OMG Announces 'Information Systems Transformation: Architecture-Driven Modernization Case Studies' New From OMG Press

Book by William Ulrich and Philip Newcomb is published by OMG Press Partner Morgan Kaufmann

NEEDHAM, Mass., April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- OMG™ today announced the availability of a new book from the OMG Press that provides case studies and expert advice to help businesses deliver information systems transformation solutions. Written by William Ulrich and Philip Newcomb, Information Systems Transformation: Architecture-Driven Modernization Case Studies is available for purchase through OMG's Reading Room at http://www.omg.org/technology/readingroom/index.htm.

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Information Systems Transformation: Architecture-Driven Modernization Case Studies, a new book by William Ulrich and Philip Newcomb, provides a practical guide to organizations seeking ways to understand and modernize existing systems as part of their information management strategies. It includes an introduction to ADM disciplines and standards, including alignment with business architecture, as well as a series of scenarios outlining how ADM is applied to various initiatives. Ten chapters, containing in-depth, modernization case studies, distills the theory and delineates principles, processes, and best practices for every industry, ensuring the book's leading position as a reference text for all of those organizations relying on complex software systems to maintain their economic, competitive and operational viability.

Key Features:

• Acts as a one-stop shopping reference and complete guide for implementing various modernization models including core concepts, common scenarios, and a guide for getting started.
• Concepts are illustrated with real-life examples from various modernization projects, allowing you to immediately apply tested solutions and see results.
• Ten chapters containing in-depth modernization case studies, covering multiple platforms, industries and government agencies from four different countries.

"Ulrich and Newcomb's book offers a comprehensive examination of the challenges of growing software-intensive systems. Every system has an architecture, but as the authors explain, it is only by continuous, intentional architectural transformation that one can attend to costs while simultaneously creating a mechanism wherein innovation may flourish." – Grady Booch, IBM Fellow & Chief Scientist, Software Engineering in IBM Research

"Nobody knows the modernization landscape better than Ulrich and Newcomb, and this in-depth, practical guide is indispensable to planners and practitioners faced with the legacy modernization challenge. This book explains how to plan, develop and manage modernization from every angle." – Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO, OMG.

About the Authors:

William M. Ulrich is President of Tactical Strategy Group, Inc. and a management consultant. Mr. Ulrich has been in the modernization field since 1980 and continues to serve as a strategic advisor on business and IT transformation projects for corporations and government agencies. In 2005, Mr. Ulrich was awarded the Keeping America Strong Award for his work in information systems modernization. He is Co-Chair of the OMG Architecture-Driven Modernization Task Force and the OMG Business Architecture Special Interest Group, Editorial Director of the Business Architecture Institute, and author of Legacy Systems: Transformation Strategies.  

Philip H. Newcomb is Founder and CEO of The Software Revolution, Incorporated (TSRI) and creator of TSRI's acclaimed architecture-driven modernization services and toolset JANUS™. He is coauthor of Reverse Engineering (Kluwer 1996) with Linda Wills, Coeditor of the 2nd Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (IEEE 1995) with Elliot Chikofsky and principal author of the Abstract Syntax Tree Metamodeling Specification (OMG Specification 2009). With more than 35 publications and 70 successfully completed information system modernization projects he is a recognized leader in the application of artificial intelligence, automatic programming and formal methods to industrial-scale software modernization.

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