Rightsizing for Corporate Survival: An IS Manager's GuideRightsizing is an information systems (IS) philosophy and architecture based on deploying resources where they can do the most good. At a business level, rightsizing presents the opportunity to use information better, faster, and cheaper to meet business objectives. Rightsizing involves the movement of IS away from centralized mainframes or standalone LAN environments to enterprise-wide distributed systems. Several rightsizing technologies are emerging, and this volume provides an overview of Sun Microsystem's strategies and recommended methodology for rightsizing. KEY TOPICS: Covers such topics as peer-to-peer versus client-server computing, system and data access, tools and technologies, open interfaces, graphical user interfaces, how to rightsize, and how to take advantage of today's technologies to position for the future. Includes examples in industry-specific contexts and examples of how Sun itself is implementing rightsizing internally (e.g., how Sun combines its technology expertise with its own business requirements). MARKET: For upper-level management (CEOs, CIOs, and Department/Functional VPs) who have specific objectives and concerns about rightsizing, and for managers who have been given the task of implementing a rightsizing strategy. |
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Rightsizing Technologies | 19 |
Rightsizing Opportunities | 55 |
Economics of Rightsizing | 93 |
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ADCO analysis application development Application Software architecture assess batch business benefits business process re-engineering centralized chargebacks client-server computing client-server environment COBOL communicate components computer system corporate cost reduction data center DBMS decision support desktop distributed environments electronic enable end-users entry application example Flat-file database graphical user interfaces identify illustrated in Figure implementation improve information systems Informix integrated investment mainframe Maintenance migration plan minicomputers Mountain View moving multiple network management objectives operating system organizations Ovum Ltd perform platforms portable problems processors programming project team protocols RDBMS reduce replacing reports requirements result rightsizing efforts Rightsizing Opportunities rightsizing projects Rightsizing Solution RISC Software Maintenance Solaris SPARCserver SPARCstation specific staff standards strategy subtotal Sun Microsystems SunSoft System Costs system management Table task TCP/IP Terminals ToolTalk typically UNIX servers UNIX systems User interface vendors WorldCorp