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 65 reviews.
Customer Review: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture is an absolutely indispensable reference - if you're in the business of writing Enterprise Applications. Clearly and articulately presented, with lots of hard-won wisdom and insight - it's more topically relevant than to enterprise applications than the gang of four, etc - and of equal...

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 10 reviews.
Customer Review: The Art of Scalability provides a broad ranging, comprehensive overview of the considerations required to address the challenges of increasing requirements for larger, faster, reliable, and yet low cost Internet applications. The book does not only consider the technical details and conceptual frameworks required to develop a scalab...

Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis (The Enterprise Engineering Series)
by Marc Lankhorst
Average Customer Review: based on 3 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

3-D Home Kit: All You Need to Construct a Model of Your Own Home or Addition (with Booklet "Architecture & Math Workshop Notes")
by Adventure Publications, Dan Reif
Average Customer Review: based on 7 reviews.
Customer Review: This kit does a difficult task admirably – it offers novice designers a clear and understandable path through the complex processes of house design and paper model-building. As a K-12 design educator who uses 3-d Home Kits with my middle school (math and engineering) students, I can tell the creator of this kit has refined the proces...

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 Architecture Good Practices Guide: How to Manage the Enterprise Architecture Practice
by Jaap Schekkerman
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Publication Date: June 2008