Systems integration—the enterprise-wide integration of computer applications—offers an enormous opportunity for U.S. firms to capitalize on their strengths in such areas as complex software, networking, and management.
In this book, industry leaders, university researchers, and government policymakers discuss what systems integration is, its importance and prospects for growth, why it is expected to define the characteristics of computerization for decades to come, and why the United States is perceived to have a strong competitive advantage.
- KEEPING THE U.S. COMPUTER INDUSTRY COMPETITIVE: SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Executive Summary
- 1 Overview
- EVOLUTION OF A U.S. BUSINESS CONCEPT
- STATUS OF THE U.S. INDUSTRY
- Global Prospects
- Sources of U.S. Advantage
- CONVERGING TECHNOLOGY: A DRIVING FORCE
- A NETWORKED SOCIETY: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
- NOTES
- 2 Applications of Integrated Systems: Evolution in Concept and Practice
- MOTIVATIONS FOR SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
- DISTRIBUTED NETWORKED COMPUTING: EVOLUTION IN UNDERSTANDING
- SYSTEMS INTEGRATION AS "PROCESS INNOVATION"
- ASSIMILATING INFORMATION AND ENABLING PEOPLE
- ACHIEVING EFFECTIVE SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
- Understanding the Organization and the Application Area
- Recognizing Essential Features of Information Systems
- System Architecture
- Data Communication Capabilities
- Security
- Network Management and Reliability
- Ease of Use and Effective Presentation of Information
- ISSUES AND RESEARCH NEEDS
- Adapting the Installed Base of Information Technology
- Software Design, Development, and Reuse
- Methodologies to Guide Organizational Change
- Standardization
- Data Communication Capabilities
- Personnel Needs
- NOTES
- 3 Enabling Technology: Communications and Software
- COMMUNICATIONS SURVEY
- Integrated Services Digital Network Service
- Toward Broadband Networks
- Whither OSI?
- Integrating Communications Media
- SOFTWARE
- Measures of Complexity and Performance
- Software Architecture
- Software Standards
- Converging Software Interests
- APPENDIX: STANDARDS MAKING AT A GLANCE
- NOTES
- 4 The Next Tier: Building Systems of Systems
- BROADENING PERSPECTIVE
- SYSTEMS AS COMPONENTS
- Integratable Components
- Simplicity, Transparency, and Functionality
- Selectable Speed, Reliability, and Security
- Consistent Architecture and Efficient Methods for Distributed Development of Systems
- Network Intelligence
- Effective Presentation of Information
- AN INDUSTRY OF INDUSTRIES
- SHOULD THE MARKET DECIDE?
- COMMUNICATIONS: A "HALF-REGULATED" INDUSTRY
- THE HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM: A STEP TOWARD AN ADVANCED NATIONWIDE INFORMATION NETWORK
- NOTES
- 5 Prerequisites for Progress
- MAKING STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS
- The Need for Government Leadership
- Applications, Demonstrations, and Incentives
- ATTENDING TO STANDARDS
- ENHANCING THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES
- PURSUING ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
- Systems Integration as a Science and Engineering Discipline
- Computing Hardware and Software Capabilities
- Re-engineering and Building on the Installed Base of Technology
- ATTENDING TO HUMAN ELEMENTS
- PROVIDING FOR SECURITY AND PRIVACY
- DEVELOPING A SHARED VISION OF THE INFORMATION AGE
- NOTES
- Appendixes
- Appendix A Colloquium Program
- Appendix B Colloquium Participants
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