Scope covered by the Book

This book is the first one of the series “IT Architecture from A to Z” and a Russian manual, containing and harnessing theoretical knowledge of enterprise architecture, project management, informational security, IT service and audit arrangement and management. The book also considers the order of their practical use, allowing complete provision of organizational needs for building and managing IT architecture and IT infrastructure. Extensive material gives systematic description of the state of the modern IT company and demonstrates the main models and approaches of creating an IT strategy, risk management, IT service control, risk analysis and quality management, IT audits, and integration and interaction of various approaches and methods. The book is for the general public and will be useful to:

•Top-managers, IT curators, CIO’s of the large and middle companies since it provides better understanding of TOGAF based Enterprise Architecture, the IT role and involvement ИТ in business and indicators of financial investments distribution in IT services. Business representatives will be able to understand the general aspects of the functioning of the IT infrastructure, technical terms, the fundamental differences between various architectural solutions, and principles of building and maintenance of technical solutions. The book allows you to create metrics and IT infrastructure effectiveness reports understandable by both parties.

•Heads of IT department, IT architects and middle managers, and project managers who need theoretical basis of IT service management (ITSM) using ITIL recommendations and practices, project integration management (PMI) in IT, Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (CobiT) and information security.

This book is not supposed to be used by small IT infrastructure since the cost of paper is higher than IT requirements. It will also be ineffective for large enterprises with corporate governance, as every direction is likely to be managed by the narrowly focused experts.

Данный текст является ознакомительным фрагментом.