By
Charles Breakfield, MBA, MCSE, Engineering Solutions Manager, Nortel Networks.
Roxanne Burkey, MBA, Nortel Networks Senior Systems Engineer.
Description
Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades is the perfect book for technology managers who want a rational guide to evaluating the business
aspects of various possible technical solutions. Enterprises today are in the middle of the R&D race for technology leadership, with
providers who increasingly need to create markets for new technologies while shortening development, implementation, and life cycles.
The cost for the current tempo of technology life cycles is endless change-management controls, organizational chaos, production use
of high-risk beta products, and greater potential for failure of existing systems during migration.
Burkey and Breakfield help you
answer questions such as, "Is the only solution open to me spending more that the industry average in order to succeed?" and "What are
the warning signs that tell me to pass on a particular product offering?" as well as "How can my organization avoid the 'technical death
marches' typical of the industry?" This book will take the confusion out of when to make shifts in your systems and help you evaluate
the value proposition of these technology changes.
Audience:
Data managers, enterprise CIOs/CEOs; students, technology integrators/developers, consultants
