TY - BOOK AU - Cook,Melissa A. TI - Building enterprise information architectures: reengineering information systems SN - 9780134402567 U1 - 658.4038011 COO PY - 1996/// CY - Upper Saddle River, NJ PB - Prentice Hall KW - Information technology KW - Business KW - Information storage and retrieval systems N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-183) and index; Historical perspective Gaining support for an enterprise informational architecture The business approach to enterprise information architectural design The ballpark view of the process architecture The ballpark view of the data architecture The business owner's view The business views of the technology architecture Making it happen N2 - In this book, noted expert Melissa A. Cook shows you how to put business management back in charge of processes and information, using easy-to-understand principles that have worked since antiquity. Whether you are an executive manager or a technical professional, you can use these principles to integrate the enterprise with information systems that are more flexible, less complex, less expensive, and fully supportive of your business process reengineering efforts. Building Enterprise Information Architecture is, in short, field guide for taking control of information technology and making it serve your bidding - instead of the other way round ER -