CA90s ^{3rd Ed.}

The life of an Information Systems (IS) manager in the 90s is not an easy one. Challenges — and opportunities — abound, such as:

• The complexities of multi-vendor, multi-operating system networked environments
• A legacy of too many nonintegrated applications
• A proliferation of disparate proprietary standards like SAA, NAS, etc.
• A flood of of new technologies and new trends such as open systems, rightsizing, client/server architectures, object orientation, and heterogeneous multi-platform environments

How can IS professionals capitalize on emerging trends and new developments without jeopardizing existing investments in software, hardware and expertize?

Through CA90s: Computing Architecture For The 90s

CA90s is Computer Associates software strategy and design that effectively unifies existing and emerging technologies, architectures and standards, it is based on a unique layered architecture that promotes the sharing of common services and information across mainframe, midrange and desktop computers. CA990s offers IS managers the freedom and flexibility to use any combination of hardware platforms and operating systems to meet their information processing needs. And it continually protects and optimizes IS investments by providing ways to integrate new technology with existing solutions.

CA90s is already supported by the broadest range of software in the world, from system management to application development to business applications. Through CA90s, these superior solutions provide unprecedented levels of integration and automation across multiple hardware platforms.

IS managers can reap the many benefits of CA90s, including dramatic increases in productivity and performance as individual components of the information system work together as a unified whole.

CA90s serves not only as the successful strategy behind Computer Associates ongoing software development, but also as a blueprint for cost-effective software engineering that every IS manager can use for internally developed applications.

This book describes CA90s — the business reasons behind the strategy, the technological foundation of the architecture, and the benefits that CA systems management, application development and business applications software derive from it.

CA90s is the strategy for success in the 90s. And it makes the life of an IS manager a whole lot easier.

• Section I: An Overview Of CA90s
1. The Business Of Information Technology
• Today's Information Challenges
• Overcoming Information Challenges With CA90s
2. CA90s: Computing Architecture For The 90s
• The Architecture
• The Guiding Principles
• Summary
• Section II: The Service Layers
3. User Interface and Visualization Services
• User Interface Management Services
• Graphics Services
• Reporting Services
• Voice Services
• Summary
4. Integration Services
• Database Management Services
• Repository Services
• Event Notification Facility
• Standard Security Facilities
• Application Services
5. Distributed Processing Services
• Cooperative Processing
• Database Server
• Distributed Database
• Common Communication Interface
• Summary
• Section III: The Enterprise Software Solutions
6. Systems Management Software
• The Systems Management Software Challenges
• CA Systems Management Software Meets These Challenges
• Systems Management Workstation
• Automated Production Control
• Automated Storage Management
• Security, Control And Audit
• Performance Management And Accounting
• Data Center Administration
• CA90s And Systems Management Software
7. Application Development Software
• The Application Development Software Challenge
• CA Application Development Software Meets These Challenges
• Analysis, Requirements Specification And Planning
• Maintenance And Enhancement Of Legacy Applications
• CA90s And Application Development Software
• Summary
8. Business Application Software
• The Business Applications Software Challenges
• CA Business Applications Software Meets These Challenges
• Financial Management Software
• Human Resource Management Software
• Manufacturing Management Software
• Distribution Management Software
• Group Productivity Software
• CA90s And Business Applications Software
• Summary
• Conclusion

A good book, even though it is a bit mainframe-centric, but what do you expect from CAs answer to IBMs SAA?. Today, CA refuses to even acknowledge the existance of this book.