Enterprise Architecture for Digital Business

تحول دیجیتال در سال‌های اخیر تقریباً ده برابر شتاب گرفته و اکنون هم یک مسیر کسب‌وکاری و هم یک مسیر فناورانه محسوب می‌شود. با این حال، بیشتر وایت‌پیپرها و راهنمایی‌های موجود تنها بر بخش تجاری تمرکز دارند و روش‌های بهینه‌سازی فناوری پشت آن را نادیده می‌گیرند. این راهنما به مدیران ارشد فناوری اطلاعات (CIO)، مدیران IT و معماران سازمانی نشان می‌دهد که چگونه این دو بُعد را به‌طور موفقیت‌آمیز متعادل کنند.

در این کتاب، روندهای فناورانه روز و تغییراتی که برای ساخت یک کسب‌وکار دیجیتال ضروری است بررسی می‌شود، از جمله اینکه معماری سازمانی چگونه باید تکامل یابد تا بتواند کسب‌وکار را حفظ و توسعه دهد. یک CIO که بتواند همزمان تحول دیجیتال و منافع تجاری را مدیریت کند، کمیاب است — و این کتاب راهنمایی ایده‌آل برای مدرن‌سازی فناوری اطلاعات است.

آنچه بررسی خواهید کرد:

• تازه‌ترین روندها و فناوری‌هایی که نیاز به معماری سازمانی دیجیتال را ایجاد می‌کنند
• اجزا، لایه‌ها و مفاهیم جدیدی که چارچوبی برای معماری سازمانی دیجیتال تشکیل می‌دهند
• مهارت‌ها و فناوری‌های لازم برای مدرن‌سازی معماری سازمانی یک کسب‌وکار دیجیتال
• حوزه‌ها و ویژگی‌های یک معماری سازمانی دیجیتال
• نحوه تطبیق فناوری‌های دیجیتال سازمانی با تیم‌های مناسب

Digital transformation has accelerated nearly tenfold in recent years as both a business and technology journey. Yet, most white papers and how-to guides still focus solely on the business side, rather than include methods for optimizing the technology behind it. This handbook shows CIOs, IT directors, and architects how to balance these two concerns successfully.

You’ll explore current technology trends and shifts required to build a digital business, including how enterprise architecture should evolve if it’s to sustain and grow your business. A CIO who can handle digital transformation along with business interests is a rare find. This is the ideal guide to modernizing IT.

You’ll examine:

• The latest trends and technologies driving the need for a digital enterprise architecture
• New components, layers, and concepts that comprise a framework for digital enterprise architecture
• Skills and technologies you need to modernize an enterprise architecture for a digital business
• Domains and characteristics of a digital enterprise architecture
• How to map digital enterprise technologies to the appropriate teams

Why We Wrote This Book

Why, indeed. As a group of leaders in a company most often identified simply with load balancing, it may surprise you to learn that F5 has been in the business of helping enterprises design, implement, optimize, and secure enterprise architecture for 25 years.

From its earliest role as a load balancer to securing, delivering, and distributing applications today, F5 has always been an integral partner with business and IT on the topic of architecture. From securing infrastructure against volumetric attacks, to defending against application attacks, to protecting a business against fraud, F5 is intimately familiar with the inner workings of enterprise architectures in every industry across the globe. In its lengthy history, F5 has also had the privilege of partnering closely with many application providers. These partnerships have been more than strategic, sales-oriented engagements. F5 has spent considerable effort to understand at a deep, technical level how these applications are deployed, delivered, and integrated with other applications and with the business itself.

Even more relevant than its technology portfolio are the leaders, technologists, architects, and strategists who have come together at F5. Hailing from wide-ranging industries—financial services, social networks, transportation, insurance, and other technology firms—the authors have expertise in every layer of the IT and digital business stack. Together, with our deep understanding of technology, we believe that we are uniquely positioned to analyze today’s trends and deliver the insight necessary to identify and articulate the sweeping changes they will have on enterprise architecture.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Form Follows Function

Chapter 2. An Infrastructure Renaissance

Chapter 3. From Marathon to Messaging

Chapter 4. Operational Data Is the New Oil

Chapter 5. Moving Beyond “Fight or Flight”

Chapter 6. Observability and Automation

Chapter 7. The Need for Speed

About the Author

Geng Lin is executive vice president and chief technology officer at F5. He is responsible for leading technology strategy, product evolution, and critical innovations for the company.

Lin is an industry-leading expert in distributed systems, software defined infrastructure, and cloud services. He is a contributing author of two books on cloud and data-intensive computing. He has published many technical papers and holds nine US patents.

Lori MacVittie is a technologist and principal technical evangelist in F5’s Office of the CTO with an emphasis on emerging architectures and technologies including cloud and edge computing, digital transformation, automation and orchestration, microservices, and application delivery. MacVittie has over 25 years of industry experience spanning application development, IT architecture, and network and systems operation.

Prior to joining F5, MacVittie was an award-winning technology editor at Network Computing Magazine. As an enterprise architect, she drove architectural efforts to lead a global transportation and logistics firm into the Internet age, and has developed software for Nokia phones, Autodesk, and regional telecommunications firms. She coauthored the CADD profile for ANSI NCITS 320-1998 and holds a US patent for application delivery provisioning. MacVittie is a contributing author of books on cloud security and object-oriented development and has authored books on application security and XAML.