptive Conceptual Model--the theoretical foundation,
(2) Adaptive Development Model--a software development lifecycle for complex projects, and
(3) Adaptive Management Model--principles for managing complex projects.
(1) The Adaptive Conceptual Model proposes that a software development organization is a complex adaptive system like a marketplace or a flock of birds. According to the theory, CASs composed of independent agents acting for themselves without centralized control can under proper circumstances develop "emergent" capabilities exceeding the mere sum of the capabilities of the individual agents.
It is further proposed that only emergent capabilities are powerful enough to tame complexity. Software development organizations aspiring to do so must create the proper circumstances for the emergence of superior capabilities. The Development Model and the Management Model show the way.
(2) The Adaptive Development Model has three phases: Speculate, Collaborate, Learn. A typical project is expected to cycle through the phases several times. The output of each successive cycle converges on the final product of the project.
The beginning of each cycle is called "speculation" in preference to "planning" to reject the command-and-control philosophy that stifles emergence. ASD establishes a general direction, hypothesizes a product with a set of components, then puts the developers to work. Tasks are not specified in the ASD project plan--only the components to be completed by the end of the cycle.
Collaboration is the phase where development occurs. Under conditions of "diversity, rich relationships, unfettered information flow, and good leadership (p. 45)" collaboration can be the crucible of emergent capability. To foster this emergence, the project leader must keep the team "poised at the edge of chaos," imposing just enough rigor on the collaboration to keep it from spinning out of control. To impose any more rigor would stifle emergence. Borrowing from Ralph Stacey, Mr. Highsmith cites five dimensions for measuring how closely a project team approaches chaos. The goal is to structure collaboration so that it has just enough--but never too much--of each of the following:
1. Information Flow
2. Diversity
3. Rich Connectivity
4. Contained Anxiety
5. Power Differential.
Mr. Highsmith observes that adaptation, not optimization, is the key to success in a complex ecosystem. Software developers adapt by learning. ASD ends every cycle with specific collaborative learning activities including customer focus groups, technical reviews, post-mortems, etc. The adaptations resulting from the learning phase keep the output of subsequent cycles converging on a successful product.
(3) ASD gives to the project leader responsibility for establishing the conditions under which superior capabilities emerge from the collaboration of team members. This responsibility entails "the ability to help teams to understand the project's mission, to stand back and let the group struggle with mistakes, to encourage learning, to balance the need for flexibility and rigor, and to force decisions onto the group (pp. 209-210)."
To balance successfully between flexibility and rigor--poised at the edge of chaos--managers of complex projects must attend primarily to two structural elements: workstate and network.
ASD manages workSTATE in preference to workFLOW. Instead of monitoring the completion of tasks, the project leader tracks the completion of components. Tasks are not necessarily prescribed. Team members decide for themselves how to build the components. To scale up to large projects, workstate management defines explicit milestones for each component describing its degree of completion. Progress is tracked against these milestones.
The emergence of superior capability through collaboration depends on the communication network of the collaborators. For smaller, collocated teams with sufficient interpersonal skills, it will emerge informally. For larger teams, ASD prescribes a conscious effort to build it and to maintain it. The remote nodes of a virtual team are all too likely to fall into a state of insufficient interaction.
The collaboration network should provide team members just a little more information than they need, stopping just short of overload. Information clutter must be avoided. Content must not be provided without context (author, revision date, approval status, for example). The formal properties of the collaboration network must be identified and tuned to the needs of the complex project. A "collaboration service layer" of tools (mostly web-based) and practices must be installed. A new role, collaboration facilitator, extending the role of JAD facilitator, should be created to tend the collaboration network.
Is a software development organization really a complex adaptive system? No matter. Mr. Highsmith has ably used the theory of complex adaptive systems as a powerful metaphor for unifying many existing ideas about managing complex software development and for generating new ones--with at least as much validity as older theories have been applied in the past. Stimulating and refreshing. A must-read by any standard.
Solid theory behind the Agile movement.......2002-02-06
Highsmith postulates: "If the core of our belief system about managing organizations is rooted in the old science of deterministic Newtonian physics and survival-of-the-fittest Darwinian biology, then only a new science such as complex adaptive systems with an equally powerful philosophy and scientific foundation provides the credibility necessary for a major management cultural evolution."
He then persuasively uses the science and language of complex adaptive system theory to provide new conceptual models to guide complex software development projects. His presentation is refreshingly well thought out, synthesizing much of the best ideas in science and business management in the past decade to software development.
Highsmith succeeds is providing a theoretical basis for the Agile methodologies that are sprouting up everywhere (XP being the best known).
If you are looking for specific best practices of software development, look elsewhere. But if you want to understand the true nature of software development as well as principles in harnessing change as a competitive advantage, you will not find a better book. I couldn't recommend it any more strongly.
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