Architecture

Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution
by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, David Robertson
Average Customer Review: based on 48 reviews.
Customer Review: "Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a foundation for business execution" presents a compelling case for adopting, advancing, and maturing Enterprise Architecture as a key component in the business strategy. This tightly-written book provides actionable guidance without being overly prescriptive. Jeanne Ross, Peter Weil, a...

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
by Martin Fowler
Average Customer Review: based on 68 reviews.
Customer Review: This is required reading if you are doing enterprise development. Even for it's age, POEAA is still THE foundation of the patterns that will be used daily. Some of the material, particularly the object-relational mapping patterns, will be a little to low-level to actually be practically useful (considering the existing frameworks av...

The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise
by Martin L. Abbott, Michael T. Fisher
Average Customer Review: based on 12 reviews.
Customer Review: The Art of Scalability is an excellent book, written by some guys that know A LOT about scaling technology and organizations. These were the guys that scaled the infrastructure at eBay to support massive growth in the late 90s through the mid 2000s. The book focuses on people, process, and technology - ALL of which are critical to b...

Enterprise Architecture Planning: Developing a Blueprint for Data, Applications, and Technology
by Steven H. Spewak
Average Customer Review: based on 8 reviews.
Customer Review: I purchased this book with it was first published and it greatly influenced my thinking and has continued to do so to this day. There is a large caveat I want to share before continuing - be careful of the Zachman Framework because if you do base your enterprise architecture on it you will soon discover that making changes is a tedio...

An Introduction To Enterprise Architecture: Second Edition
by Scott Bernard
Average Customer Review: based on 11 reviews.
Customer Review: "Introduction to Enterprise Architecture" is a very good text for a student or experienced professional to start to understand this very complex topic. The more useful aspect of the book is how it shows you the required elements of any Enterprise Architecture, and how they fit together. That is the most important thing for any Enter...

The Art of Enterprise Information Architecture: A Systems-Based Approach for Unlocking Business Insight
by Mario Godinez, Eberhard Hechler, Klaus Koenig, Steve Lockwood, Martin Oberhofer, Michael Schroeck
Average Customer Review: based on 1 review.
Customer Review: The Art of Enterprise Architecture: A Systems-Based Approach for Unlocking Business Insight provides a winning survey of how to develop Enterprise Information Architecture from concept to operations. Any technical IT library will find this packed with tips on implementation, showing how to apply architecture basics to IT systems. Any ...

Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis (The Enterprise Engineering Series)
by Marc Lankhorst
Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews.
Customer Review: This is first in its kind book that tackles enterprise architecture modeling with a holistic approach. Book presents a unified modeling approach for enterprise architecture and simplifies the relationship between architecture domains with a simple Meta model. It also deals with communication and analysis aspect nicely. This does not ...

Building Enterprise Information Architectures: Reengineering Information Systems
by Melissa Cook, Hewlett-Packard Professional Books
Average Customer Review: based on 11 reviews.
Customer Review: Ms. Cook takes a no-nonsense approach to building an enterprise architecture that puts business requirements first. She starts this excellent book with a quick history, setting information architecture into a context. This is followed by addressing the hard part of architecture: overcoming political resistance and tackling the thorn...

Enterprise Security Architecture: A Business-Driven Approach
by John Sherwood, Andrew Clark, David Lynas
Average Customer Review: based on 3 reviews.
Customer Review: 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 fir...

Design Plus Enterprise 2nd Edition: Seeking a New Reality in Architecture and Design
by James P Cramer
Average Customer Review: based on 2 reviews.
Customer Review: Jim Cramer has performed an inportant and admirable service to the design world. While clearly addressing the business interests of architects and designers, he not only avoids compromising their professional integrity -- he shows how, at the same time, they can answer their higher callings to create architecture that is more than be...