James Martin/McGraw-Hill Productivity S.
5 total works
Application Development for Distributed Environments
by Dawna Travis Dewire
Published 1 January 1994
The third volume in the new James Martin/McGraw-Hill Productivity Series, this gives an overview of text management - the maintenance and retrieval of all data that can be stored electronically. This volume features James Martin product reviews of 14 commercial text-management products, including objective assessments of the products and their strengths and limitations. "Text Management" introduces IS professional to new software tools that will transform the creation, organization, maintenance, and dissemination of text-oriented information such as technical and product manuals, policies and procedures, correspondence, market studies, and more. The book focuses on pragmatic issues and commercially available software products, and is designed to familiarize IS professionals with the essential concepts, key implementation strategies, and a wide range of available products.
Developing Mission-Critical Applications in a Client/Server Environment
by Pieter R. Mimno and Dawna Travis Dewire
Published 31 October 1994
This work explains how to deliver effective enterprise-wide client/server applications. It reviews all the current strategic applications development products, as well as tactical applications products such as PowerBuilder. The text offers both operational and technical guidance for transferring applications from mainframes to networks. It identifies likely problems in migration and considers the appropriate solutions for existing systems without requiring premature capital outlay. The book should interest IS managers, CIOs, software engineers, consultants, and system designers and analysts.
The first volume in the new "James Martin/McGraw-Hill Productivity Series" provides a working overview of one of the most important trends in enterprise computing - client/server computing. It offers a complete and up-to-date review of the technologies required to build client/server applications within an open systems environment. Written by a staff member of the James Martin Report, Inc., this volume covers client/server architecture and its components, client/server applications, and detailed reviews of representative tools used to build graphic client/server applications. Detailing the available hardware, software, and applications that are best served by the architecture, the book includes product comparisons that match individual products to the applications for which they're best suited - analyzing the technology in terms of financial and productivity impact.
Vol 4
Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) programming tools apply engineering principles to the development and analysis of software, automating all phases of the software development process and tying it more closely to business strategic operations. The fourth volume in the "James Martin/McGraw-Hill Productivity Series" provides MIS professionals with an up-to-date overview of CASE technology and explains what implementing these automated tools can mean in terms of IS productivity and budgets. The book offers CASE tool product comparisons that weigh the technology and features of each in terms of their financial and productivity impact. To simplify the selection process, the automated tools reviewed in the book are divided into: information engineering for building a repository to create and maintain enterprise, data, and process models; products that support structured diagramming methods and enable use of at least the three basic diagramming types: data flow, control flow, and entity-relationship models; tools that provide structured development features for the systems analyst; and tools able to generate code using a COBOL generator.