Designing Enterprise Client/server Systems

Discover how to deliver scalable, business-driven systems that really will work within your business environment - and really can adapt to change. In this complete guide for executives, project managers, analysts, and implementors, you'll learn specific decision criteria for making hardware, software, and implementation decisions; proven solutions for managing cross-functional, distributed systems development; event-based methods for defining requirements that map directly to a distributed architecture; detailed guidelines for partitioning data and processing across processors and locations; and powerful techniques for performing traffic analysis before you write one line of code. If you're an executive, this book is structured to give you the critical answers you need - fast. If you're a project manager, you'll find detailed design objectives, scenarios, and deliverables. And if you're an implementor, you'll find a comprehensive, end-to-end case study showing exactly how to transform models into robust, real-world systems.