Managing the open enterprise.

Enterprise Systems Journal,  August, 1995  by Humenansky, Paul

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The enterprise, once mostly centralized and proprietary, is now distributed and open. The Open Enterprise Environment (OEE) model may retain mainframe-based MVS, but also brings in UNIX, Windows or OS/2. Despite the changes, good systems management is still essential. This is more difficult in an open enterprise, since there are more elements that must be managed and integrated.

There are three approaches to managing an open enterprise system: point solutions, integrated solutions and framework solutions. A point solution uses individual products for specific problems. Although this approach ...

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