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"There is a paradigm shift happening in the Enterprise Information Systems space. Information Technology is continually changing, and you'd be forgiven for thinking that "paradigm shift" is overstating things, but please read on. From the age of punched cards through to today's internet driven systems, one thing has stayed fairly constant: software vendors and their implementors have been driving the Enterprise IT industry. This is changing. It will be hard to see initially, but it is happening already in some more prescient organizations. As organizations realize they can take control of their own destiny by adopting data-centric principles, they will see their dependency on application software wither. The cost of running internal information systems will drop at least ten-fold, and the cost of integrating them will drop even more rapidly. This will decimate the $400 billion/ year application software industry and the $400 billion / year systems integration industry. The benefit will accrue to the buyers, and will accrue earliest to the first movers. This is a major sea change. As we will describe within, it must be driven by customers. This volume is the existence proof, and the executives guide to what needs to be done. The two companion volumes (coming soon) will aid the designers and developers in making this new generations of systems"-- Provided by publisher

Know what's causing application development waste so you can turn the tide.This is the book your Systems Integrator and your Application Software vendor don't want you to read. Enterprise IT (Information Technology) is a $3.8 trillion per year industry worldwide. Most of it is waste.We've grown used to projects costing tens of millions or even billions of dollars, and routinely running over budget and schedule many times over. These overages in both time and money are almost all wasted resources. However, the waste is hard to see, after being so marbled through all the products, processes, and guiding principles. That is what this book is about. We must see, understand, and agree about the problem before we can take coordinated action to address it.The trajectory of this book is as

Semantics in Business Systems begins with a description of what semantics are and how they affect business systems. It examines four main aspects of the application of semantics to systems, specifically: How do we infer meaning from unstructured information, how do application systems make meaning as they operate, how do practitioners uncover meaning in business settings, and how do we understand and communicate what we have deduced? This book illustrates how this applies to the future of application system development, especially how it informs and affects Web services and business rule- based approaches, and how semantics will play out with XML and the semantic Web. The book also contains a quick reference guide to related terms and technologies. It is part of Morgan Kaufmann's series of Savvy Manager's Guides.