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Conway's Law Revisited: Successfully Aligning Enterprise Architecture
May 1, 2002
For investments in enterprise architecture to pay off, they must be based on a clear understanding of the organization. Whatever approach you choose to implement your enterprise strategy, an understanding of Conway's Law can help to make your alignment efforts successful.
Corporate Governance, Business Continuity Planning, and Disaster Recovery
Dec 1, 2005
To protect business stakeholders, corporate governance focuses a sharp eye on all measures and systems within the organization to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and standards. Michelle Johnston Sollicito points out the many required aspects of a proper business continuity plan and shows you where to look for holes in your process.
Creating a Fault-Tolerant Environment in Windows Server 2003
Aug 6, 2004
There are many ways to add fault tolerance to network services and resources running on Windows Server 2003 servers, and all without the hassle of third-party software. Find out how to use them in this chapter from Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Insider Solutions.
Creating a Secure Development Framework
Aug 27, 2004
Business applications can be weak spots in an otherwise secure network, but in this article, Glyn Geoghegan explains how to keep your applications as secure the rest of your IT infrastructure.
Creating an Information Security Policy
Nov 16, 2001
Scott Barman discusses how to create an information security policy that can be the basis for sound virus protection on your organization's network.
Creating an Integrated E-commerce Strategy
Jun 28, 2001
In this sample chapter, author Robert Plant considers a more systematic examination of the strategic factors involved in the process of e-strategy in order to better understand its process.
Creating Frameworks for Organizing Information
Jan 16, 2004
Software portals are becoming ever more common in enterprise development. However, designing them and deploying them requires you to consider how to organize information and applications in a way that makes sense to users. Learn the questions to ask yourself about this important topic -- and gain some of the answers.
Creating Presentations with OperaShow
Jul 23, 2004
While PowerPoint is a popular slide-making tool that's packed with bells and whistles, it's not always the best tool for creating presentation slides. Scott Nesbitt looks at OperaShow, a unique feature of the Opera web browser that turns the software into a presentation powerhouse.
Creative Intelligence, Leadership, and the Challenge of the Future
May 28, 2004
It is creative leaders and employees who introduce positive change and make quantum leaps forward in creating new products and processes. Alan Rowe explains how and why creativity should be encouraged within organizations.
CRM: Optimizing the Customer Experience
Aug 27, 2001
The goal of CRM is to recognize and treat each customer as an individual. In this article, excerpted from The CRM Handbook: A Business Guide to Customer Relationship Management, author Jill Dyche discusses making the customer relationship as optimal ...
Crystal Enterprise Architecture
Oct 11, 2002
Deploy and configure your IT infrastructure to meet any business need with Crystal Enterprise. Retain scalability while making the most efficient use of network resources.
Customer-Oriented Rapid Application Development (CoRAD)
Nov 16, 2001
This article discusses a RAD methodology for developing e-commerce applications: customer-oriented RAD (CoRAD), developed by Cambridge Technology Partners.
Cutting Through the Hype: Where Web Services and SOA Are Really Working
Sep 16, 2005
Businesses talk a lot about incorporating web services to save development time, leverage and integrate with legacy systems, and justify ROI by reducing headcount. But are web services improving ROI for most businesses? And where exactly does service-oriented architecture fit into the many complex workflows of manufacturing? Louis Columbus talks about the reality behind the hype.
Cyber Manager or Knowledgeable Leader
Dec 6, 2001
The leap from a database to applied knowledge is ultimately one of the most important tasks of any manager or worker today. James Cortada explains that is why cyber-management is hype while managing the use of information is a reality.
Data Center Architecture and Technologies in the Cloud
Mar 20, 2012
This chapter provides an overview of the architectural principles and infrastructure designs needed to support a new generation of real-time-managed IT service use cases in the data center.
Data Center Design Philosophy
Mar 22, 2002
This sample chapter lays the foundation for addressing challenges of data center design, through a presentation of the more important design issues, priorities, and philosophies.
Data Communications: Use the Right Medium for your Message
Apr 12, 2002
Learn when to use twisted pair cable, satellites, or fiber-optics to get your message across. From economic considerations to bandwidth limitations, here's a guide to your options.
Data Management Alternatives
May 10, 2001
MTS and databases are commonly used to build Internet applications, but they may be overkill for some as you'll see in the Internet discussion group application presented here.
Data Recovery and Private Encryption Keys in EFS
Oct 1, 2000
Windows 2000 expert Bill Boswell talks about data recovery in EFS, especially how to handle private encryption keys used to recover encrypted files.
Datagrams and Multicasting (Part 1)
Jul 6, 2001
Get more performance out of the Internet with datagrams, multicasting, and improved reliability. (Part 1 of 2)

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