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Books : Computers & Internet : Programming : Software Design, Testing & Engineering : Reengineering
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The manager's guide to building a business-oriented information systems architecture. Written for IS and corporate management, CIOs, and consultants. Provides a practical, easy-to-use framework for developing and implementing an enterprise information architecture aligned with business requirements. Learn to eliminate redundancy, control costs, and deploy new technology in an orderly way.
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An information systems trailblazer in the domains of decision support and factory and supply chain synchronization, the Second Edition of Re-Engineering the Manufacturing System stays true to its title, once again bestowing uniquely straightforward instructions for designing, installing, and operating manufacturing information systems. This updated and expanded source takes care to clarify the often blurred concepts of synchronization and optimization, and offers implementation advice from four discrete angles to yield better bottom-line results. It shows how to exploit an information system, rolling ERP system implementation into the TOC framework to promote profit materialization.
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Exceptionally practical in approach, this volume provides a “street smarts” survival guide for business professionals, information systems experts, managers, and executives who have been charged with making radical changes — i.e., business reengineering — in their organizations. It outlines a tried-and-tested systematic and interdisciplinary approach that addresses all facets of organization change—in business policies and control, systems and technology, organizational relationships and business practices, and reward programs. Reviews the basic principles for quality business reengineering; shows how to create a new type of team structure that will involve the right people throughout the life of the project; outlines an 8-step life-cycle methodology for getting the reengineering project done as effectively and efficiently as possible; describes obstacles and problems that may be encountered and how to overcome them; and tells how to transition a continuous process improvement mode so reengineering will never have to be done again. For systems designers, analysts, administrators, software managers, maintenance managers.
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Teaches the basics of IDEFO and defines the method's application in BPR efforts with diagrams, case studies, and practical appendices. Paper. DLC: Reengineering (Management).
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This book is for the professional financial manager, accountant, or bookkeeper who needs to learn the basics of SAP R/3 FI quickly, without wading through a morass of technical jargon. Featuring a clear, functional outline, copious sample screens, and simple step-by-step instructions, Using SAP R/3 FI presents the most widely used FI functions in plain, argot-free English, following menu lines from the actual program.
The book also provides details about using FI for international business, such as translating the chart of accounts, keeping accounts in foreign currency, entering transactions in foreign currency, and revaluing accounts and open items in different currencies. You'll also learn the highlights of integrating R/3 FI with SD (order entry, shipping, and invoicing) and MM (purchasing, receiving, and inventory control). This remarkably detailed manual shows you how to use R/3 FI for all your basic accounting functions, including
* General ledger
* Accounts receivable
* Accounts payable
* System administration
* And much, much more.
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The great challenge of reverse engineering is recovering design information from legacy code: the `concept recovery' problem. This monograph describes up-to-date research dealing with this problem. It discusses a theory of how a constraint-based approach to program plan recognition can efficiently extract design concepts from source code, and it details experiments in concept recovery that support the authors' claims of scalability. Constraint-Based Design Recovery for Software Reengineering: Theory and Experiments presents models and experiments in sufficient detail so that they can be easily replicated.
This book is intended for researchers or software developers concerned with reverse engineering or reengineering legacy systems. However, it may also interest those researchers who are interested in using plan recognition techniques or constraint-based reasoning. The reader is expected to have a reasonable computer science background (i.e., familiarity with the basics of programming and algorithm analysis), but is not required to have a familiarity with the fields of reverse engineering or artificial intelligence (AI).
This book is designed as a reference for advanced undergraduate or graduate seminar courses in software engineering, reverse engineering, or reengineering. It can also serve as a supplementary textbook for software engineering-related courses, such as those on program understanding or design recovery, for AI-related courses, such as those on plan recognition or constraint satisfaction, and for courses that cover both topics, such as those on AI applications to software engineering.
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From the author of the bestselling Object-Oriented Software Engineering, this is the first book to combine object-oriented technology and business process engineering. Jacobson demonstrates how object technology can be used in the BPR model, how the requirements of a new software system can be captured as a result of business engineering, and much more.
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There are hundreds of thousands of AS/400s around the world that are running legacy applications - applications that were developed early in the life of the AS/400 or for the System/36 or System/38 or even the System/3! Many of these applications are the backbone of your business. They manage your payables and receivables, run your payroll, balance your accounts, and provide the tools that you use to make important business decisions. Should they be updated to more current technology to take advantage of the powerful enhancements IBM has made to the AS/400, OS/400, and RPG? Many would say "No" without thinking through the implications of that decision. Putting your company's IT resources in a condition of stasis while technology moves on may be a costly business mistake. It is not only possible, but also profitable, to derive some of the benefits of new technology from within a legacy application. IBM's recent enhancements provide a means of immediately increasing application reliability and programmer productivity with relatively little effort, while building a firm basis for the future of your business. While the technology means new concepts to be learned and new programming skills to be acquired, very few of these new enhancements are so radically different that they fall outside the grasp of the average RPG programmer. This book is a tutorial aimed at showing programmers how to convert and re-engineer their applications by taking them through a re-engineering of a sample application - step by step. Author Paul Tuohy covers conversion of RPG IV programs as well as re-engineering them to take full advantage of RPG IV and ILE. He also covers triggers, referential integrity, and APIs so that your applications can take advantage of all the new technology that is available today. This book will be a valuable aid as you evaluate your legacy applications and then move into re-engineering. Upon completion of this book, you will be able to: Understand the re-engineering process, assess the business reasons for re-engineering, evaluate legacy applications' need for re-engineering, enhance and modularize your applications and programs with RPG IV and ILE, know the difference between conversion and re-egineering with RPG IV, understand the basics and more advanced features of RPG IV, convert to RPG IV using IBM's or third party software, incorporate built-in functions to enhance your applications, understand and implement powerful subprocedures in your programs, enhance your applications design with prototyping, use ILE effectively in the re-engineering process, implement service programs to strengthen your applications, incorporate triggers and referential integrity for standardization and security of your database, and utilize the new, powerful APIs to broaden the scope of your application.
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The documentation is missing or obsolete, and the original developers have departed. Your team has limited understanding of the system, and unit tests are missing for many, if not all, of the components. When you fix a bug in one place, another bug pops up somewhere else in the system. Long rebuild times make any change difficult. All of these are signs of software that is close to the breaking point.
Many systems can be upgraded or simply thrown away if they no longer serve their purpose. Legacy software, however, is crucial for operations and needs to be continually available and upgraded. How can you reduce the complexity of a legacy system sufficiently so that it can continue to be used and adapted at acceptable cost?
Based on the authors' industrial experiences, this book is a guide on how to reverse engineer legacy systems to understand their problems, and then reengineer those systems to meet new demands. Patterns are used to clarify and explain the process of understanding large code bases, hence transforming them to meet new requirements. The key insight is that the right design and organization of your system is not something that can be evident from the initial requirements alone, but rather as a consequence of understanding how these requirements evolve.
* Describes how to reverse engineer a monolithic system to understand how it really works and how to identify potential problems.
* Includes reengineering patterns that tackle well-known reengineering techniques often encountered in object-oriented programming, such as introducing polymorphism, factoring out common behavior, detecting duplicated code, and understanding design.
* Shows how to build a culture of continuous reengineering for achieving flexible and maintainable object-oriented systems.
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Information technology matters. The formulation of business models and strategies is likely to be seriously flawed if it neglects new technological changes and repercussions. Information technology and organizational learning are both critical to attaining and sustaining competitive advantage. Based on these premises, and on the increasingly evident obsolescence of the traditional, hierarchical business model, the author takes an integrated approach to the discussion of organizational learning, new value propositions, supply-chain optimization, e-commerce, new perspectives on business process reengineering, collaborative business models, globalization of business, and the continuing trend toward virtual integration. This book is not another tired exhortation to take advantage of technology to improve corporate performance. One cannot utilize technology to its full potential without also overhauling the rigid, hierarchical business model that was designed for the command-and-control corporate environment of the industrial era. Tsai takes a comprehensive view of everything that needs to be done in order to make the most of emerging technologies. The new information economy calls for companies that foster strategic collaboration through a more horizontal organizational structure. A more synchronized supply chain yields better customer service, higher quality, faster delivery, and lower inventory. In the customer-centric environment, a new value proposition is essential. Business processes must be fast, focused, flexible, responsive, and nimble. With the knowledge gained from this book, one should be able to face the future with an ability and capacity to discern technology policies and make decisions concerning strategic positioning and competitive business strategy.
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It is said that business re-engineering is part of our transition to a post-industrial society. The purpose of this book is to present an approach to how to reorganize businesses using the discipline of software engineering as a guiding paradigm. The author's thesis is that software engineering provides the necessary analytical expertise for defining business processes and the tools to transform process descriptions to support systems.
The author begins by introducing the concepts and needs for business reengineering and principles and practice of software engineering. He then shows how by concentrating on processes, a business can define the information base required and how it is to be constructed. As a result, any manager or technically-minded person will learn how to implement the reengineering of a business.
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Timely volume describing the theme of business engineering and procedure design in a detailed account of workshop experience explaining the approach in terms of a how to JAD implementation guide. DLC: Work groups.
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Save Big $-Outsource Instead! Is outsourcing your data center right for you? Daniel Minoli's Analyzing Outsourcing will give you the answer! It's loaded with real-life case studies that show you how to maximize the benefits and minimize the organizational cost of outsourcing. Step-by-step, you'll discover how to assess your needs... establish an operating baseline... determine and document service requirements... online service and performance goals... accurately assess current and future costs, and much more. And, best of all, you'll discover specific techniques for weighing the pros and cons of choosing outsourcing. Outsource data processing, telecommunications, LANs, software development, technical support, and more; model IS environments to identify areas that can be properly outsourced; prepared outsourcing contracts and negotiate service requirements evaluate vendors and strike a good deal; bring outsourcing benefits right to your bottom line.
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This is a ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A742673. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The Mounted Maneuver Battle Laboratory at Fort Knox, Kentucky, conducted the third battle command re-engineering experiment (BCR III), during the period of April 12 to April 30, 1999. This report describes the research efforts of the Human Research and Engineering (HRED) of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in support of BCR III. This research is a key element of the ARL 5-year science and technology objective (STO) IV.G.10: cognitive engineering of the digitized battlefield. For BCR III, ARL's efforts were centered on the virtual exercise in which a model future strike force variant organization with modular semi-automated forces (ModSAF)-based displays and advanced combat systems, performed battle command operations in order to gain a more robust understanding of the potential offered by these technological and organizational capabilities. Within the framework of the BCR III overarching issues, ARL's focal point was associated with the sub-issue question: What is the impact of situational awareness certainty and its cognitive effect on decision making, information request, and staff dynamics? This report cites the findings from the application of two ARL cognitive engineering-based research instruments, as well as observation-based insights and commanders' comments recorded during a focus group session held by ARL following the final after-action review.
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Automatic Re-engineering of Software Using Genetic Programming describes the application of Genetic Programming to a real world application area - software re-engineering in general and automatic parallelization specifically. Unlike most uses of Genetic Programming, this book evolves sequences of provable transformations rather than actual programs. It demonstrates that the benefits of this approach are twofold: first, the time required for evaluating a population is drastically reduced, and second, the transformations can subsequently be used to prove that the new program is functionally equivalent to the original.
Automatic Re-engineering of Software Using Genetic Programming shows that there are applications where it is more practical to use GP to assist with software engineering rather than to entirely replace it. It also demonstrates how the author isolated aspects of a problem that were particularly suited to GP, and used traditional software engineering techniques in those areas for which they were adequate.
Automatic Re-engineering of Software Using Genetic Programming is an excellent resource for researchers in this exciting new field.