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Summary: Clearly explained management overview
Review: This book is best suited for IT managers whose jobs have removed them from the details of technology, and project managers who have high level technical backgrounds, but are given e-business projects to manager. As such, don't expect to find in-depth details or revelations that would primarily interest the technical specialists who design and implement e-business solutions. If you are among the primary audience, however, this book will get you quickly up-to-speed on the key issues of every facet of the technologies and the challenges of integrating and implementing them to achieve an e-business solution.There are fifteen areas covered, the first two are contained in Part One and cover how to structure and resource an e-business project. While these two areas are somewhat general, they do address specific issues and challenges, which will prepare project managers for some of the realities of an e-business implementation project. In Section Two the project is broken into phases. These phases do not align to project milestones, but to technology areas covering major building blocks found in most e-business solutions. They follow a standard format that cover the key technologies used, and high level details about them. These areas range from publishing systems to web services. Section Three covers supporting technologies using the same format. Here the lower-level infrastructure components are covered, including development approaches, hardware platforms and operating systems, security, networking and open source. After reading this book the quasi- or non-technical manager or PM will understand the key issues and underlying technologies, and will be versed sufficiently in the technology to pose the right questions to their technical staff involved in the actual design, development and implementation.
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