Client/Server Computing: Killing the Mainframe Dinosaur and Slashing Runaway Mis Costs - Softcover

Gagliardi, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132907844 ISBN 13: 9780132907842

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1993

Synopsis

Many Fortune 500 companies are cutting their information technology costs in half by switching from restrictive, outdated mainframes to Client/Server systems. Gary Gagliardi has helped more than 1,000 sites make this transition. In Client/Server systems, he offers the broader understanding of computers and computer issues you need to take a more direct role in information management decisions. Addressing trends in business and computing, Gagliardi presents the key issues for management information systems in non-technical terms, supported by extensive graphics. Topics include cost-effective corporate computing; corporate computing in transition; the move to standards and open systems; re-engineering applications using new technology; the evolution of financial and management accounting; continual quality improvement; and the anatomy of a mainframe replacement project.

About this title

From the Publisher

This book is about replacing the main-frame computer for corporate transaction processing, a process called "computer downsizing." The focus of the book is on determining the goals to be achieved by the downsizing process. It addresses all the risks of downsizing: technical risks, operational risks, economic and political risks. It shows how to effectively cope with all of them.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0132907844
• ISBN 13: 9780132907842
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222